76. Burn Wild: How far is too far to save the planet?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Bad People, producer and journalist Georgia Catt speaks to Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen about her new BBC podcast, Burn Wild. Georgia tells Julia and Sofie the story of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group of radical underground environmentalists known as ‘elves’ and together they examine how a movement that never killed anyone became the FBI’s number one domestic terror threat. Should we ditch the term ‘eco-terrorism’ and how far can we go to stop the planet from burning? CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Simona Rata Editors: Anna Lacey and Martin Smith Music: Matt Chandler Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC

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0:00.0	Ever wondered what the world's wealthiest people did to get so ridiculously rich?
0:05.5	Our podcast Good Bad Billionaire takes one billionaire at a time and explains exactly how they made their money.
0:11.9	And then we decide if they are actually good, bad or just plain wealthy.
0:15.5	So if you want to know if Rihanna is as much of a bad guy as she claims,
0:19.2	or what Jeff Bezos really did to become the first person in history to pocket a hundred billion dollars,
0:24.6	listen to Good Bad Billionaire with me, Simon Jack, and me, Zingsing.
0:28.5	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:36.7	Three, two, one.
0:38.5	What's the most eco-friendly thing that you do regularly?
0:42.5	Every single day, I make a conscious decision not to have kids.
0:47.6	What about you?
0:49.4	Same. Also, for about a year, I've been buying any new clothes that I want or need from charity shops.
0:54.7	And it's sort of a way to make myself feel ethically superior.
0:57.3	Well, the real eco problem is my lifestyle where I regularly fly places.
1:02.3	But I don't want to change that, so... Sure.
1:04.4	Charity shops.
1:05.3	Georgia, what about you?
1:06.8	Got tiny gardens overstating, a tiny bit of kind of scrappy land.
1:12.3	Near our house that we plant stuff in.
1:14.8	And that makes me feel good watching that stuff grow and thinking that's good for the environment.
1:19.6	Nice. So like one salad a year, and you're like tick, didn't it?
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