Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

I'm Nadia Idol and I'm joined as usual by my friends Keir Milvern.

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And Jeremy Gilbert.

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And in today's episode we will be talking about ecology.

So guys, why are we discussing ecology at this moment in time?

This is part of our long-running series about the different political formations that the UK left

has taken up over the last six months or so, or the changes that have taken place in the UK left.

So we did one,

an episode on parties, and then talked about your party, the new left formation, includes

Jeremy Corbyn and Sarah Sultana. Then we talked about the concept of the mainstream, and then

the new faction within the Labour Party called Mainstream. And we're continuing that theme by talking about ecology, and then we'll do a microdose and talk

about the Green Party, which is led by Zach Polanski.

As a nice sort of added bonus to that, I think that the idea of thinking ecologically,

or thinking about the left ecologically or thinking about the left as an

ecosystem is actually a really useful way of talking about this situation, the reason that we wanted

to do all of this series on political formations, because perhaps thinking about the left as an

ecosystem is a way to piece these things together or the way to think our way through this problem

in which the UK left is split between different organisations and we need to think about how

they relate to each other. So that's a nice reason to talk about ecology. There's also like

we'd probably go into the history of ecological thinking and where it comes from.

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