Climate activist ROSIE HAMPTON (Climate Solutions For Realists miniseries Part 4) #615
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is part 4 of an April-long miniseries curated by Pip entitled 'Climate Solutions For Realists'.
Our fourth guest is climate activist ROSIE HAMPTON.
Hopefully by now, if you've caught all four of the episodes in this miniseries (which will have slotted in seamlessly into your regularly scheduled listening), you'll have heard about how climate action - while not the most uplifting subject - can be a very positive and accessible universe to engage with. At times of course the whole subject can seem intimidating as, for sure, individually we can't solve this one. BUT - when we work together and realise the powers we do have, and work with what we can in the realms of our imediate surroundings first, there is a huge amount to be positive and hopeful for. This episode with Rosie will surely add to that feeling, and among so much more you'll hear how she found herself in this area and how career paths merged and blended, how to work with fossil fuel companies in a way which can make things better for the world in general as well as the employees, the idea of death by a million paper cuts when it comes to greedy and careless corporations, being strategic with movements and working with available skills and potential, the many shades of community action, and how ultimately we all get better through linking in our communities. As always, get a notebook or open the notes app, you'll do well to scribble some bits down!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 615. And it's episode four of our climate solutions for realist series. We've been chatting all month about the climate crisis and it's been amazing. You lot have been amazing. The guests have been amazing. It's all just been amazing. If you tuned in last week, |
| 0:22.6 | you might have heard me ask Ereba about class, about class in this fight for climate solutions, |
| 0:31.4 | because it occurred to me that everyone I talked to has been amazing, but the more I looked at |
| 0:36.5 | climate activism and the criticism |
| 0:38.6 | that sometimes just up oil get or Greenpeace get is that, yeah, it's a lot of middle class |
| 0:43.2 | people just kind of with disposable incomes. And it's like, well, that's valid. That's fair. |
| 0:48.2 | That's a good target because those are the people who have that money and can invest on the financial side to make a difference. |
| 0:57.0 | But as Areba highlighted, it's the working classes who are affected first and most brutally by the climate crisis, |
| 1:05.0 | by the results of fossil fuels of everything else. |
| 1:09.5 | So I wanted to talk to someone who was focused in that area. |
| 1:12.9 | And I was put in touch with Rosie Hampton, who works with Friends of the Earth, Scotland, and a |
| 1:19.0 | number of other areas, to talk about working class activism. And by that, I mean both the activism |
| 1:25.6 | of working class people, but also activism that's |
| 1:28.3 | aimed at working class people, that's talking to working class people about their needs |
| 1:33.5 | and their struggles. And this was such a good conversation. I will tell you now, after we |
| 1:39.9 | finished, I thought, man, I was weirdly, softly spoken in this episode. I will tell you, |
| 1:48.8 | I'd travelled all the way up to Glasgow to do some location scouting, but I went straight, |
| 1:54.1 | so basically I went straight from Essex to Rosie's flat to get into this conversation. So I was |
| 2:00.3 | probably a bit spaced out, |
| 2:01.9 | but boy, was this the perfect antidote, |
| 2:04.0 | because it was an amazing conversation |
| 2:05.5 | with an amazing human that I felt so lucky to meet. |
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