Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Planet B. Everything Must Change. I'm Dali Agabriel.

This episode features an extended edition of our interview with London-based Climate and

Global Justice Activist, Asad Raymond. You may have heard snippet to this interview

in our documentary about migration and climate breakdown. If you haven't, make sure

you check that out on the Navara Meteor podcast feed. Before we get started, a reminder

that you can order a free copy of perspectives on a global Green New Deal, the illustrated

book on which this series is based at www.globalhiphongnd.com Hi, I'm Asad Raymond, Executive

Director at War on Want, based in East London. Thank you so much, Asad, for joining us and

we're really excited to have this conversation with you today as part of our perspectives

on a global Green New Deal podcast. When climate breakdown is addressed in the UK mainstream

media, it's often divorced from its impact on people, particularly people in the global

south. What is your experience of how climate is covered in the media and how does this

coverage neglect issues like climate linked displacement?

I think first point about media coverage is to recognise, whilst very recently we've

seen our television screen filled with images of floods, fires around the world. Climate

impacts have been occurring for decades in the global south and have made the mainstream

media. Secondly, obviously for a long time, the frames that the media chose to talk and

discuss climate change, either invisibleised people of the global south or if they were

visible, of course, left them as passive people with no agency within that. Many of us

have critiqued for a long time the dominant narrative in the media around climate change,

which was either white polar bears, white icebergs or it was all about change of light bulb

and plastic straws. In that, the biggest story of how the climate crisis, who was to blame,

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