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What Can Criminal Psychology Teach Us About Climate Change? With Julia Shaw

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Can criminal psychology offer us a new way to think about and combat climate change? In this episode, criminal psychologist Julia Shaw sits down with physicist and broadcaster Helen Czerski to offer a compelling new framework to understand environmental crime. While big structural issues often cloud political progress on climate action, Shaw takes a more granular approach. In conversation with Czerski, she draws on her new book Green Crime to illuminate the minds of those behind some of the world’s most devastating environmental scandals - from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to Dieselgate and the shadowy wildlife trade in Shuidong. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. A bit of a different thing going on this week. You've been immature and you've lied. And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gas-right me. I was trying to manipulate you. Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. I know, I'd be like, are you joking? I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has stuck.

0:24.1

Someone that has stuck. chucking their clothes out of the window. I know, I'd be like, are you joking? I don't know.

0:21.6

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:25.2

Right.

0:26.4

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.2

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.

0:34.3

I'm producer, Mia Serenti.

0:36.9

Can criminal psychology offer us a new way to think about

0:40.3

and combat climate change? In this episode, criminal psychologist Julia Shaw sits down with

0:46.4

physicist and broadcaster Helen Chersky to offer a compelling new framework to understand

0:51.5

environmental crime. While big structural issues often cloud political progress on

0:56.7

climate action, sure takes a more granular approach. In conversation with Chersky, she draws on her new book,

1:03.8

Green Crime, to illuminate the minds of those behind some of the world's most devastating environmental

1:09.0

scandals. Let's join our host, Helen Chersky,

1:11.7

now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Helen Cheresky. And our guest for today is

1:19.0

Julia Shaw. She's a criminal psychologist. She's worked as an expert witness. She gives talks all around the

1:24.9

world. And she's worked as a lecturer and researcher at various universities. She is a prolific writer. She gives talks all around the world and she's worked as lecturer and researcher at

1:27.6

various universities. She is a prolific writer. She is the author of three past books, the

1:33.4

memory, illusion, making evil and by. But today we are here to talk about her new book,

1:38.6

which is this one, Green Crime, which is an investigation into the criminals associated with climate destruction,

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