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24/07/2026

What if investing in nature was one of the smartest economic decisions we could make right now. New RSPB research with eftec shows that correcting our historic underinvestment in nature and investing £5 to £6 billion a year in nature recovery could support around £80 billion of new economic output over ten years.

That includes thousands of jobs in nature restoration and a huge range of public goods from healthier ecosystems and biodiversity to better physical and mental health for people. This is a powerful case for seeing climate and nature action as a driver of economic growth and wellbeing rather than a cost.

Watch the full ClimateGenn interview to learn more about the RSPB and BTO report on climate risks to UK seabirds:
Genn page: https://genn.cc/new-rspb-bto-report-climate-change-risks-wipe-out-of-80-of-uks-seabirds-by-2050/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5yjCotPug

24/07/2026

We keep being told that a real response to the climate emergency means we will all be poorer and colder and that we simply cannot afford it. Mike Berners‑Lee calls this out as disinformation and reminds us that the transition is entirely doable and full of opportunity.

It is time to move past the fake narratives and build a widespread understanding that a fair, fast climate transition can improve lives, strengthen our economy and increase resilience.

Watch the full ClimateGenn interview with Mike Berners‑Lee and Nick Breeze here:
Genn page: https://genn.cc/mike-berners-lee-neb/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ziP8tPH1dDc
Learn more about the National Emergency Briefing: https://nebriefing.org

23/07/2026

Wake up to the climate emergency.

In a room of twelve hundred people not one person thought the climate risk had been exaggerated. Mike Berners Lee says we all get it we just need to snap out of the carry on as normal rut and wake up.

In this Genn interview Mike explains why the National Emergency Briefing is treating climate and nature as a national emergency and what responding at the right scale could look and feel like.

Watch the full interview here: https://genn.cc/mike-berners-lee-neb/
Or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ziP8tPH1dDc
Find out more about the National Emergency Briefing: https://nebriefing.org

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22/07/2026

Mike Berners-Lee interview with Nick Breeze on the Genn Climate Podcast: "the reality is that the natural ecosystems and the human ecosystems are under incredible pressure and this is largely what the national emergency briefing's about You know from the information you have when you listen to all these briefings from a whole range of experts that you've pulled together how serious is the threat to th- to things like the UK food security or biodiversity Yeah Okay So uh that threat is very serious and we don't talk about it enough and the government hasn't so far been helping the UK to understand the seriousness of that threat So up to the current point and we're hoping this is gonna change in the short term Up to the current there's been a very distinct difference of approach I would say it looks as though, the government has broadly taken the view this stuff is too The ... The public can't deal with it. It's just too much negative messaging

Watch full interview here: https://genn.cc/mike-berners-lee-neb/

Or on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/ziP8tPH1dDc

Visit National Emergency briefing Website: https://nebriefing.org

21/07/2026

Mike Berners-Lee interview with Nick Breeze on the Genn Climate Podcast: "it's not surprising What's what's kind of so frustrating about it is it's really not surprising that if you we broadly speaking as a global community ignore the crystal clear science on climate change for decade after decade and just carry on emitting every year a bit more than we emitted the year before in other words accelerating into the problem despite the science it's really not surprising that it's coming round to bite us now are we ready for it Um no we're absolutely not So lots of our infrastructure in the UK you know dams and all sorts of things that you know were built over 100 years ago with a view to withstanding what was then a one in 1,000 year event And those one in 1,000 year uh events now stand a chance of sort of several percent every year of you know of happening So we're at we're totally not ready"

Watch full interview here: https://genn.cc/mike-berners-lee-neb/

Or on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/ziP8tPH1dDc

Visit National Emergency briefing Website: https://nebriefing.org

20/07/2026

We are not ready for what is already unfolding.

In this National Emergency Briefing interview, Mike Berners-Lee explains why the UK and the wider world are heading into a climate and nature emergency, why our food and national security are at risk, and what urgent action now looks like.

If you want clear, trusted information and a sense of real agency, this conversation is for you. Watch the full interview here:
https://youtu.be/ziP8tPH1dDc

Join the growing National Emergency Briefing movement and help push this into the mainstream.

15/07/2026

Rafe Pomerance spent nearly fifty years trying to warn the world about climate change. In one of his last interviews, recorded in Cambridge in summer 2025, he was still fighting to get people to listen — this time with a bold new idea: a global limit on sea-level rise. Rafe passed away in May 2026. Watch/read the full interview 🔗 https://youtu.be/sm_ptOEWGl4

09/07/2026

Climate change is not a future problem for UK birds. It is happening right now.

In this new interview, RSPB experts Dr Simone Mordue and Bethany Chamberlain explain how storms, heatwaves and seasonal mismatches are already hitting puffins, razorbills, cuckoos and pied flycatchers. Without action we could lose 70 to 80 percent of some seabird species by 2050. But investing 5 to 6 billion pounds a year in nature recovery could generate 80 billion pounds in economic output over a decade.

Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/Lh5yjCotPug

28/06/2026

Roger Hallam wrote his new book, Su***de: The Political and Legal Implications of Endless Mass Death, while serving a prison sentence for climate protest. In this ClimateGen interview, he argues that the climate crisis is not a failure of information or technology — it is the logical endpoint of a ruling class ideology that he calls a "su***de project."

Drawing on the British insurance industry's projection that four billion people could die as a result of climate breakdown, Hallam dismantles what he sees as the deliberate statistical obfuscation of the climate industry — including the use of 20-year temperature averages that obscure how close we already are to 2°C.

He argues that we will likely hit two degrees Celsius between 2035 and 2038, that revolutions are now inevitable and that the real question is whether they take a fascist or democratic form.

He also makes the case for two paths toward survival: sortition-based citizens' assemblies and a return to virtue ethics — what he calls a re-engagement with what it means to live a good life.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/Wia67Vbwfmk

Follow Roger Hallam: YouTube | Instagram | LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/roger-hallam

04/06/2026

What happens when disinformation stops being about what people believe and starts shaping how they think? That is cognitive warfare.

On the latest Climate Genn episode, Professor Chad Briggs unpacks The Gorgon Trap: a model showing how white noise (floods of disinformation), black noise (the removal of trusted information) and pattern injection (feeding people a new false narrative) combine to trap us in a spiral of paralysis and bad decisions.

Briggs ties it all back to climate politics, the Ukraine war and the breakdown of institutional trust. And he has clear answers on how to fight back too.

Full interview: https://youtu.be/A0KSzOodz-E

Read the full paper and show notes: https://genn.cc/chad-briggs-cognitive-warfare/

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