The 300-350 Show: Arctic Special - Part Two
First Broadcast: 23 July 2009
Featuring:
- Jess Worth (New Internationalist)
- Robert Thompson (ANWR activist)
The second of two episodes featuring Jess Worth – a co-editor of New Internationalist - who has recently finished editing an issue of the magazine which takes an in-depth look at the Arctic from the perspective of its indigenous peoples and climate change.
This week, we look at the historic Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change and its implications for the UN climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of the year; the Arctic’s central position in the climate tipping point story; and the rush to exploit the fossil fuel resources in the Arctic opened up by the sea ice melt. We also hear from Vietnam vet and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge campaigner, Robert Thompson, about the effect an oil spill would have and about the oil company tactic of bribery that has attempted to split and buy-out local opposition to oil drilling.
New Internationalist – Arctic Issue
www.newint.org/issues/current
Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL)
www.ienearth.org/redoil.html
Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change
www.indigenoussummit.com
The Anchorage Declaration
www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/content/declaration.html
Summit press release
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/unu-ipa041309.php
Antarctic Environmental Protocol (prohibits commercial exploration of mineral resources)
www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/geopolitical/environmental_issues/environmental_protocol.php
Costing the Earth – Antarctic Treaty (BBC Radio 4, 9 April 2009)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhp5g
Hillary Clinton - Antarctic Treaty 50th Anniversary speech
http://hillaryunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-the-antarctic-treaty
International Polar Year (IPY) “State of Polar Research” report (Feb 2009)
http://ipy.arcticportal.org/images/uploads/IPY_State_of_Polar_Research_EN_web.pdf
IPY Report press release (Feb 2009)
http://ipy.arcticportal.org/images/uploads/ipy-pr-en.pdf
Extreme Ice Survey
www.extremeicesurvey.org
This programme includes two short extracts from the original soundtrack to “Dutch Harbour – where the sea breaks its back” performed by The Boxhead Ensemble (Atavistic, 1997).