The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast

Another meandering, unscripted, real discussion, and authentic opinions, as hosts Stuart and William, delve into a listener question, from Yvette, in Marston, Oxford, England. "My view [Yvette's] is we need to prioritize relationships when building local and international links. I'd be intrigued to see where you go with this idea in your debates and conversations on this podcast. You always go off the beaten track in your discussions, and come up with some interesting and at times, pleasingly odd ideas, keep it up guys!". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to examine, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

Authentic views and opinions, in another wide ranging, unscripted, real discussion. As hosts Stuart and William, delve into a listener question, this time, from Aleksei in Russia. "Food brings us together, culturally and practically. It offers a nutritional life, and a community life, helping the most vulnerable. It brings the haves and have nots together, with emotions wrapped up in food too. Is food security really a big benefit to combatting the ecological breakdown we face, when we already produce enough food to feed the entire planet? Or are our leaders, policy makers, and news media, in cahoots in selling us a different narrative? Instilling international fear in us about food shortages, and getting us fighting and waring. Is this all about divide and conquer?". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to examine, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

Welcome to another unscripted meandering real discussion, bordering on a debate . Stretch your thinking with hosts Stuart and William, as they delve into a listener question, from Roisin from London, England. "You [Stuart], were motivated to be an activist through anger in the early 1980s, do you see history repeating itself?". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to examine, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

Authentic views, in another meandering conversation, from hosts Stuart and William, who examine a listener question, from Alvaro in Spain. "The next step in human progress, is to live within the fabric of the nature and the environment that underpins us. Revealing that we're not an isolated species, away from nature. Do you agree, or do you think there is another step, or multiple steps to come first?". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to delve into, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

A meandering unscripted real discussion, and opinions, as hosts Stuart and William delve into a listener question, from Preben in Sweden. "If we go to other planets to mine minerals, are we expanding the mistakes we're making on this planet, to other planets?". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to examine, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

Using their meandering, unscripted conversational chat style, hosts Stuart and William explore and examine a listener question, from Pete in Islip, Oxfordshire, England. "We have enough water on the planet for everybody, yet the amount that is uncontaminated and usable for drinking water, each year, gets smaller. I've heard by 2030, the demand for drinking water will exceed the amount of water available. We are likely to rely on chemicals to make the remaining water drinkable, but in time, with that logic, we'll be drinking more chemicals than water. How concerned are you about water resources, and what can be done to secure the quality of the water that remains?". Do you have a question you'd like Stuart and William to explore, discuss or debate? Send us an email thepeoplescountryside@gmail.com with your name, where you're listening from, and your question. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode, Stuart and William explore and examine a question, from listener Vandana in India, "Do you have any examples of people watering down their anti-environmentalist stance, when confronted with a real person, that they personally know, who has environmental activist views? It's hard to generalize all environmentalists as snowflakes, when we start to see people as human beings.". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

Outside of the usual release schedule, here's some audio extracted from a teaser video, just released, detailing an exclusive, just for our Green Transformer tier over on our Patreon page. Your Co-hosts Stuart and William, will be talking about how they approach guests / collaborators for the podcast and other projects. To hear/see the complete version of this exclusive material, become a Green Transformer today via the following link; https://www.patreon.com/thepeoplescountryside Find out more about the wider The People's Countryside project at: https://thepeoplescountryside.co.uk/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William explore and examine a question from listener Ben in Islip, Oxfordshire, England, "Why are so many ready to consume and believe fake news? Covid vaccines have shown this. The BAME community seem to be at high risk of fatality from the virus, with high numbers of death rates, yet that community has a large volume of people not willing to take the vaccine as they say they already have their own tradition based on ginger and turmeric etc. If these treatments they work, why are so many of them dying? Others say the vaccine contains a government tracker, so they won't take it, and asked where they heard this information, they say on What's App. To me governments are already tracking us on devices called mobile phones ". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William explore and examine a question from listener Ivan in Suffolk, England, "Climate science to some is more about alarmist journalism than anything else, which I don't agree with. Those that scream about problems are the privileged few, and this doesn't help those on the ground, facing real hardship, which I don't necessarily agree with either. What I do think as the best option is that discussions are needed to be had now with inventors and entrepreneurs. Inventive minds working on revenue generation from carbon emission collection could help de-politicize climate change too.". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William delve into this second question from listener Ron in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, England, "Where does the confidence come from to change our lives, and live sustainably, when we know it'll be tough, and a huge transition?". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William explore a question from listener Al in Limerick, Southern Ireland, "How can we normalize non-confrontational discussions, disagreements, and debates? Can we disagree nicely as you often say on the podcast? Does having differing views, always have to be approached abrasively, aggressively, and shouting louder than the person in front of you, that disagrees with you?". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William examine a question from listener Ivy in Worthing, West Sussex, England, "Do you feel you over analyze questions you debate on the podcast? ". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William explore and examine a question from listener Jossie from Runcorn, Cheshire, England, "Environmentalists are snowflakes, true or false? Snowflake is a term commonly used to describe people who are offended easily, or repeatedly protest, amongst other things. Is snowflake an unfair label, especially for environmentalists? I see people who use the term about others, are actually a snowflake themselves, as they are the ones being offended. Maybe even hoping to maintain the power balance, and leave things unchanged, by smearing the characters of others? Meanwhile, those accused of being snowflakes, continue unbothered it seems. In this instance the snowflakes being environmentalists?". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message

In this episode Stuart and William delve into a question from listener Jack from Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, England, "Are we rearing a generation of young people, who are petrified about the future, by scarring them with open talk of the climate emergency, that I agree personally we are in?". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepeoplescountryside/message