
5 Minutes To Save The Earth
An inspiring podcast to unite you with a budding worldwide movement to stabilize the climate and protect the next generation.
Episodes
65 episodes
Episode 10: How and Why To Quiet Quit
We waste our lives and ruin the planet producing mountains of useless disposable crap. Ending this wasteful and destructive activity, and limiting work to producing essentials like food and medicine and shelter is the low hanging fruit that can...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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8:20

Episode 9: Thinking Out Loud
This week, I work without a script! I'll just talk to you about what's on my mind, the latest developments and plans on what The Saners will be doing going forward!
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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5:44

Episode 8: Our Current Campaign
It's the hottest summer in recorded history. Our movement, The Saners, is determined to prevent climate collapse and build a better civilization to replace the failed one that is destroying itself, and ending life as we know it on Earth by crea...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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5:01

Episode 7: How To Transform Humanity on An Elevator
To communicate our ideas quickly, effectively and persuasively, The Saners—our activist group that intends to prevent climate collapse and build a better society—will need an "elevator speech." Here's an attempt at one.
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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6:20

Episode 6: A Shockingly Better World
Admittedly, things LOOK grim. But the future isn't predetermined. It's made. We, The Saners, have decided to put in the work (and hey, it's fun!) to create a shockingly better world. We know what we are doing. How? Listen up!
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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4:33

Episode 5: What's Core Sanerism?
Our movement, The Saners, is built on certain tents. What are the core ideas that Saners must believe and support? What is optional? If we want to succeed in our objectives—prevent climate collapse and build a humane and sustainable civilizatio...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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10:45

Episode 4: TAKE ACTION! Strike While the Planet Is Hot!
The Saners, the climate group that seeks to prevent climate collapse and build a humane and sustainable civilization, has announce their (our!) summer action. It's called "Strike While the Planet Is HOT!" It's easy to participate—and important ...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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8:40

Episode 3: Routinely and Playfully Restoring Sanity
Here's a description of what you can do—routinely—in the course of your day to spread the Saners' messages, recruit new Saners and help change the conversation to focus on preventing climate collapse and ensuring that our children will live in ...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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9:20

Episode 2: The Saners - A Primer
I've begun working on a pamphlet to introduce the key concepts of The Saners, and most importantly, why this movement can succeed in preventing climate collapse and building a better, more sustainable society. Continue the journey with me!
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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9:24

Episode 1: Serious Purpose. Playful Approach.
This episode marks an abrupt and much needed change for the podcast, and for the Saners as a movement. We are changing tone—and this matters. We will continue to use an assertive nonviolent and non-cooperative approach. But we will be playful, ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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6:53

Episode 6: When Human Law and Natural Laws Conflict, Nature Always Wins
The authorities around the world, both in government and business, want the impossible. In fact they demand it. They want continued growth, continued and even expanded exploitation of both people and the Earth, as resources to increase their ow...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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9:11

Episode 5: The Declining Nations
What we think of as the most powerful nations on Earth are in decline, a rapid decline. It's a fall of their own making. They achieved and maintained their dominance in part by exploiting fossil fuels more successfully that other countries. The...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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10:49

Episode 4: Cost of Crisis
We live in a world of neoliberalism and neo-classical economics. These false gods are the engine behind the fast-paced destruction of our biosphere and our accelerating path to climate collapse. This is insane, and sane people won't stand for i...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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9:23

Episode 3: Why I No Longer Favor Working Through the System
It's become clear that the system is aligned with Big Oil and against us, against our children and against our planet. They want to maximize profits and humans and the Earth are simply tools to earn more money. Neither has any value in our neoc...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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10:39

Episode 2: The COP Meetings - 28 Years of Failure
The authorities have held 28 consecutive international climate meetings, called Council of Parties, or COP. All of these meetings have accomplished nothing: CO2 emissions are increasing and there is literally not even a plan to effectively deal...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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8:13

Episode 1: The Alternative to Our Evil Society Isn't Chaos and Nihilism. It's LIFE.
Political and corporate leaders would have you believe that they have things under control and that the only alternative to THEIR way is chaos. That's a lie. Their way, the way we are going, we are cooking the Earth and dooming our children and...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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9:04

Episode 12: The Meaning of "Emergency"
The leaders in business and government worldwide have failed catastrophically to address the existential climate crisis in a meaningful way. They want things to stay as they are—even though this is impossible. They like the current situation be...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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7:52

Episode 11: Why the Powerful Climate Destroyers Are Vulnerable
Maybe the reason climate activists—and ordinary people who love their children and Nature—have not yet launched an effective movement is that the opponent is too strong. Wealthy businessmen and governments have huge resources at their disposal....
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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9:12

Episode 10: Guidelines For the Cllimate Emergency Team
The movement, The Saners, seeks to put together a team of climate scientists to develop (and then implement) a worldwide emergency program to prevent the collapse of the biosphere. We want our children to inherit a stable and habitable planet—e...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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8:26

Episode 9: Somebody Has To Start Things
It's not great men, but ordinary people like you and me—people with no formal authority—who change the world. But somebody must start first, must break the ice, must clear the ground for others to join. This episode identifies three truths that...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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6:04

Episode 8: How Saving the World Makes Each of Us Whole
The Saners Movement isn't something separate from your life. If you become a Saner, you must also become more fully yourself, especially your creative self. Being both a unique and creative human being, and a movement activist are compatible ro...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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7:00

Episode 7: How I Live My Life
The world is in crisis but we must still live our lives day to day. The mundane and cataclysmic co-exist. And we suffer from anxiety from our ordinary obligations now complicated by a climate crisis. What should we do? How can we balance this? ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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9:51

Episode 6: The Climate Crisis - A Retrospective
This is a script for fictional documentary about how things could be—if we sane and caring and allegedly powerless people—took control of events and worked to save the climate and human decency. We need to imagine a better future if we hope to ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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16:59

Episode 5: Wanted - An EFFECTIVE Climate Movement
Our budding movement aims to use solid and proven strategies and principles to achieve our aims—to put climate scientists in charge of a worldwide emergency proram to address the crisis, and to establish and humane and sustainable society. We w...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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8:37

Episode 4: Unity, Ideology and Winning
What is the ideology and politics of The Saners? Is there a purity test? No! We are a movement with a big tent. We are trying the save the biosphere, to keep our home planet habitable. We are determined to ensure that our children, EVERYONE'S c...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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9:23
