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Climate Niche

Climate Niche

Written by: Elise Silvestri
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The climate crisis. Even if you can’t explain the science, you know it’s here. But no one is giving us the tools and frameworks we need to grapple with it.

The climate crisis is not just about parts per million, or degrees, or dystopias. It’s about the powerful and the wealthy. It’s about surveillance. It’s about your health. It’s about affordability. It’s about media and communications. It’s about immigration. It’s about the food on your plate. It’s about you. About us. About the courage to face history and imagine the future.

So why are we only talking about degrees?

You have a stake in the climate crisis. Come learn about it. Climate Niche is a living collection of interdisciplinary climate conversations. Hear from academics, activists, educators, ecologists, health professionals, and more on their lived expertise. Get the actual picture of what the climate crisis means and how we move forward.

Elise Silvestri 2025 Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The US Military & Climate Chaos with Lindsay Koshgarian

    The US Military & Climate Chaos with Lindsay Koshgarian
    Jan 2 2026

    There’s a lot of places to begin talking about climate chaos. The US military, the biggest institutional fossil fuel emitter in the world, might be a good place to start. Equipped with the largest peacetime budget it’s ever seen, the US military has amassed incredible power and influence… to do what, exactly? Today I sat down with Lindsay Koshgarian, executive director of National Priorities Project, to talk about the military’s role in climate emissions, protecting resources - especially fossil fuels - instead of people, and how we can practice antimilitarism in our everyday lives.

    Learn more about Lindsay’s work here: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/

    Let us know what you think at climatenichepodcast@gmail.com.
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