A Matter of Degrees - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Dr Wilkinson and Dr Stokes are informative, witty, and inspiring. They helped kick off my climate activism journey, and I use their podcasts as a way to introduce friends to climate solutions without scaring them. I LOVE this podcast. If you’re an MCJ fan looking for another good podcast, add this to the top of your list.

I love this podcast - especially the “what can I do” series. Information is presented in a clear, easy to understand and engaging manner, and there are clear actions to take to make a difference.

I always feel less anxious, more informed, more hopeful and less alone when I listen to this podcast. I wish everyone would listen!

I generally really like this show, and greatly respect the hosts, but I have to push back on the tack taken here, led by the guest Dave Jones, that the big sinners in the California insurance crisis are oil companies. I am NO FAN of oil and gas. But let’s widen the frame a little. What about car companies that have fought improved mileage standards and electrification tooth and nail, the highway building industry and its associated unions which actively block progress on transit and other alternatives, homeowners and cities that have refused to build infill multifamily housing thus driving development further and further out from job centers, and to top it all off, white America’s centuries-long attachment to segregation which is the ideological underpinning of post-war suburbanization, much of which was encoded into law at every level of government (see The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein). Feel free to harsh the oil companies, but you need to look at the bigger picture to understand the phenomenon.