Climate Decoded
Climate Decoded
Recent Episodes
I'm this long-form deep dive, Kim and Jamie explore Climates Fiction, or CliFi, through three different storytelling techniques: utopian futures, dystopian futures, and fictional stories closer to our present day reality.
Featured writers include:
Francesco Verso | Future Fiction editor and author of many climate fiction stories
Vajra Chandrasekera | Author of The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) and Rakesfall (2024)
Agustina Bazterrica | Author of Tender is the Flesh (2017) and The Unworthy (2023)
Madeleine Watts | Author of The Inland Sea (2021) and Elegy, Southwest (2025)
Olufunke Grace Bankole | Author of The Edge of Water (2025)
Sarena Ulibarri | Author of Another Life (2025) and Steel Tree (2023)
Susanna Kwan | Author of Awake in the Floating City (2025)
Follow Climate Decoded on Instagram @climate_decoded and LinkedIn
Learn more on our Climate Decoded website: https://climatedecoded.com/
Support the podcast by buying us a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/climatedecoded
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Journalist and writer Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. Todd has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019), Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014). In this chat, Jamie and Kim talk with Todd about "Storming the Wall," the economic and ethical costs of militarizing our border, and the language used in different migration spaces. Check out weekly updates from Todd at The Border Chronicle.
Follow Climate Decoded on Instagram @climate_decoded and LinkedIn
Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the episode at the Climate Decoded website: https://climatedecoded.com/
Support the podcast by buying us a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/climatedecoded
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Vajra Chandrasekera is a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards, and was nominated for the Le Guin, Lammy, and Hugo, among others. His second novel Rakesfall (2024) won the Otherwise Award and is a Nebula and Locus award finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, NPR, and Esquire. His short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in many publications including Clarkesworld, West Branch, and The Los Angeles Times. In this chat, Vajra discusses the value of art in exploring different aspects of humanity, climate fiction as a theme in writing alongside capitalism and empire, and the writing pleasure in subverting literary tropes.
Follow Climate Decoded on Instagram @climate_decoded and LinkedIn
Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the episode at the Climate Decoded website: https://climatedecoded.com/
Support the podcast by buying us a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/climatedecoded
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Francesco Verso is the most translated Italian Science Fiction author abroad of the last 20 years. He founded the publishing house Future Fiction with the mission of translating more climate fiction in different languages from around the world. Future Fiction anthologies have featured cli-fi works originally written in Chinese, Hindi, Urdu and more than a dozen others. In this climate chat, Francesco discusses the value in battling the monoculture and the importance of celebrating a diversity of perspectives, the Solarpunk movement, and utopian visions of our shared climate future.
Follow Climate Decoded on Instagram @climate_decoded and LinkedIn
Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the episode at the Climate Decoded website: https://climatedecoded.com/
Support the podcast by buying us a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/climatedecoded
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest, is a 1992 animated fantasy film and part of the environmental film canon. The story takes place in the magical world of FernGully, where fairies and animals are guardians of the forest. Curious fairy Christer has accidentally shrunk a human logger, and is on a quest to protect the forest from a resurgent fossil fuel driven being called Hexus. Action aside, it’s also a banger musical!
In this Climate Review episode, Kim and Izzie talk through the main plot beats. In between gusts of nostalgia, they discuss how FernGully lands today as a communication piece, their great love for Robin Williams, and what can be said of the film's theory of change. Does, indeed, the power to change does rest in the magic of a single seed?
Follow Climate Decoded on Instagram @climate_decoded and LinkedIn
Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the episode at the Climate Decoded website: https://climatedecoded.com/
Support the podcast by buying us a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/climatedecoded
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.