Join songwriters Ben, Marine and guests for a weekly discussion of topics ranging from politics, environment, language, conservation, recycling and also more trivial topics, with each conversation presented in an original song.
Hot News for Planet Earth and Swinging with the Algorithm
Today on the Issues menu, the attention-grabbing plight of us all, internet-surfers that we are, the YouTube algorithm. And also, more importantly, Global Warming, aka. Climate Change. It's happening. It might keep happening. Which will make lots of other things happen. Some of which, not so cool. Figuratively, and literally.
For all the links and references to the articles and content mentioned in the pod, please hop to: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-pod-global-24698980 (https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-pod-global-24698980) !
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1 May 2020
Tucking Away Trillions with Tax Evasion and Self-Helping Yourself to Success, Success
On the podding menu today, tax evasion, and how it all started - and how it’s still a-happenin’ - as well as self-help and the self-help industry !
So help yourself to a portion of issues, with songs of course, ‘Taxman Don’t Take my Money’ by Ben, which is not too long after skippy and happy ‘Success!’ by Marine.
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All the links of the articles and studies mentioned in the pod are on this page:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-pod-self-and-25628379 (https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-pod-self-and-25628379)
6 Apr 2020
A Baby & Toddler Special with Vaccines & Nappies. Also, Cocaine.
Today on Issues & Songs, why it’s important to vaccinate your kids, and why Marine is upset that a certain Andy guy mislead the public with biased research. Also baby-themed, nappies ! Or diapers, depending which English you English.
A little bit of extra reading for you about nappies https://realnappies.com.au/blogs/news/environmental-impact-of-nappies-part-one
and about wet wipes https://friendsoftheearth.uk/plastics/wet-wipes-keeping-them-out-our-seas-and-sewers
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28 Oct 2019
The Patriarchy's Downstairs Discrepancy and Cementing a Concrete Future for our Green Green Earth
Our website’s got a fresh new look: it’s issuesandsongs.com (https://issuesandsongs.com/) so come drop by and say hi !
Today, we get started with the patriarchy, the world of and for men, and how this impacts female contraception. That’s just after brief meanderings about the political setup of our western democracies. Then we stumble onto concrete ! A hard topic to crack, but we give it our best shot. This may lead to silica particles in the air around the discussion.
All the links and references are in this specific blog post:
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28 Jan 2019
Yellow fever patriotism, dead fish and plastic, plastic plastic!
Join Ben and Marine for the new episode of the Issues and Songs podcast! It's non-recyclable. A bit like plastic. And before we dealve into that, a bit of a makeover for the happy-passionate lovers of flags and singing with clenched fists.
Marine's articles are
Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full) on ScienceAdvances
Here's the pdf of the International Coastal Cleanup Report (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full)
And the huge plastic article quoted in the pod is the Guardian's Long Read (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/13/the-plastic-backlash-whats-behind-our-sudden-rage-and-will-it-make-a-difference) The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference? (http://the%20plastic%20backlash:%20what) you can skip to the last third for the best insight I'd suggest,
And the eco-pirate with the five Arrr'-s is here on her own website Zero Waste Home (https://zerowastehome.com/).
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21 Jan 2019
Presentations, efficient naps, EU-phemisms and Bayer-Voldemonsanto
In the very first issue of the Issues and Songs Podcast, Ben and Marine discuss, and sing about, efficient napping, and the issue that saw the EU approve Bayer-Monsanto’s destructive weed-killer relying on very much biased ‘research’. The songs are “Efficient Lullaby” and “What’s the point of having EU if EU don’t like me?”.
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