Greenpeace CEO AREEBA HAMID (Climate Solutions For Realists miniseries Part 3) #614
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is part 3 of an April-long miniseries curated by Pip entitled 'Climate Solutions For Realists'.
Our third guest is Greenpeace CEO AREEBA HAMID.
A really great chance to hear from someone who could not be more involved with Greenpeace, in a capacity which has Areeba overseeing all that is happening in the company and from a vantage point which allows views into the - let's face it - incredibly shady world of oil companies. Companies which have seemingly taken notes from cartoon supervillains and considered it a good look. Areeba goes into really awesome depth with facts and knowledge (attributes which these days are not always celebrated) about such topics as the eternal bête noir of Shell, the doubling down of companies on all the bad behaviour, hiding research, greenwashing and sportswashing and public image, the David and Goliath energy of huge corporations chasing down movements like Greenpeace, how Greg from Succession foretold an event in Greenpeace's day to day, Shell's PR disaster, and how companies will always lose to humour and comedy. With the echo of the motto 'Stop Drilling And Start Paying' ringing in our ears, enjoy this episode with someone who can help shed some light on such sour times.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 614. And it's episode three of our climate |
| 0:08.6 | solutions for realist series. Had two fantastic conversations already with James Skeet of Just Stop Oil and |
| 0:16.4 | Daisy Dunn, a climate journalist at Carbon Brief. And today we've got a really special one. |
| 0:22.5 | I speak to Areba Hamid of Greenpeace. |
| 0:25.6 | Really felt lucky to get to go into Greenpeace and have this conversation, to sit down in |
| 0:31.0 | their, in their HQ and have a really open and honest conversation. |
| 0:35.3 | Ariba's an absolute joy. |
| 0:37.0 | This conversation is light and funny and also serious and heavy in places. |
| 0:41.9 | And I think that's what I like about Greenpeace's approach to activism. |
| 0:45.5 | It has both those. |
| 0:46.8 | It is able to exist in both those planes at the same time. |
| 0:50.7 | But we get into that. |
| 0:51.7 | Don't you worry? |
| 0:53.0 | As I mentioned a few times, this, this series |
| 0:55.5 | isn't about big celebrity names, really, so it relies on your word of mouth, on your support, |
| 1:01.7 | on your shouting about this series. The whole month, the whole month of April, it's all climate |
| 1:06.9 | specials. We're brought to you as ever by speech of element records.com. That's where you can |
| 1:11.9 | support the podcast. And as I've mentioned, a few times, every order you get a tree planted in |
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| 1:24.2 | It's a really cool, cool thing. Yeah. We're also brought you by patreon.com forward slash scrupious pip |
| 1:30.2 | and twitch.tv. |
| 1:31.5 | forward slash scrupious pipyo. |
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