#4 Starting Point

The European Climate Walk is on its way, and we reflect at this
starting point on what we will do in the next few months: as a
project, but also what is ahead for this podcast. We hear how the
first hikers have prepared themselves for their journey in
Northern Norway and talk with Gabriel Baunach from Climaware
about the role of science communication in times of the Climate
Crisis. Finally, we listen to the band Krafetzka and their song
“No Planet B”.





Podcast timeline:


0:00 Teaser


1:40 Wanderers Song


3:12 Introduction


5:34 Markus & Anna on their way to the North Cape


9:25 Interview with Gabriel Baunach about Science Communication


36:00 Follow-up talk


40:44 Krafetzka





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hike with us across Europe, let us know through our Social Media
contacts or our website.


The discussion around science communication, especially in the
face of the Climate Crisis, is way more extensive than we could
cover in our podcast. Therefore, we listed some other podcasts we
can recommend, that deal with this topic in more length and
depth, if you are interested in hearing more (the ones on the
list are in German):


Climaware — Klima Wissen Wandel (Gabriel Baunach, One Pod
Wonder)

1,5 Grad — der Klima-Podcast mit Luisa Neubauer (Spotify
& Luisa Neubauer)

POD STEH UNS BEI (STUDIO BUMMENS & K2H)

Alles Gesagt? vom 23.07.2020 “Mai The Nguyen-Kim, rettet
Wissenschaft die Welt?” (ZEIT ONLINE)



If you have more recommendations of good podcasts about this
topic, especially in other languages, let us know and we will
list them here!

Since the message from Krafetzka in the episode is spoken in
German, we have an English transcript here:
Hey lovely people, whether you are out hiking or listening from
home: I'm Annie from Krafetzka and we're really happy to be here
today and think it's very important to put in our two cents and
make our contribution. Maybe you can hear a nice storm raging in
the background and that fits frighteningly well with the fact
that we are just about to share our frightening and formative
experiences of nature within the band. Quite a lot came up and
together and we came up with some situations quite directly.
Something like the blooming meadows from childhood, now dried out
and almost without insects, or seeing the former childhood and
home forest now cleared. I would like to tell you a bit more
about how our song “No planet B” came about. It was in March
2018, I think on a Thursday, when we were invited by the local
Fridays for Future group in Witten to play at the demo the next
day. Afterwards it was clear, that we had to come up with a
suitable song somehow and then “No Planet B” came into being, in
a very nice night and fog action. I would like to share a quote
from a song by another band that fits the theme: "Music alone may
not be a solution, but it is a thorn in the ear. And so, with our
music we somehow try to contribute, to change something, we try
to point out issues and we try to give the people who are working
on solutions maybe at least one or two liberating dance evenings.
We know that writing songs, making music, and talking talking
talking alone is of course not enough but, hey people, we also
know we can change something. We can change something now and we
can change it together and we are conscious and strong together
and we hold ourselves strong. We go this way together with you
and we want to infect as many people as possible with it.