Protecting the Dannenroder Forest, Threats of Eco-Fascism and Fighting For the Future with Carola Rackete - Episode 13

Welcome fellow travellers!

 Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Carola Rackete, a woman of many talents: she's an ecologist, a conservationist, a master mariner, a polar scientist and a sea rescuer!

 

 Carola shot to fame as Captain of Sea Watch 3 in 2019 when she headed a ship that rescued people lost at sea and attempted to dock to safety in Lampedusa. The Italian government arrested her for saving lives at sea and Carola spent the year after being put up as a sort of representative of the "migrant crisis". However, as we find out in this episode, there is more to Carola than her stint of bravery from last summer. 

 

We discuss the German government's efforts to destroy the Dannenroder forest to build a highway, Carola and her fellow forest protectors' efforts to defend the centuries-old trees. Jamie and Skander open up the can of ugly worms that is eco-fascism and Carola explains her view of blocking out any attempt at mixing nationalism and fascism with environmentalism. 

 

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