SHOW NOTES

All the dets and specials

GLOBAL GOALS S01E12: The Future of Consumerism

In episode 12, we recap where we are as a human race and as a planet, and how production and consumption have brought us here. As in...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E11: Re-thinking Our Ethics

In episode 11, we scrutinise ethics. Just as we have called our podcast Consumerism in the 21st Century, we quote from the late Lord...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E10: Role of the Investor

Episode 10 explores the role of investors – who secure public funds, underpin multinational companies and enable startups to connect and...

GLOBAL GOALS INTERVIEW WITH TREEPOINTS

Throughout The Oblique Life Global Goals Season 1, we have partnered with Treepoints, a UK-based social enterprise that helps businesses...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E09: The Global Waste Opportunity

In episode 9, we zoom in on waste. Many countries – regardless of their level of industrialisation – are still dumping or incinerating...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E08: Focus on FOOD

In episode 8, we discuss the journey from farm to fork, and its many hurdles, diversions, paradoxes and opportunities. One-third of food...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E07: Focus on Fashion

If the speakers in episode 7 have a common thread (pun intended), it is that fashion must move to a “less and better” paradigm, from...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E06: Focus on Consumer Electronics

In this episode, we focus on consumer electronics – any product with a battery or plug. Thanks to them, we work, connect, clean clothes...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E05: Linear to Circular Economy

The notion today that our planet has infinite resources is as outdated as the 16th century notion that the Earth was flat. Shailendra...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E03: Overconsumption

The word ‘consumption’ is associated with exhausting resources. For as long as civilisations have revelled in materialism, it has equally...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E02: Producing the problem

How and how much we produce are under increasing scrutiny, and that is what we explore in episode 2. Agriculture, mining and...

GLOBAL GOALS S01E01: CONSUMERISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Our first episode investigates how consumerism is causing many of today’s global economic, social and environmental problems. We uncover...