{"id":555,"date":"2019-09-23T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:45:52","slug":"focus-ethical-living-and-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/focus-ethical-living-and-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus: Ethical Living and Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the time of late capitalism, growing inequality and increasing awareness of causes and impacts of climate crisis, what does it mean to live ethically? Our social media is saturated with perspectives around plastic use and ecological degradation, around industrialised agriculture and competing arguments for why mass population shifts to veganism can or can&#8217;t address climate change.&nbsp; We are presented with a myriad of personal choices presented as ethical living, but is it possible to harness individual choices and behaviour changes into a wider forces for social change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ella McSweeney. Ella a journalist and presenter RTE &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcradio4\">BBC Radio4<\/a>, The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\">Guardian<\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishtimes\">The Irish Times<\/a> around themes of climate change, ecology, agriculture and farming.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Sin\u00e9ad Mercier. Sin\u00e9ad is a D\u00e1il Researcher with the Green Party as well as being involved with grassroots and climate justice movements in Ireland.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Davie Philip. Davie was a founding member of both <a href=\"FEASTA: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and Sustainabl\u2026\">FEASTA: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and Sustainable Projects Ireland Ltd<\/a> the company behind the ecovillage project in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillage.ie\">Cloughjordan<\/a>, Co. Tipperary where he now lives.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The panel was moderated by Tom Campbell a Lecturer with the Department of International Development (NUI Maynooth), teaching modules at undergraduate and post-graduate level including: Political Economy of Environment and Development, Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation, Food, Nutrition and Climate Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5355\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/storybud\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/nearcast\/focus\/Comhlamh02.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5355','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/storybud\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/nearcast\/focus\/Comhlamh02.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton_sm.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/storybud\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/nearcast\/focus\/Comhlamh02.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/?powerpress_pinw=555-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/storybud\/www.neararchive.org\/upload\/nearcast\/focus\/Comhlamh02.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Comhlamh02.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:02:33 &#8212; 143.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/focus-podcast\/id1479422709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"34\" src=\"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Listen_on_Apple_Podcasts_sRGB_US.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Listen_on_Apple_Podcasts_sRGB_US.jpg 133w, https:\/\/nearcast.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Listen_on_Apple_Podcasts_sRGB_US-90x23.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong>Focus<\/strong>&nbsp;is an audio project from Comhl\u00e1mh, the association of returned development workers and volunteers.&nbsp; Produced and hosted by Mark Malone, Focus is a mix of documentaries and and interviews. 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