Jun 17, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
In this messy episode, Tiff dives into the deep/shallow waters of the climate crisis with Ruth Nyambura, an eco-feminist and thinker at large. Together, they discuss smart-people things like…
Ruth NyamburaGuest
Tiffany Kagure MugoHostThose of us who are space nerds will know about Artemis II, a recent crewed lunar flyby mission.
Basically, the NASA version of when your friend sends you a voice note saying, "'Babes, I just drove past your house.'" A lovely gesture that just warms the heart.
During this mission, one of the astronauts said, in all the emptiness, the whole bunch of nothing we call the universe, you have this oasis of earth, this beautiful place where we get to exist together.
We really are squad on this giant pebble hurtling through space and the climate crisis is putting this house we share in jeopardy.
The climate crisis is not a crisis that we're waiting to see in the next 30 years.
We have seen and we continue to see the impacts of the climate crisis, whether we're talking about cyclones in the Indian Ocean coast, Madagascar, Comoros, where we've been seeing the floods in Mozambique, Malawi, also where you are in South Africa, the floods that have been happening in Pazulu Natal in the last few years.
So we are seeing also the rapid desertification that is happening across the continent of Africa.
This is where, again, go back to my work and the location around imperialism, the legacies of colonialism, where the continent of Africa has produced the least in the context of emissions, yet we are suffering the very, very worst effects and impacts of the climate crisis and the negotiations that we see in multilateral spaces such as the UN.
According to the Human Development Report, the global minority is responsible for about half of all emissions since the Industrial Revolution.
Privileged lifestyles in Europe, North America, and other nations in the Global North produce a carbon footprint 100 times greater than that of the world's poorer nations combined.
Like, look, I put poor in rabbit ears because what is this global slander? What is this global slander, please? Now, I'm not sure who is getting called poor in this case, and I frankly do not care for it.
A few are using up the lion's share of the good grace we have built on this mother earth.
It really is a case of having a really, really messy set of housemates, which sucks.
It's like in university when you wake up and your roommates had like a massive party.
And the place is just littered with cups, cold pizza, and what looks like an illegally commandeered goat from the local petting zoo.
But Ruth tells us before we can tackle what we think is coming in the future, we have to look back.
Those of us who are space nerds will know about Artemis II, a recent crewed lunar flyby mission.
Basically, the NASA version of when your friend sends you a voice note saying, "'Babes, I just drove past your house.'" A lovely gesture that just warms the heart.
During this mission, one of the astronauts said, in all the emptiness, the whole bunch of nothing we call the universe, you have this oasis of earth, this beautiful place where we get to exist together.
We really are squad on this giant pebble hurtling through space and the climate crisis is putting this house we share in jeopardy.
The climate crisis is not a crisis that we're waiting to see in the next 30 years.
We have seen and we continue to see the impacts of the climate crisis, whether we're talking about cyclones in the Indian Ocean coast, Madagascar, Comoros, where we've been seeing the floods in Mozambique, Malawi, also where you are in South Africa, the floods that have been happening in Pazulu Natal in the last few years.
So we are seeing also the rapid desertification that is happening across the continent of Africa.
This is where, again, go back to my work and the location around imperialism, the legacies of colonialism, where the continent of Africa has produced the least in the context of emissions, yet we are suffering the very, very worst effects and impacts of the climate crisis and the negotiations that we see in multilateral spaces such as the UN.
According to the Human Development Report, the global minority is responsible for about half of all emissions since the Industrial Revolution.
Privileged lifestyles in Europe, North America, and other nations in the Global North produce a carbon footprint 100 times greater than that of the world's poorer nations combined.
Like, look, I put poor in rabbit ears because what is this global slander? What is this global slander, please? Now, I'm not sure who is getting called poor in this case, and I frankly do not care for it.
A few are using up the lion's share of the good grace we have built on this mother earth.
It really is a case of having a really, really messy set of housemates, which sucks.
It's like in university when you wake up and your roommates had like a massive party.
And the place is just littered with cups, cold pizza, and what looks like an illegally commandeered goat from the local petting zoo.
But Ruth tells us before we can tackle what we think is coming in the future, we have to look back.
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