Linking the pieces of this program about climate change are several songs by Ella Fitzgerald, together with commentary by host Frann Michel on

• the basic issues and concepts of climate change,
• how climate change and other global disasters have played in works of science fiction, and
• how fantasy can help us to imagine alternatives to the current reality of capitalism and environmental degradation.  

This segment puts together all Frann's remarks and Ella's songs. You can also read Frann's remarks on her blog.  

 Can technology address the problems posed by climate change?   Environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski is the author of The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what kind of civilization can survive the coming climate shifts.  You can read an excerpt from her book here.

Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is about a plot to remake a mind -- but do the film makers give viewers' minds enough to go on?  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb ask whether this film is up to its appointed task.   

Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program is about climate change, science fiction, and science fiction about climate change, but it is not about the illusion that climate change is itself science fiction.  This is a show that should be heard from beginning to end, although the parts are available separately below.  Frann Michel's three commentaries are packaged together, along with appropriate songs by jazz great Ella Fitzgerald.