Exposing... The... Atlas... Network... with Dr Jeremy walker

Climate Action Show

Rosie interviews Dr Jeremy Walker on his current research focusing on the history of the petroleum industry from the early 20th century and of the international networks and organisations assembled by neoliberal intellectuals, activists, politicians, media organisations and business funders, now a permanent global infrastructure of 'free-market' think-tanks aimed at influencing public opinion, public policy, national legislation and international law, including against effective climate policy.They discuss the Atlas Network. What it is, and the ways in wich it has been seriously insidiously affecting our political, economic, and social realities in the shadows.In this episode we hear Dr Jeremy Walker talk about the Atlas Network, the secretive, hugely influential network of ultra conservative, so-called “think tanks”, that has been very successful in shaping government policy and public opinion to suit its donors, primarily the fossil fuel industry.