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My guest today is Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson – marine biologist and author of What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures . She’s the co-founder of the ocean policy think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-editor of the...
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Better Future with Michael Mezz
Hosted by Michael Mezzatesta · society · EN
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Bringing you the people, projects and ideas helping steer the world toward a better future.
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Who hosts Better Future with Michael Mezz?
Better Future with Michael Mezz is hosted by Michael Mezzatesta. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
What has Better Future with Michael Mezz covered recently?
Recent episodes include "We Already Have the Climate Solutions We Need | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (020)" (21 October 2026, 60 minutes), "The Oligarchs Are Organized. The Working Class Isn’t. Maurice Mitchell on Building Power (019)" (30 September 2026, 81 minutes), and "Why We Must Tax Billionaires | Gabriel Zucman on Inequality and the Wealth Tax (018)" (10 September 2026, 72 minutes).
How often does Better Future with Michael Mezz publish?
Better Future with Michael Mezz publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 70 minutes across 20 episodes.
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Booking probability for Better Future with Michael Mezz is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Better Future with Michael Mezz requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Better Future with Michael Mezz's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Better Future with Michael Mezz are Economic Development & Regulation and Environmental Agencies. Better Future with Michael Mezz has a society audience and around 15,000 subscribers on YouTube.
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Michael Mezzatesta hosts Better Future with Michael Mezz, a society podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #80
The Oligarchs Are Organized. The Working Class Isn’t. Maurice Mitchell on Building Power (019)
Sep 30, 20261h 21mS1My guest today is Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party – one of the leading progressive institutions in U.S. politics today. Their platform includes universal health care, “a home you can...
Sep 10, 20261h 12mS1My guest today is Dr. Gabriel Zucman, the world's leading expert on wealth taxes. He’s a professor at both the Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley, and he’s the author of several books, including his most recent...
Episode #17
What Comes After Capitalism? | Timothée Parrique on Degrowth, Ecology, and the Future (017)
Aug 20, 20261h 41mS1My guest today is Dr. Timothée Parrique – ecological economist and author of Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth. Tim is one of the clearest and most-cited academics in the degrowth movement. We recorded this...
Jul 29, 20261h 47mS1My guest today is Dr. Jason Hickel – professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of The Divide and Less Is More. This is our second...
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Episode #15
How to Solve the Climate Crisis – Johan Rockström on Planetary Boundaries & the Path Forward
Jun 25, 202653 minS1My guest today is Johan Rockström – one of the world’s leading climate scientists and the co-creator of the ‘planetary boundaries’ framework. His work is the scientific foundation for much of the new economic thinking...
Jun 4, 20261h 21mS1My guest today is Kate Raworth – renegade economist, author of Doughnut Economics, and co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. We get into why mainstream economics leaves out ecology, inequality, and human...
May 13, 20261h 4mS1My guest today is Olivier De Schutter – UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and one of the most important voices in the global movement to redesign the economy around human wellbeing rather than...
Apr 29, 202649 minS1My guest today is Rob Hopkins – co-founder of the Transition Network, a global movement supporting communities to reimagine and rebuild their local economies in response to climate and economic crisis. He's the author...
Apr 10, 20261h 16mS1My guest today is Dr. Butch Ware – historian, professor, and Green Party candidate for Governor of California. In this episode, Dr. Ware argues that the Democrat-Republican duopoly serves the same corporate donors...
Mar 16, 202658 minS1My guest today is Greg Stoker, a former U.S. Army Ranger who has become a prominent anti-imperialist activist, journalist, and geopolitical commentator. In this conversation, we discuss the escalating conflict in Iran...
Feb 12, 20261h 4mS1My guest today is Saikat Chakrabarti – former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, co-founder of Justice Democrats, co-author of the Green New Deal, and now a candidate for Congress running to replace Nancy...
Episode #8
008 - Lessons From Resisting ICE — Strategies That Work for the Left (with Aru Shiney-Ajay)
Jan 29, 202638 minS1My guest is Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement. We spoke while Aru was on the ground in Minneapolis during an unprecedented wave of ICE raids that have shaken the city – and sparked a powerful...
Jan 7, 20261h 15mS1My guest today is Steven Donziger, a human rights and environmental lawyer best known for leading a historic legal case against Chevron on behalf of Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We discuss Chevron’s...
Dec 11, 20251h 19mS1My guest today is Donnie Maclurcan, founder of the Post Growth Institute and a thinker who played a major role in my own journey. In this episode, Donnie breaks down why money accumulation under capitalism necessarily...
Oct 22, 20251h 19mS1My guest today is Grace Blakeley – UK-based political economist and author of three books, including her most recent: Vulture Capitalism. We discuss how political and corporate elites work together to protect their...
Sep 4, 202551 minS1My guest today is Elizabeth Booker Houston – lawyer, comedian, and political commentator based in Washington DC. We discuss white supremacy in US politics, how to integrate class consciousness with anti-racism, the...
Episode #3
003 - Jason Hickel on Post-Capitalism, Degrowth, and Why Capitalism Can’t Solve Climate Change
Jul 31, 20251h 17mS1My guest today is Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of two books: The Divide and Less is More. We discuss why a...
Jul 10, 20251 hourMy guest today is Raymond Wei – filmmaker, community organizer, and co-founder of The Conscious Citizens . Ray creates sharp, accessible videos about everything from geopolitics to community organizing, and his work is...
Jun 25, 20251h 12mWelcome to the Better Future podcast. My guest today is Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement. We discuss the state of the left, the importance of activism, the future of the Democratic Party, and...
Recent guests
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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
marine biologist, policy expert, author, Urban Ocean Lab
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Jason Hickel
author of The Divide, Institute for Environmental Science & Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Butch Ware
Green Party candidate for governor of California, California Green Party
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Grace Blakeley
political economist, writer, commentator, IPPR
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