Crazy Town
By Post Carbon Institute: Sustainability, Climate, Collapse, and Dark Humor
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With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves.
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Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear
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May 01, 2024 |
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Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Bonus Riff: Infinite, Unlimited, Forever - Water in the Desert
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Bonus: Holding the Fire - Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Bonus: Going Wild with Rae Wynn-Grant
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Bonus: Bagdhad Bob Visits Climate Town
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction
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May 31, 2023 |
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Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites' Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation
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May 24, 2023 |
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Announcement: 2023 Crazy Town Hall
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May 18, 2023 |
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How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of
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May 17, 2023 |
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Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies
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May 10, 2023 |
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How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.
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May 03, 2023 |
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Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World"
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Bonus: Human Rights and Multispecies Justice with Danielle Celermajer
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Bonus: A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Bonus: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Bonus: Angry Birds and Hairbrained Humans with Mary Roach
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Announcement: Power Podcast with Richard Heinberg
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Bonus: Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Bonus: The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Skyrocketing Population and Carbon Dioxide: Watershed Moments Wrap-up
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Chillin' and Killin': How Air Conditioning Has Altered Human Behavior and the Environment
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Highway to Hell: How Road Infrastructure Traps Us in an Unsustainable Nightmare
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species
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May 25, 2022 |
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The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity
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May 18, 2022 |
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It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us
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May 11, 2022 |
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Colonizing the Sky: The Untold Environmental Toll of Skyscrapers
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Bright Side Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: How Positive Thinking Undermines Sustainability
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Bonus: The Legal Legacy of Colonization with Sherri Mitchell
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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A Load of Papal Bull: Greenlighting Colonization and the Mindset of Extraction
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Bonus: Patriarchy and the Cultural Roots of the Climate Crisis with Amy Westervelt
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Overexploitation of Animals and Nature
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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The Taming of the Slough: Humanity's History of Trying to Control Water
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Bonus: Climate Sabotage with Tim DeChristopher
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Season 4 Announcement
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Bonus: Stop Saving the Planet with Jenny Price
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Bonus: Holiday Guide for the Perplexed
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Bonus: It's All Paradox with Douglas Rushkoff
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Bonus: Oceans of Knowledge with Sylvia Earle
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Bonus: What Could Possibly Go Right with Vicki Robin
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Bonus: Climate Craziness with Peter Kalmus
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Hidden Drivers Wrap-up, or... the Story of the Throbbing Amygdala
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or... the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or... the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things
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May 26, 2021 |
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Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or... the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar
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May 19, 2021 |
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The Attention Economy and Nature Depletion, or… the Story of Einstein Watching Cat Videos
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May 12, 2021 |
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Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or... the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion
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May 05, 2021 |
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The Myth of Progress and Limits to Growth, or... the Story of the World's Largest Shovel
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Complexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp Microphone
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or... the Story of the Duelling Economists
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Conspiracy Theories and Collapse, or… the Story of UFOs and Free Energy
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Self Domestication and Overshoot, or… the Story of Foxes and Russian Melodrama
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Crazy Town Trailer
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or... the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Cognitive Bias and Global Warming, or... the Story of Cattle Prods and Ice Cream Shops
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Season 3 Announcement
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Bonus: Green Dreamer with Jason Bradford
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Bonus: The Practical Stoic with Richard Heinberg
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Bonus: Decolonizing the Mind with Sherri Mitchell
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Tis but a Scratch: the Insanity of Getting the Economy "Back to Normal"
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege and Systemic Racism
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Mailbag: Dark Humor and Sustainability from Listeners around the World
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May 28, 2020 |
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Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and Fault Lines in American Politics
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May 21, 2020 |
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Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction as We Encounter the Limits to Growth
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May 14, 2020 |
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Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot
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May 11, 2020 |
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Koala Butts Ablaze: Growth, Conservation, and Collapse in the Adaptive Cycle
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May 07, 2020 |
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Announcement: Luciferian Mailbag Call
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May 04, 2020 |
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Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Stokes Controversy over Renewable Energy
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: Squandering Energy and Rethinking Technology
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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An Ecofascist and a Social Justice Warrior Walk into a Bar: Extremist Politics and Censorship
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Foreclosing on the Frackers: Coronavirus and the Future of Energy
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Delusion to the Left, Denial to the Right, and the Environmental Reality Caught in the Middle
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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I Can't Drive 35: the Politics of Rationing and its Potential to Shift the Economy
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Coronavirus and the Three Bears: the Right-Sized Crisis for a Transition to Sustainability?
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Our Naked Emperors Catch Coronavirus: How to Think about Collapse with Nafeez Ahmed
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Announcement: Keeping up with Coronavirus
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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The 10,000-Mile Cod, Insane Global Trade, and the Path to a Resilient Local Economy
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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The Long and Shart of Extreme Travel as Climate Chaos Reigns
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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The Adventures of Bill and Lou: the Obscene Politics of Climate Change and Overshoot
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Band-Aid Town and the Psychology of Climate Change
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May 30, 2019 |
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Helicopters and Kick the Can: Money in the Real World of Energy and the Environment
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May 23, 2019 |
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My Dinner Is Stuck in Traffic: Fossil Fuels and the Food Transition
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May 16, 2019 |
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Tackling Inequality in the Economy, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time
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May 09, 2019 |
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They'll Think of Somethingisms: Is Technology Really the Answer to Overshoot?
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May 02, 2019 |
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Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn: When Climate Scientists and Economists Go off the Rails
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Deer Sinew and Beetle Biscuits: Raising Kids in the Age of Climate Chaos
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Zombies, Magic Rocks, Collapse, and Other Fun Sustainability Stories
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Solar Freakin' Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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My Car Is Bigger than Yours: Consumerist Dreams and Environmental Nightmares
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Punching Ronnie in the Mouth: Limits to Growth and Economic Lies
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Orangutans and Santa Suits: Who's Crazy When It Comes to Climate Change?
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Mar 14, 2019 |