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    Earth Sciences

    Crazy Town

    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. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town.

    Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response.

    Your hosts:
    Asher Miller – Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another.

    Rob Dietz – Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.”

    Jason Bradford – Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes.

    These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling?

    Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.

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    Latest Episodes:
    How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex. May 03, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • John Markoff, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand, 2022.
    • Anna Wiener, "The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s 'Whole Earth Catalog'," The New Yorker, November 16, 2018.
    • Wolf Tivy and Matt Ellison, "'Life Goes On' With Stewart Brand," Palladium, September 14, 2022.
    • "Ecomodernist Manifesto"
    • Timothee Parrique, "A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think," Resilience, February 28, 2023.
    • Low-Tech Magazine
    • The Long Now Foundation
    • Revive & Restore

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    Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World" Apr 26, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who attempts to remake the world's operating system in his own image. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, 2021.
    • Alan Guebert, "Given What We Don't Know, Why Do We Act Like We Do Know?," Food and Farm File, September 25, 2022.
    • Gates Foundation, "Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10 Billion in Call for Decade of Vaccines," January 2010.
    • Bill Gates TED Talk, "The next outbreak? We're not ready," 2015.
    • Erin Banco, Ashleigh Furlong, and Lennart Pfahler, "How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight," Politico, September 14, 2022.
    • Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, October 1, 2019.
    • Timothy A. Wise "Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa," Tufts University, July 2020.
    • Anmar Frangoul, "Bill Gates on why he'll carry on using private jets and campaigning on climate change," CNBC, February 7, 2023.
    • Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy, Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth In The Time Of Collapse, October 17, 2022.

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    Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist Apr 19, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Affairs Big Mac I," The New York Times, December 8, 1996.
    • Matt Taibbi's critique of Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- "Flathead" Strauss Media, November 21, 2014.
    • Jason Hickel et al., "Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015," Global Environmental Change, March 2022.
    • Thomas Friedman, "The Earth Is Full," The New York Times, June 7, 2011.
    • Thomas Friedman, "Something's Happening Here," The New York Times, October 11, 2011.
    • Thomas Friedman, "Want to Save the Earth? We Need a Lot More Elon Musks.," The New York Times, November 16, 2021.
    • Thomas Friedman, "How We Broke the World," The New York Times, May 30, 2020.
    • Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, November 1, 2011.
    • Here's the archive of Global Citizen columns by Donella Meadows.
    • Ian Parker, "The Bright Side: The relentless optimism of Thomas Friedman," The New Yorker, November 2, 2008.
    • Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999.
    • Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat, YouTube video of Yale University Lecture, 2009.
    • Garrett Graff, "Thomas Friedman is On Top of the World," Washingtonian Magazine, July 1, 2006.

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    How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class Apr 12, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • Lily Geismer wrote an outstanding and comprehensive book, published in 2022, on Clinton and the legacy of neoliberal policies called Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality.
    • Lily Geismer, "How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable," The Nation, December 13, 2022.
    • Alex Parnee, “The Disastrous Legacy of the New Democrats,” The New Republic, May 16, 2022.
    • Michael Pierce, “How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions” The Labor and Working-Class History Association, November 23, 2016.

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    How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO Apr 05, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Jack Welch, celebrated wrecker of real jobs and leading light of Wall Street wankers. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • David Gelles, The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of America—and How to Undo His Legacy(2022).
    • David Gelles, "How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed," New York Times (2022).
    • Malcolm Gladwell, "Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day--Or the Worst?," The New Yorker (2022).
    • Geoff Colvin, "The Ultimate Manager," Fortune (1999).
    • Matthew J. Belvedere, "Jack Welch says Obama’s ‘wacky’ climate-change agenda hurts the US economy," CNBC (2016).
    • "Jack Welch Fast Facts," CNN (2020).
    • Scott Tong, "This is how shareholders got to be first in line for profits," Business Insider (2016).
    • James B. Stewart, "Did the Jack Welch Model Sow Seeds of G.E.’s Decline?," New York Times (2017).
    • Jack & Suzy Welch Winning (2005).
    • Geoff Gloeckler, "Jack Welch Launches Online MBA," Bloomberg Businessweek (2009).
    • Della Bradshaw, "Jack Welch on the executive MBA he created in his own image," Financial Times (2014).
    • Jack Welch Management Institute.
    • Oxfam "Top 1% grab twice as much new wealth as everyone else combined".
    • Economic Policy Institute “CEO pay has skyrocketed".

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    How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity Mar 29, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book checks in at 672 pages -- it's called The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.
    • Kurzweil's sequel from 2022 is called The Singularity Is Nearer.
    • Brian O'Keefe, "The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth," Fortune, May 2, 2007.
    • David Hochman, "Reinvent Yourself," Playboy, April 19, 2016.
    • Episode of Doug Henning's World of Magic, 1980.
    • Society for Cryobiology
    • Singularity University
    • Sarah Begley, "The Future of Food: Experts Predict How Our Plates Will Change," Time, October 9, 2014.
    • Alan Thompson, "Dr Ray Kurzweil: 2022-2023 Updates," LifeArchitect.ai
    • Eric Brende wrote a book that counteracts some of Kurzweil's absurdities. It's called Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology.
    • The Simplicity Collective is a good organization for exploring voluntary simplicity.

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    Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual Mar 22, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet Steven Pinker whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • David Marchese, "Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong" in The New York Times Magazine (2021).
    • The Work that Reconnects Network
    • Good Grief Network
    • Three relevant past episodes of Crazy Town are episode 39 on the myth of progress, episode 35 on self-domestication, and episode 34 on terror management theory.
    • "Steven Pinker: The Mind Reader" in The Guardian (1999).
    • Robert Wright, "The 2004 Time 100" in Time Magazine (2004).
    • Nick Gillespie, "Steven Pinker Loves the Enlightenment" in Reason Magazine (2018).
    • David A. Bell, "Waiting for Steven Pinker’s enlightenment" in The Nation (2018).
    • Emile Torres, "Steven Pinker’s fake enlightenment" in Salon (2019).
    • Robert Epstein, "Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature" in Scientific American (2011).
    • Tyler Cowen, "Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence," Mercatus Center (2016).
    • Mike Freiheit and Lyta Gold, "Comic: Steven Pinker--Certified Grief Counselor" in Current Affairs 2018).
    • George Monbiot, "Contrary to Reason" in The Guardian (2018).
    • Alex Blasdel, "Pinker's progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars" in The Guardian (2021).

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    What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet? Mar 15, 2023
    Show notes

    Meet the unelected leaders of Crazy Town, who keep our collective heads in the sand while the planet burns. Please share this episode to your friends and start a conversation.

    For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.


    Sources/Links/Notes:

    • "Bundyville: The Remnant" -- long-form article and podcast by Leah Sottile.
    • Five topic categories of the Phalse Prophets season: progress myth, neoliberalism, ecomodernism, effective altruism, and doomerism.
    • Story of Bruce's Beach.
    • Yes! Magazine article on land justice.

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    Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen Feb 22, 2023
    Show notes

    Stuart McMillen is a systems thinker disguised as a cartoonist. His long-form comics condense important academic topics into understandable and entertaining works of art. Stuart tackles topics in the fields of ecology, economics, psychology, and sociology. With original drawings, thought-provoking narration, and expertly paced storytelling, he introduces readers to critical ideas that are often under-reported and underappreciated, including energy slaves, property rights, peak oil, and the war on drugs. Go behind the scenes with Stuart to learn how he crafts his comics, from his philosophy to the nitty gritty of how he makes a living. And be sure to explore his work at stuartmcmillen.com.

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    Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen Jan 11, 2023
    Show notes

    Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. With a title like that, Jason and Bob have lots of heavy ground to cover, including overshoot, the limits to growth, and the cascading environmental and social crises of our times. They conclude that there are no easy answers or silver-bullet solutions, but by focusing on sustainable size of the human population, appropriate scale of social organization, optimal scope of human competence for managing high-energy modernity, and required speed of taking action to avoid catastrophe, they home in on some strategic responses to the crises.

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