Podcasts about climate apocalypse

In this rebroadcast of Episode 17, Moby and Lindsay converse with climate scientist, environmental activist, and author Peter Kalmus. They discuss the current state of our climate reality, the science behind it, and what we can do to help our planet survive. In a fun way.  peterkalmus.net noflyclimatesci.org Twitter: @ClimateHuman Peter's book: Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution Also, if you feel called to support animals harmed in the Los Angeles fires, you can donate to LA Animal Services OR World Animal Protection.  — We want to hear from you! Shoot over an email and say hi: mobypod@moby.com   Follow @moby @linzhicks @candicebergenbagel  Part of the Human Content Podcast Network A Little Walnut Production 

This week, we are leaning into a powerful tool in the fight against climate change: storytelling. Molly talks with Greg Jacobs, co-director of The Here Now Project, about the innovative documentary, which presents climate change through the eyes of ordinary people worldwide. The film aims to evoke a sense of urgency and community around climate action, By demonstrating a series of climate shocks over the course of a single year, from a historic deep freeze in Texas to plagues of locusts and sea snot. The climate crisis is a global problem that hits home no matter where you are.LINKS:The Here Now Project: https://herenowproject.com/All episodes: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: https://www.mollywood.co/Become a member and get an ad-free version of the podcast: https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-poolPlease subscribe and tell your friends about Everybody in the Pool! Send feedback or become a sponsor at in@everybodyinthepool.com! To support the show and get an ad-free listening experience, please jump in and become a member of Everybody in the Pool! https://plus.acast.com/s/everybody-in-the-pool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the 29th UN Conference of the Parties underway preparing to save the day for the Planet, we host an analysis of some of the factors other than fossil fuels influencing global Climate change and also take a look at what major financial eco-warriors are really doing behind the curtain of mainstream media spotlight. In our first half hour, we hear a report by Greg Reese on the probable use of ENMOD strategies and the motive of supplying the US with access to lithium that was responsible for the devastation in North Carolina last month, We hear from Writer-Blogger Dmitry Orlov on the cause of climate change as rooted in the heavens rather than the Earth. And in our final half hour, Matthew Ehret, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, joins us to discuss the rise of Canadian Banker Mark Carney and his role in forging ahead with a world government and the depopulation of the planet.

Well then! Dana learned quite a powerful lesson from this book, I'd say. I suggest you take some of what we've heard to heart, too, yknow? The planet will thank you, even if some of that thanking will have to be done indirectly. I really loved reading this book on stream, and re-hearing the story as I was editing the episodes down for the podcast was quite the delight. It's got me motivated in a major way to keep trying my best to bring some small mote of what's on display here into my own life. I actually have a little garden going out in the backyard (in a series of little pots, with varying success), I've been having an absolute blast embroidering cute little this'n'thats on my clothes to keep them in good repair, I've even been searching for ways to repair the tech I've got around (or, when it needs replacing, getting fixable options!). The solarpunk movement is one made up of what feels like a thousand little decisions, which, I feel, makes it easier to get started. Don't sit there and fuss about what's most optimal, that'll get you all locked up! Start with the choices that seem simple, and remember, it's not a 4-H project, you can enjoy the journey more than the end result!  As for this little chunk of astounding, well... it's good, but it's much better when we read more of it later, y'know? Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

To be honest with you, this final act that's going on in this week's episode and the next really nails home how crushing it can feel to know there could be solutions to the sort of problems we've been experiencing of late. Well, that, and the commentary being made about the ins and outs of copyright and the importance of using that carefully! (Unstartlingly, the author is quite an advocate for Open Source, but it's also got a lot to say about corporations using the DMCA as a bludgeon)  I'm really trying to not have this description come out as dire, but the happy ending is coming in next week's episode! The return to the city is not exactly a joyous omen. I promise, it's a vital part of the story, and really makes the finale coming up super good!  Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

We inch ever closer to the answer of WHY the city does things like this in this episode, and man, does Stephens really nail the sheer confusion of someone introduced to these concepts from step one just right with the way Dana does things. There's a pervading sense of "Well if there's a better way, why aren't we bothering?" throughout this section of the book, sometimes to the point of almost feeling like we're the ones being talked to. (Which, don't get me started on how that's such a thin line to tread, between preaching to the reader, staring down the camera, in comparison to getting your point across in the tone of the story and its dialogue) (That's a major known weak point of my writing, actually) (Well that, and all these asides) Speaking of asides, I've got things to promote!  Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

We're finally getting some resolution on what was set up out front, and hoo boy, it's getting TENSE in a MAJOR WAY this time, folks! I mean, you knew it was gonna be difficult the second she decided to keep the Particular Item from the Fringers, but wow, we really have that drop at perhaps the worst possible time, not to mention just how difficult things are getting with the general conflict between the two major players here, y'know? Honestly, I could really wax on for a long time about the beautiful use of the climate as an antagonistic force in stories like this, too! It really reminds you that the world is a character, alongside the ways the humans have shaped the world. Sure, any good solarpunk story uses the infrastructure as a character, you've got to drive home that we can use technology for the betterment of the world somehow, but when the climate rears its head, like a cow prodded into the defense of the calf, that's a valuable opportunity for the story to REALLY get cooking! (I am once again tempted to get some writing done myself, there's just something about this genre that's inspiring to me beyond what it's normally aiming for, the inspiration of small action to better the world, from the reader) Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

It's really interesting, especially from my perspective, the real glory given to what amounts to subsistence farming in solarpunk tales like this. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a known enjoyer of that sort of thing, I have a garden in my backyard for a reason (and it's not just that I have a mighty need for the best feasible tomato for my various tomato needs)! But in my humble opinion, the angle that's going to really return a much more fruitful crop in regards to inspiration is the process of mending things that you've already got on hand. Plants are infamously fickle, and there's a reason a pretty broad spectrum of people's ancestors did absolutely everything possible to claw their way out of that lifestyle (it asks a TON of you, in the line of how much work you've got to get done). However, I've had great success for FAR less time in mending my own clothes, for example. Or, depending on your luck finding good instructions, you can get pretty far fixing up old technology that should be working, but isn't, for some reason! For example, I managed to resurrect a kindle that had a completely depleted battery, with nothing but a simple screwdriver, a battery I snagged on the page that explained how to do it, and maybe 30, 40 minutes? This book kinda leans in that direction, talking about the (genuinely very clever) idea of urban mining, but beyond a passing mention of doing some hand sewing on that kite material, and some (well-deserved!) lauding of the use of color to aid in creativity of the fashion, but lean in! Make visible mending a vital part of the fashion movements! Tell me all about how the screws and easily-acessible batteries make the tech repairable by anyone! It's solarpunk, we're supposed to make the infrastructure a main character after all.  (Yes, I should just write my own solarpunk stories that focus on these things) (Yes, I may or may not have written some already) (No, I haven't posted them anywhere... yet!) Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

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The kite generator mentioned here is actually some really neat tech! I kinda accidentally hit on how they work when we're talking over the potential approaches to a turbine in the kite generation system, essentially, these things take pre-established data on how the windspeed changes based on altitude, and then autonomously pilots it in a neat-looking figure eight pattern, in order to pull a tether out to spin a turbine where the windspeed is high, then move it back down to where the windspeed is low, pulling the kite back in. Interestingly, the article that I found the explanation of the mechanics in noted that the initial pitch for that company's idea was a sort of kite based sail for container ships, but that wasn't exactly an easy sell, (despite being a great idea to lean into in a solarpunk setting, I mean, the less fuel you have to burn to make those big barges go, the better, yknow?) so they pivoted to the kite generator. Anyway, if it's not obvious, there's a lot that you can really sink your teeth into in regards to learning neat stuff that's mentioned in passing in the story, even outside the things that get footnotes. Most of the technology and techniques are either actively being used, or only a few simple steps away from being actively used! Of particular note in my realm of expertise thus far in the story, the use of fractalline encryption, and mesh-based networking, are real processes that can be used. The mesh network in particular would be super handy for communicating through many smaller micronetworks, rather than the way the standard internet browsing experience focuses on a server that needs to be centrally managed. I actually wasn't very surprised to see the callout of that technique, it's a great way to handle a decentralized internet system that works in a similar fashion to those microgrids we're seeing.  Anyway, book good! More next week! Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

Phew! We made it out of the city! Luckily, now that we've got that place well behind us, we're able to see the true thrust of the world that made me fall in love with the genre as a whole, and Arcadia in specific. The technology on display being so, so close to what we've got these days is remarkably motivating, at least, in my humble opinion. I do go on in the show itself about it, most especially appealing to me being the building of aeroponic gardens in the spare storage space of the Rigs. If I ever do wind up back in the rv, you know I'm FULLY invested in building that out. I mean, I could manage to cram my stuff into the other cabinets to have the space! Sure, I don't exactly have the CRISPR knowhow to build new varieties of plants well-suited to the tightly enclosed environment, but there's plenty of things that would work just fine in that small of a space, you know? I actually wouldn't hate to try to build a sort of trellised system, where the runners from various "main" plants extend upward and diagonally to let the plants have that space to stretch their feet out, you know? Maybe this is worth trying out in the backyard... I better go get planning!    Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/

The return of author permission happens pretty quickly, turns out! Welcome to Arcadia, a world in which the years and years of using copyright law as a bludgeon to stop people from doing the easy solutions to save the planet has been taken to its logical extreme. Well, that's the perspective of our protagonist, Dana, intially anyway. However, when she can't afford the utility rates on her inherited house any longer, she's taken to an infringement center and summarily jailed. Surprise surprise, though, her brother's some kind of wild-man revolutionary, who lives outside the city. The cops (better known as Fringers, since they handle the result of Infringements) want to learn more about how her brother's surviving in the wastes outside the city, so they hand her a radio, and let a representative of the people outside come get her, in hopes that Dana will snitch. What Dana finds, however, immediately makes her hesitate, and reconsider the shape of the world around her! That's right, this is the solarpunk novel I was rattling on about being excited to read earlier in the season! Don't worry, if you don't know what solarpunk is, I explain it relatively thoroughly, and this book is a superb example of what the genre can do, when written solidly. If you like this first episode, I'd also heartily suggest looking at Miles Past Xanadu, the short story that this novel was expanded out from. That one even has citations in the relevant footnotes, believe it or not! I really love this fledgeling genre, there's a lot to enjoy in it, and like I say in the episode, it's young enough to still have some teeth, y'know? Doesn't just use the punk as a suffix to denote a vibe, it means punk, and has some words for those in power who've been obliterating our climate. Many thanks to Matt Stephens, who was kind enough to let us read the book, I really love the tale, and here's hoping you do, too!    Want to read the book? Go check it out here: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wheelers/36444581/#edition=64297035&idiq=56656333 Want the book in a nutshell first? Check out Miles Past Xanadu: https://matt-stephens.blogspot.com/2020/07/miles-past-xanadu-complete-for-later.html Have things to say, books to suggest, or just want to join another discord? Come check out mine!  https://discord.gg/PBZNsjn/  Last but not least, you want to catch stories live, well before they hit the podcast feed? Check us out, friday evenings, over on twitch!  https://www.twitch.tv/Glacier_Nester/  

The climate crisis is unfolding very day, with many inevitable consequences looming in the near future. While we may hope for clean energy or fossil fuel alternatives to save the day, climate change is more than just a technological issue—it's fundamentally a social problem. When tend to view climate change only from an ecological or technological perspective, but we require a sociological view to understand how we can collectively solve it. This week, Adam discusses these complexities with Dr. Dana Fisher, Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and author of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. They explore the role of hope in the climate crisis, strategies for collective action, and the possibility that things may worsen before they improve. Find Dana's book at factuallypod.com/booksSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/adamconoverSEE ADAM ON TOUR: https://www.adamconover.net/tourdates/SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Factually! on:» Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577» Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw4ffMc2NWydBlDyJAbout Headgum: Headgum is an LA & NY-based podcast network creating premium podcasts with the funniest, most engaging voices in comedy to achieve one goal: Making our audience and ourselves laugh. Listen to our shows at https://www.headgum.com.» SUBSCRIBE to Headgum: https://www.youtube.com/c/HeadGum?sub_confirmation=1» FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/headgum» FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/headgum/» FOLLOW us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum» Advertise on Factually! via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

4/21/24 Tom ties Jesus' teachings on apocalypse to Earth Day and global climate change.

Sander Dolder, Senior Vice President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), dives into their unique structure and goals. NYCEDC was established in the 1990s to repurpose federal properties turned over to the city, including transforming Times Square and repurposing industrial sites. Dolder discusses NYCEDC's efforts to diversify New York City's economy post-2008 recession, particularly focusing on climate transition and sustainable industries. He shares his journey from management consulting to his current role, driven by a passion for merging environmental justice work with the private sector. The discussion also touches on the challenges and opportunities in public-private partnerships, particularly in the climate technology sector, where local government interaction is crucial. Dolder emphasizes the importance of bridging gaps in ecosystem, workforce development, and infrastructure to facilitate the adoption of sustainable practices and technologies in New York City. This episode is brought to you by VSC Ventures. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning ⁠⁠PR agency VSC⁠⁠ has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like ⁠⁠Ample⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Actual⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Sesame Solar⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Synop⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vibrant Planet⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Zume⁠⁠ among many others.

England's PM Rishi Sunak (pictured) has backtracked on carbon emissions - "Sunak planning to drop net zero policies in pre-election challenge to Labour"; "Plibersek versus the environment"; "Tens of thousands in NYC march against fossil fuels as AOC hails powerful message"; "Well behind at halftime: here's how to get the UN Sustainable Development Goals back on track"; "Spring heat records shattered as Australia warms towards a long, hot summer"; "It's official. An El Nino has been declared. What does that mean?"; "E-bike manufacturers are fighting right-to-repair. That's a problem"; "Australia now in El Niño climate pattern, increasing bushfire risk, BOM says"; "A subtropical storm could drench the East Coast this weekend"; "Double whammy: What El Niño and a positive IOD will mean for spring and summer in Australia"; "‘Missing half the equation': scientists criticise Australia over approach to fossil fuels"; "Massive climate change protests in New York aim to turn up heat on Biden"; "Insurance 'under pressure' from extreme weather events"; "Tech, energy deals top the list for manufacturing fund's first $5 billion"; "France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change"; "‘Delightfully British' climate activism: Hundreds of business leaders to queue in London with green demands for MPs"; "Can We Put a Price on Climate Damages?"; "Al Gore leads international chorus of disapproval for Sunak's climate U-turn"; "Earth's Annual Average Temperatures Set to Breach 1.5°C for the First Time"; "Rate of climate-induced extinction is ‘shocking'"; "Addicted to cool"; "Business behemoths push shipping suppliers for zero-emission options"; "SDG funding gap swells to $137trn"; "Does the UK need a Regenerative Farming Task Force to boost biodiversity?"; "Electric cars will be cheaper to buy than fossil fuel vehicles within three years"; "California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception"; "‘Worst risk since black summer': NSW south coast fire danger upgraded to ‘catastrophic'"; "NSW behind on hazard reduction burns as NSW Premier Chris Minns warns of a “horror summer"; "The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim"; "Efforts to clean up power sector too slow: watchdog"; "UK backtracks on net zero environmental policies"; "Worried about climate change? You can make a difference — here's how"; "Duty of Care"; "Thousands of California wells are at risk of drying up despite landmark water law"; "Column: The oil companies lied to us about climate change. California should sue them into the ground"; "El Nino announcement comes with grim climate warning"; "How climate change worsened the catastrophic flood in Libya"; "A Young Architect's Designs for the Climate Apocalypse"; "The push for nuclear energy in Australia is driven by delay and denial, not evidence"; "Startup hits milestone in its bid to cut concrete's dirtiest ingredient"; "Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike"; "See Sunak's green retreat for what it is: a ruthless short-term electoral gamble"; "Queensland braces for high temperatures, threat of bushfires"; "‘Unacceptable costs': Britain delays petrol car ban, weakens net-zero targets"; "Net zero by 2050? Too late. Australia must aim for 2035"; "Which of the World's Hundreds of Thousands of Aging Dams Will Be the Next to Burst?"; "U.N. Chief's Test: Shaming Without Naming the World's Climate Delinquents"; "BoM declares El Nino, amid ‘catastrophic' fire risk in NSW"; "‘Nature positive' isn't just planting a few trees – it's actually stopping the damage we do"; "Here are all the climate and environment bills that California just passed"; "

Climate change is scary and it's even scarier for teenagers who feel like it's up to their generation to fix it. In an episode from the KALW original podcast tbh, teenagers tackle climate anxiety and action. Then, a reading from San Carlos author Jane Kuo. Plus, our local music segment spotlights Decant. They're playing at Berkeley Art Gallery this Friday.

Recent Newark Memorial High School graduate Meher Indoliya reflects on her feelings of climate fatigue and asks how we can stay hopeful in the face of the climate crisis.

Professor Ian Plimer is a geologist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne and an outspoken critic of the prevailing climate change narrative. He is the author of many books including ‘Not for Greens', ‘Green Murder', ‘Heaven and Earth', and ‘A Short History of Planet Earth'. On this episode of BASED, Senator Antic and Professor Plimer dig into the facts and figures about energy policy, the so-called “climate apocalypse,” and the dangerous incoherence of Net Zero.

Host Cole Smithson is a day late with the Monday Morning Wake Up this week due to technical issues on the hosting service we use. For the episode we break down the reeling DeSantis campaign, worker's rights or lack thereof and the climate apocalypse people are waking up to around the country and world. Let me know what you think. Follow me on Tik Tok @ talk_smith. Follow the show @wideawakeatthree on instagram and @wideawakeatthr3 on twitter. Subscribe, rate the show 5 stars and share with your friends.

The left is touting the end of days because it's hot.

Jamie Alexander (pictured) has studied the climate crisis and capitalism - "Capitalism and Climate Change: Moving Toward Solutions"; "No matter where we work, every job is a climate job now"; "How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming"; "Extreme Heat Is Deadlier Than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined"; "Climate change journalism in South Africa misses the mark by ignoring people's daily experiences"; "Our planet is imploding: when will we act to save ourselves?"; "Germany's great escape"; "45% of Brits say UK is ‘not at all prepared' for changing climate"; "In Iran, Some Are Chasing the Last Drops of Water"; "Texas Officials Blame Renewables for Heatwave Blackout Risk. Experts Say That's Misleading"; "Joe Rogan Is Fueling Climate Misinformation on TikTok, Watchdogs Warn"; "Texas Power Podcast"; "World Bank offers developing countries debt pauses if hit by climate crisis"; "How Climate Change and the Polar Vortex Influenced This Week's Harsh Winter Storms"; "Groundbreaking youth-led climate trial comes to an end in Montana"; "Greta Thunberg voices support for climate group shut down by France"; "Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage"; "Tesla has pulled ahead on EV charging. Now, the hard part begins"; "Rightwing war on ‘woke capitalism' partly driven by fossil fuel interests and allies"; "Shop and Sell Your Clothes Sustainably With These 13 Buyback and Resale Programs"; "Global average sea and air temperatures are spiking in 2023, before El Niño has fully arrived. We should be very concerned"; "Some homeowners pick higher flood risk over diverse neighborhood"; "World Bank to suspend debt repayments for disaster-hit countries"; "Rich nations pledge $2.7 billion for Senegal's renewable rollout"; "Development banks can boost lending by $200 billion, Paris summit statement says"; "Fossil fuels, planes, ships and shares – What will be taxed for climate funds?"; "Corn-based ethanol is not as good for the climate as once thought"; "UK and Ireland's coastal waters experience ‘unheard of' heatwave"; "Vector-Borne Disease Risk Increase"; "Power Our Planet"; "Summit for a new global financing pact takes place in Paris"; "Women-focused investments are crucial for community adaptation"; "Texas cities set temperature records amid relentless heat wave"; "A brief introduction to climate change and torrential rainstorms"; "What Is the Heat Index? Is it the Heat, the Humidity, or Both?"; "Gas stoves are even worse for our health than previously known, new study finds"; "How Extreme Heat Causes Cascading Crises"; "The Cooling Problem"; "Texas Heat Wave Shows No Signs of Letting Up"; "Countries on Front Lines of Climate Change Seek New Lifeline in Paris"; "Push for more 'resilient' houses to cope with future climate, as 'we're all footing the bill' anyway"; "Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism' as the solution"; "Are our possessions costing the Earth?". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-mclean/message

Meet Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, University of Richmond's Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment, Geography Advisor Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Development and Change, and Politics and Governance. This longtime Pipeline Protester and Environmental Activist is teaching your children to live in fear of a Climate Apocalypse. There is so much going on here that we may have to do a Part 2 to cover all of the lunacy. It is quite clear that the University of Richmond is no longer a place of higher thinking. Instead, you can spend $81,000 a year to have your child indoctrinated. Timestamps 0:00 - Meet Dr. Mary Finley-Brook 0:50 - The Climate Change Apocalypse 1:36 - Climate Grief, Eco Anxiety, and Trauma 2:55 - Youth Climate Change Lawsuits 4:01 - Energy Violence, the insidious nature of Fossil Fuels 4:38 - Finley-Brook's Support of Just Stop Oil 6:55 - The Evils of Hog Farms 7:50 - The Unceded Monacan Land 8:18 - No More Gas Stoves 9:15 - No More Oil, No More Plastic 10:19 - Suing your way to a Greener Future 11:10 - Greenwashing, Climate Denialism, Disinformation 12:11 - New Cities for the Climate Apocalypse 12:55 - Divesting University of Richmond's Endowment 14:15 - Facts or a Fanatical Religion? 15:15 - Dismantling our Survival 16:11 - Conclusion If this is your first time hearing about our ongoing battles against University of Richmond, we suggest you go over to https://urwoke.net to learn more. Check out our UR Playlist here on Youtube as well! WE POST DAILY! If you don't see us, check our other socials. If you got a favorite, we are most likely on it!The AllmyLinks has all of our Socials! - https://allmylinks.com/robisright Fair Use Disclaimer Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

This episode I am speaking with Caroline Contillo, a Disaster Equity Researcher who has been exploring somatic healing in the face of our collective impending doom (or atleast future major upheaval). Caroline has a wonderful perspective on how we can engage with the overwhelming prospect of climate change on an individual, physical level while still staying plugged into the collective community that will ultimately sustain us.  She gives us some wonderful practical somatic tools to stay grounded and even have levity in such frightening times. I'm so glad to welcome Caroline to Busy Body and look forward to having her back! Please follow, share, like, review, all that jazz. It helps spread the word! Fan mail and questions for future shows to info@brooklynstrength.comFollow Busy Body Podcast on IG @brooklynstrength for free content to help your body feel better and opportunities to work with me directly.Resources mentioned or related to this episode:Relational UprisingThe Politics of TraumaAdrienne Maree Brown The Body Keeps Score

Guest host Alissa Wilkinson talks with Dorothy Fortenberry, a co-showrunner, executive producer, and writer on Extrapolations, the new star-studded anthology series on Apple TV+ that imagines the ravages of climate change deeper and deeper into the future. Alissa and Dorothy discuss the challenges of making film and television about the climate crisis, the role that religion plays on the show and in addressing the emotional responses to climate change in our lives, and how climate change can rob us not only of our future — but of our past. Host: Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie), senior culture writer, Vox Guest: Dorothy Fortenberry (@Dorothy410berry), writer/executive producer, Extrapolations on Apple TV+ References:  Extrapolations on Apple TV+ "Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home," encyclical of Pope Francis (May 24, 2015) "A Review: The Lotus Paradox at Warehouse Theatre" (Jan. 31, 2022) "Latin Mass, women priests, celibacy? Climate change will make all the church's arguments pointless" by Dorothy Fortenberry (America; Oct. 27, 2021)   Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of The Gray Area. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Engineer: Patrick Boyd Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have humans always been haunted by fears of a climate apocalypse? Or is that a modern phenomenon? Is there a continuity from the Curse of Akkad to the Industrial Revolution? Listen as Tom and Dominic are joined by Peter Frankopan to discuss the history of the climate.*The Rest Is History Live Tour April 2023*:Tom and Dominic are going on tour in April 2023 and performing in London, Edinburgh, and Salford! Buy your tickets here:https://robomagiclive.com/the-rest-is-history/Twitter: @TheRestHistory@holland_tom@dcsandbrook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new general to oversee his war in Ukraine, the fourth since the war began. His desire to bring the war to a successful conclusion remains elusive. Law enforcement interventions in Germany and Britain this week have many concerned that Iran is ramping up its terrorist activity against Western nations. The “Twitter Files” exposés keep coming, revealing more and more about how government agencies invented lies to smear Donald Trump and exercised illegal power over the supposedly private social media giant. We also talk about Israel's government outlawing the flying of Palestinian flags in public, China trying to win friends in Western nations, Germans blaming climate change on capitalism, Lebanese protesting government inaction, and Gen. Michael Flynn having his Twitter account reinstated, which could have significant political implications for America. Links [00:36] Putin's Latest New General (9 minutes) “Bible Prophecy Comes Alive in Ukraine” [09:46] Iran Provokes Europe (10 minutes) “German Police Arrest Two Suspected Iranian Terrorists” “Suspected Iranian WMD Plot Investigated in Britain” TRENDS: “Why the Trumpet Watches Iran and Europe Heading for a Clash of Civilizations” [19:44] More “Twitter Files” (8 minutes) “‘Twitter Files': How the FBI Hacked Twitter” “Nunes Memo Exposes Unseen Threat to America” [28:02] Israel Bans Palestinian Flags (8 minutes) Jerusalem in Prophecy [35:56] China Tries Befriending the West (7 minutes) “Asia Still Stands With Putin” [43:22] Flynn Reinstated to Twitter (4 minutes) “Gen. Michael Flynn Restored to Twitter on January 6 Anniversary” “Silencing a Critic,” Chapter 5 in America Under Attack [47:15] Germans Against Capitalism (3 minutes) “Germans Blame the Climate Apocalypse on America” “The Deadly Climate Change Deception” [50:33] Lebanon Protests (5 minutes) “Why We Told You to Watch Lebanon” “The Beirut Blast: Catalyst for Biblical Prophecy” “Civil War Is Simmering in Lebanon”

When a sacred lake bursts into toxic flames, and the temple at its shore is charred, the resident goddess flees. Where can She go? Highlighting the paradox between Hinduism's view of water as female, sacred and sentient, and the endemic pollution of water resources and climate- driven drought in contemporary India, this ethnographic and archival project considers the existential ethics at stake in apocalyptic climate change. If water is life, as our popular understanding suggests, we ask, what is a life without water? Visiting Professor of South Asian Religions and Women's Studies in Religion Program 2022-23 Research Associate Tulasi Srinivas explores these questions in this lecture. This event took place on October 13, 2022 Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/news/public-events-calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D162700917

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Development vs Climate change: Has climate change become an increasingly relevant factor in geopolitics? Does the authoritarian setup of China's government mean that in its singular focus on industrial development, it's become averse to taking cognisance of climate change? We discuss this in this episode of Geeta's World. Tune in!

In episode 1292, Jack and Miles are joined by activist, comedian, and co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, Zahra Noorbakhsh, to discuss... European Heat Wave: The Predictions Are Becoming Reality a Lot Sooner, So … Are Skittles Poison Now? And more! European Heat Wave: The predictions are becoming reality a lot sooner So … Are Skittles Poison Now? Dunkin' Donuts ditches titanium dioxide – but is it actually harmful? The Strange Connection Between Ranch Dressing And Sunscreen Nano-sized additives found in many foods, cosmetics Food additive or carcinogen? The growing list of chemicals banned by EU but used in US LISTEN: Devil by Alx Beats See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour 3, Chris talks about a letter from congressional staffers demanding Climate Action or we are all doomed, and we play audio from AOC being looney on the topic of the weather.  Also a former Oath Keeper testifies at the Jan 6 committee then runs to MSNBC to tell them he's queer.  Also, make sure to visit Biden dot com for a fun surprise. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour 2, Chris examines the possible connection between these lonely young gunmen and the concept that the earth is doomed anyway and we're all going to die because of the weather.  Also some great callers add to the conversation. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday. To join the conversation, check us out on twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio or on iTunes! Welcome back to the Reckoning Press podcast. It's been ages, but we're ramping up to a lot of cool new stuff in the coming year and beyond, including lots more podcasts, a fundraiser to increase payrates to 10c/word, $50/page for poetry and pay staff better too, t-shirts, pins, who knows what else. Homebrew recipes. Foraging instructions. Bespoke lectures about culling invasive species. We're flush with ideas, as we should be, but we're always looking for more. Drop us a line if you've got any? Reckoning Press is a US-based nonprofit; we flourish under your regard. Please support us on Patreon, consider donating directly, buy a book or an ebook, read our contributors' beautiful work for free online, and submit! We're always open to submissions, we're always excited in particular to read work from Black, brown, Indigenous, queer, disabled, trans, or otherwise marginalized poets, writers and artists. You can find all this and more on our website at: reckoning.press/support-us. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or by visiting reckoning.press/audio. Thank you very much for listening. Hi folks, Joey Ayoub, the swift-talking and firily intellectual host of the excellently named political SF podcast The Fire These Times, asked me if I would record this essay for him. He's devoted quite a bit of time on the podcast to the theory and efficacy of solarpunk, and this is great and necessary work--as you may know I am extremely enthusiastic about criticism of solarpunk--I feel like the more critical thinking we devote to the direction we're all taking in imagining a livable, equitable, practicable future, the better chance we have of pulling it off. I had not until this moment thought of this essay, "On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse", as part of solarpunk. I wrote it as the editorial for Reckoning 2 back in 2017, when I was still the editor and not merely the publisher of Reckoning, but even then, I'd been thinking of Reckoning as a counterpoint to solarpunk. A journal of creative writing about environmental justice. A practical, constructive approach to imagining the future, a repudiation of climate denialism, fatalism, ecofascism, an acknowledgement of and focus on the feelings all this evokes for us now, in the present. That's what this essay is. And I dearly hope that solarpunk has adapted and will continue to adapt to encompass all that. Because we need a big tent. A tent big enough to hold the world? My kid is almost five now. Hopefully that means I've got some distance from the feelings that drove me to write this, but I should warn you that every other time I have attempted to read this aloud has involved tears.

Author of "A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse" Vítězslav Kremlík discusses the doomsday predictions of the climate alarmists and the natural climate cycle that has shaped the history of mankind since the beginning of time. The globalists who want global government make scary predictions which they use as pretext for more and more regulations. In the past, the earth was warmer and there was great climate change in periods when absolutely no human industry existed. Natural changes in climate have caused economies to collapse and empires to fall throughout history. Climate alarmism is very detrimental to one's mental health and totally irrational, the world has become better, safer, and more prosperous. Climate and pandemic policies are leading toward a Chinese-style social credit system. True environmentalism deals with toxic pollution, over-fishing, protecting wildlife, and managing resources. Watch On BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble Geopolitics & Empire · Vítězslav Kremlík: Climate Apocalypticism is Being Used as an Excuse for Global Government #299 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Guide to the Climate Apocalypse https://www.climateapocalypse.eu Klimaskeptik https://www.klimaskeptik.cz iDNES Blog https://kremlik.blog.idnes.cz About Vítězslav Kremlík Vítězslav Kremlík (*1976) comes from the Czech Republic. During the studies of history at the university he was fascinated by the way how climate change affected human history. It was usually the cold periods that caused the trouble. As PhD student at Charles University he currently studies sociology of post-normal science, the postmodern mix of science and politics. Frequent guest of Czech radio and television programmes dealing with climate change. Lives in Prague, married, father of a daughter. His favorite book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio or on iTunes! Today I'm going to read you an essay by Paulo da Costa, "Enclosures", from Reckoning 6. I think of this piece as a new perspective in an ongoing conversation that started, for me, with Kate Schapira's essay "On Political Change, Climate Change, and the Choice to Not Have Children" that appeared in Catapult in 2017, and my editorial piece in Reckoning 2, "On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse" (which just ran in audio form on the excellent Lebanese political podcast The Fire These Times, and which we're planning on re-running here sometime in the next couple weeks). It's a conversation that leads from all the young people all over the world who are throwing themselves out in front of the extractive capitalist machine, begging for a future, and asks how we, the older generation, parents and potential parents and caregivers and people who love children everywhere, are to prepare them for this future we and our parents and ancestors have made for them. How do we adapt the values and skills and ways of understanding the natural world that nurtured us which were instilled in us by older generations in such a way as to honor what they taught us but not let our children be bound, doomed, by all the parts of that which cannot sustain. It's a long, hard conversation, and I'm very grateful to Paulo for continuing it. I also think this works brilliantly as a followup to the discussion Juliana Roth, E.G. Condé and Priya Chand had here the other week about animal rights and consciousness. I should warn you that this essay is full of some quite vivid cruelty to animals. Also, I should prepare you for the fact that my foreign language background is in Spanish; paulo speaks Portugese and there is a great deal of Portugese in this story which I am going to muck up considerably. Thank you for bearing with me. [Bio below.] "Enclosures" by paulo da costa

Way back in 2018, the theater wizards behind Control Group Productions started dreaming about what it might feel like to live in a not-so-distant future Denver wrecked by climate change. Then the pandemic came along and, as they say, “helped with that.” This weekend, they are premiering The End, an immersive bus tour of our local culture and ecology — just, you know, a heck of a lot drier, meaner, and set in that imagined future. City Cast producer and resident theater buff Lizzie Goldsmith got a sneak peak behind the scenes of The End, talking with cast members Caroline Sharkey and Krista Zozulia. Today on the show, she brings us along for an early preview of the apocalypse. Producer Paul Karolyi mentioned Denver's public pools and the application to become a lifeguard. Please share it far and wide so our public pools can stay open longer! Looking for a good way to help stave off climate catastrophe? Peyton Garcia takes a look at lawn replacement and native plant alternatives in today's CCD newsletter: https://denver.citycast.fm/newsletter/ Hang out with us on Twitter @citycastdenver Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Denver Film presents Film on the Rocks CU Boulder's Master of Arts in Journalism Entrepreneurship  Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special episode in which Michael J. DeLuca reads out an essay he wrote for Issue 2 of Reckoning entitled 'On Having a Kid in the Climate Apocalypse'. The episode includes an updated intro by Michael as well. Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Photo by Oxana Lyashenko on Unsplash

Why should it matter that a Portuguese man of war, a by the wind sailor, and violet sea snails are pictured together? Ecologist and scientist Vincent Hyland of the eco-educational body, Wild Derrynane, speaks to Jerry.

Today, the entire world is witnessing global climate change and numerous climate disasters. And to our sincere regret, modern science does not have the necessary knowledge and technology to prevent these destructive phenomena, which are caused by astronomical cyclicity.

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Kyle Devine's 2019 book Decomposed: A Political Ecology of Music is making waves. As Devine explains, the book started as an investigation of the nostalgic return of the vinyl record, a seemingly “backwards” trend in current music consumption. However, the more he looked into the issue, the more he was challenged by the story of the music's material presence as data in the age of mechanical reproduction. His key takeaway, and stark truth: recording technology, from shellac discs, to vinyl LPs, CDs, mp3s, and contemporary streaming services, comes with environmental impacts. What music is made of matters, and its cost to the natural world is a problem of “political ecology.”In this final episode of our first season Chris takes us through the book, looking for resonances and intersections with the Sounding History project. As a historian of empire he finds parallels, for instance, between the music industry's environmental costs and empire's human toll, up to and including mass enslavement: whether in the sugar slaveocracies of the Caribbean, or the server farms of Iceland, empire's environmental costs have too often been concealed “just over the horizon.”Yet despite our enthusiasm for the book, we are not entirely convinced by some portions of Devine's account. We reflect, for example, upon the price (in deforestation and exploitative labor) of the shellac record, as against the liberation and democratization that easily accessible recording technology brought to subaltern and minoritized musical experiences in the early twentieth century. Shellac records made it possible, wherever musicians and technology could come together, for people (“the people,” even) to tell their stories in sound. Without shellac, we believe, there would have been no blues revolution, no Ma Rainey, no Robert Johnson, even, no jazz. It turns out that the social-environmental-historical-economic impact of datafied music is not an easy nut to crack.We thus end the podcast (and our first season!) with a quick glimpse of some work Tom is doing at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national center for data science and AI, where he directs the project “Jazz as Social Machine.” Today machine learning agents drive cars, diagnose disease, play chess, and design buildings–among many other human tasks. Such autonomous systems also improvise jazz. It turns out, though, that jazz improvisation is apparently harder than driving a car! Why? The answer has to do with risk, historical “consciousness,” and the attitudes towards “getting it wrong” that underpin the algorithms of the machine learning revolution.Key PointsMusic objects, Kyle Devine argues in his book Decomposed: A Political Ecology of Music, come with considerable environmental costs, both from their materials (the chemicals used to make vinyl records and CDs, for instance) and the energy required to make them widely available (for example the consumption of electricity to sustain the server farms than underpin music streaming).Of all the many human tasks that are now subject to takeover by machine learning agents, jazz improvisation turns out to be a particularly thorny challenge, perhaps because so much of machine learning depends on the avoidance of risk.ResourcesYou can learn more about the environmental costs of music in Kyle Devine's Decomposed: A Political Ecology of MusicHis argument is summarized in an article he wrote in 2015 for the journal Popular Music.You can find out more about Tom's project “Jazz as Social Machine” on the Alan Turing Institute Website.The Musica project, led by Kelland Thomas and Donya Quick, is at the Stevens Institute of Technology.For more on the technological transformation wrought by shellac records, you can revisit a recommendation from earlier in our Season I, Michael Denning's Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Music Revolution.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

We begin with a famous (and very beautiful) aria from the Abduction from the Seraglio K. 384 by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (Mozart nerd alert: he never called himself “Amadeus,” ever, and we aren't going to either). It's from the beginning of Act 3, as the tenor hero, Belmonte, prepares to rescue his kidnapped bride Konstanze and her companion Blöndchen from the palace of Basha Selim. We are in an obviously sticky–and potentially deadly–situation. The music, beginning with a serene yet at times painfully dissonant introduction in the winds, takes listeners to a different place, where, although time moves at different speed, things sound absolutely familiar.Much ink has been spilled on Mozart's relationship to the music of his native Austria's near neighbours, the Turks. Tom suggests here that, in the late eighteenth century, the sound of the Islamic world was not far away at all, especially not from Vienna, the city in and for which Mozart wrote the Abduction. In fact, while writing the opera Mozart was living right in the middle of an unstable and fluid borderland between the “West” and its Ismamic “others.” The Ottoman Empire was only a few days' journey away. Today you could cover the distance in a matter of hours. In fact if you map the performances of the Abduction in its early years, you see the routes of the traveling troupes who made the opera a hit across Europe heading closer and closer to the Islamic world that lay on Mozart's doorstep. Thinking about Belmonte's aria as a musical sign of the “in-between” opens up new historical perspectives on a beloved opera and, potentially, on how sound divides (or links) people who share the occupation of geographical spaces.The theme of shared space takes us East for our second postcard, to contemporary Singapore. Drawing on recent fieldwork by the Singapore musicologist Tong Soon Lee, Chris explores how the Islamic call to prayer, repeated five times daily across the Muslim world, delineates sonic space in the city-state, which, like the borderlands of Austria two centuries previously, has a long history complicated by empire, commerce, migration and ethnic/religious diversity. The difference is that cities are smaller, tighter, and sonically far more dense than are the sprawling pastures, fields, and forests of agriculture. In the urban cityscape, borders can be perceived between neighborhoods, streets, or even individual people in their houses. Since independence, Singapore's semi-democratic/semi-authoritarian government has found itself playing the role of sonic referee, seeking to leave room for the city's Islamic majority population to live their beliefs in public via the Call to Prayer, while preserving a soundscape with uninvaded spaces for everyone. Referencing Lee, Chris talks us through how the Call to Prayer itself has implicated contested claims to  public religious sound in Singapore's multi-ethnic environment, and the ways that new conceptions of “space,” technology, and privacy yield renewed modes of religious expression. In Singapore, via the direction/redirection of the Call's loudspeakers (first outward toward the city, and then later inward toward the mosque), and subsequently via the broadcast of the Call, on its five-times-daily schedule, on radio and then television, Muslims can enter shared sonic space–a “virtual mosque” whose religious community is real and renewed. When competing imperial, democratic, or authoritarian soundscapes collide, as Tom suggested and Chris elaborates, there are no easy answers. But some of the solutions, both past and present, offer fascinating clues to how sound makes, unmakes, and reinvents community.In a fascinating preview of an upcoming episode, Chris and Tom pivot to a related discussion of the power of electronic media–and specifically of radio–to create not only a shared “virtual” environment (for Muslim worship, for example) but even a new national identity. Colonial and postcolonial sounds are a key theme in the podcast, so we chat briefly about the great singer Umm Kulthum (1898-1975), an icon of modernizing Egypt who used powerful Cairo-based radio, and then television and film, to forward a vision of the nation whose political power its second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) himself recognized and exploited. On Thursday nights during her broadcasts, traffic would halt in the streets, and shops would open their doors, as the broadcast voice of Umm Kulthum poured forth across the Arab world, literally sounding a new Egyptian nation into being.When competing imperial, democratic, or authoritarian soundscapes collide, as Tom suggested and Chris elaborates, the sonic consequences can be complex. But listening carefully to sound as history, both past and present, can offer fascinating clues to how what we can hear makes, unmakes, and reinvents community.Key PointsIt is easy to fall into overly black-and-white categories when thinking about how people define themselves in sound. If you take a closer look, mapping soundworlds across political spaces, sometimes you can come to surprising and historically enlightening conclusions.Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio K. 384 (1782) is sometimes thought of as an “East vs. West” kind of piece. We argue that the opera can also be understood to reveal how much the European and Islamic worlds had in common, and–even more significantly–how much they saw themselves as sharing a common geography.Contemporary cities yield complex soundscapes. Attempts to regulate public religious sound, for example the Islamic call to prayer in Singapore, indicate how delicate the politics of a shared soundscape can be.Electronic media has a huge power to make new identities across borders, and disrupt older ones. One great example is the Arab-language singer Umm Kulthum, whose special brand of song and music played an enormous role in the birth of Egypt as a nation after decolonization.ResourcesIf you are interested in mapping eighteenth century music, run, don't walk, to the Twitter feed of the music historian Austin Glatthorn (@AJGlatthorn).The work of Tong Soon Lee, who teaches at Lehigh University, is indispensable to understanding the soundscapes of contemporary Singapore.The Guardian UK has a good retrospective biography of Umm Kulthumm, and of her continuing symbolic impact across the East.Charles Hirschkind's The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics presents a complementary and sophisticated “take” on the use of another modern technology, the audio cassette, as a means of virtual community in the modern world.The go-to book on Mozart's use of Turkish musical materials is Matthew Head's, Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music.You can't go wrong with the classic 1987 recording of the Abduction from the Seraglio conducted by Georg Solti and featuring stars such as Editha Gruberová, Kathleen Battle, and Hans Zednik. Available on Apple Music and many other services.Speaking of strange and wonderful productions of the Abduction, we highly recommend the Pacific Opera Project's 2016 Star Trek (!) version.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

Are all countries obliged to tighten their belts equally for the sake of climate change? Based on our current efforts, have we reached a point of no return? And do we need a new narrative to change that? In this episode, Sandip Roy is joined by Jnanpith award winner and writer Amitav Ghosh to answer these questions, and to talk about his latest book, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.Also in the end, an audio postcard from Shillong.

Grace Chang (Ge Lan, 葛蘭/葛兰), (born 1933) was a breakthrough star in one of several  Golden Ages of Hong Cinema, this one around around 1960. For a comparatively short time between the mid fifties and sixties, Chang was one of the most popular screen stars in the Chinese-speaking world outside of the People's Republic. She encapsulated a new female ideal for aspirational audiences on the Western side of the divide in Cold War East Asia: a woman who was young, mobile, pleasure-seeking, and most importantly empowered to play the main role in her own life's dramas. Her films, comic and dramatic alike, explored themes such as youth culture, urbanization, family breakdown, and sexual emancipation. And man could she sing.This episode's first postcard explores Chang's 1960 film Wild, Wild Rose (野玫瑰之戀/野玫瑰之恋) directed by Wong Tin-Lam with music by Ryōichi Hattori. We open in an upscale Hong Kong nightclub. Chang, the tragic heroine, is singing a Latin jazz version of the Habanera from Bizet's Carmen. Yet the fact that she's singing Bizet – this is a retelling of the Carmen story after all – is not even the most unexpected thing about the performance: what's even more interesting is how she sings it. In this version, Chang gets through a wide range through what Chris calls “a spontaneous combustion of dance music,” in a jazz idiom that “refracts” styles from Latin (one of her previous films was Mambo Girl, 1957) to boogie-woogie, all delivered in a one-off vocal growl that actually echoes sounds from Chinese spoken theater.You'll have to listen to the episode to hear more of our take on what this brilliant mixture means, but as Tom says, the scene has a “double bottom.” If you look–and listen–underneath its surface, you find layers of context that echo 1920s Japan, wartime Shanghai under Japanese occupation, and 1950s Hong Kong, that last a distant outpost of the collapsing British Empire, now beginning a rapid transformation from poverty towards, outwardly at least, shiny capitalist prosperity.We finish the first part of the episode by dwelling on Chang's guitar, a chrome-plated resonator that looks an awful lot like the kind that Hawaiian players like Sol Hoopii and bluesmen like Tampa Red had made famous three decades earlier. They are in fact very similar: as objects of music technology, these unique guitars tie Chang and the “American” players together like nodes in a network.Unlike Chang, who faded into unjustifiable obscurity after she retired suddenly in 1964, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) lived on after his untimely death as a central figure in the collective mythography of the Delta Blues. But memories can deceive. Our argument in the second half of the episode is that Johnson's reputation as a brilliant, naive genius (a “memory” backed up by Son House's suggestions that he somehow sold his soul to the Devil in return for musical secrets, as implied in Walter Hill's problematic 1987 film Crossroads) flies in the face of what actually happened. If you peel back the layers of the mythographic onion, in place of a tortured and doomed musical superman, we find a brilliant and intentional musical synthesist with a special genius at making new technologies resonate together. Visual evidence is key to what we are claiming. It's easy, Chris explains, to read the famous cover painting of the iconic Columbia Records two-LP gatefold album (see website), which depicts Johnson playing and singing directly into the corner of a San Antonio hotel room, as evidence of man so self-consciously shy, so removed from functional social skills, that he literally could only play to the wall. But what Johnson was really doing was sculpting sound, using the corner of the room to “corner load” the acoustics of the recording, intentionally and artfully compressing his acoustic Gibson L1's sound and boosting its signal as Jimi Hendrix would later do via effects pedals with his electric Stratocasters. In pulling everything he could out of new microphone technology and the unique acoustical demands of his art form, Johnson, in other words, was a conscious, expert, and intentional artist: a master engineer of the Delta Blues.Key PointsDespite the proliferation of oversimplified expectations, presumptions, and definitions, jazz is not a fixed thing. Like any musical style, jazz–in its sounds, practices, and expressive goals– is what people who make it say it is. The spread of “jazz”  to East Asia before and after World War II is a usefully complicated example.The 1960 Hong Kong film Wild, Wild, Rose, starring the breakout star Grace Chang, demonstrates how jazz sounds and associations traveled, and how listening in new ways can deepen understanding of global processes of commerce, politics, and technology.Objects such as musical instruments–in our example Chang's resonator guitar, which looks an awful lot like those made famous by 1930s Hawaiian and blues players, are like nodes in a network. Although they are “only” objects, those objects–and their meaning to users–can help us make new links and tell new stories.The story of Robert Johnson shows how tempting it is for popular histories to turn into mythical figures. In Johnson's case his reputation as a tortured, untamed genius has obscured his role as a brilliant and intentional technological and stylistic innovator.ResourcesMichael Denning's Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Revolution has really shaped our thinking about how technology can drive musical change across global networks.For a further account of Grace Chang's brief and remarkable career we highly recommend the chapters on her in Jean Ma, Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema.Ryōichi Hattori's career as a pioneer of jazz in Japan is covered in Tyler Atkins, Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan.The Wild, Wild, Rose is not currently available to stream, but clips from several of its scenes can be found on YouTube.Perry Henzel's The Harder they Come is available on many streaming services.Walter Hill's 1987 film Crossroads, which perpetuates myths about Robert Johnson, is available to stream. You can also listen to Ry Cooder's excellent soundtrack wherever you get your music.Our thanks go to roots music master Ry Cooder for the initial insight about Robert's corner-loading! "Ry Cooder: Talking Country Blues," by Jas Obrecht, Guitar Player magazine, July 1990.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

Comparing cultural expressions is a risky enterprise:  especially, in our case, because too many  still perceive Western “classical” art music to be somehow superior to other  musics because of its alleged and “universal” values. But we think the challenge can be worthwhile, especially at a deeper level, because it can help us  tease out complementary ways rulers use sound to literally underscore their political power. In today's episode we investigate music and power in the Black Atlantic, where European and African musics collided in history.Our first example is that of the Italo-French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), who often features as the father of French opera. We focus on his role as composer of lavish multimedia productions known more formally as tragédies en musique, tragedies set to music and celebrating his patron Louis XIV. These fusions of music, drama, and dance were pure political spectacle, and in Louis's younger years even involved the king himself as a dancer. The king was dancing because the purpose of a tragédie en musique was to place the king's body (which itself represented France, to contemporary ways of thinking) at the center of a complex piece of theatre. The point was not so much to entertain the audience, which often consisted of France's political elite, but to remind them of the king's absolute power. Lully made a career of creating works like these. Tom unpacks Lully's work, his dismissal by Louis after a sexual scandal (with a digression to the composer's subsequent death of gangrene as the result of a self-inflicted wound sustained while directing music) and turns, finally, to Louis's global political ambitions. Had those ambitions  been fully realized, the cultural world of the Black Atlantic (and thus our music history) would have been much more French.Chris's postcard takes us to the soundworlds of the great empires of sub-Saharan West Africa in the pre-colonial era. He starts with the Empire of Mali, whose first emperor, Sundiata Keita (ruling  in the thirteenth century CE) is memorialized in magnificent musical-epic poetry that has been passed down by oral and aural tradition. The bearers of this memory are called jeliat in the languages of West Africa (in French: griot). Chris explains how rulers of empires such as Mali depended on the jeliat, whose memorized epics were key sources of historical, genealogical, and legal knowledge, to tell their stories and legitimize their power.We then attempt one of those challenging cross-cultural comparisons. Did Lully serve as a kind of praise-singerto Louis XIV? On the face of it certainly. Yet  historical comparisons are never simple or neutral. Just look at where we would be likely to encounter Lully's music today: in “classical” opera houses or in other formats popular with elites in the “global north,” who are often culturally conditioned to value “timeless classics,” not political messages. In contrast the musical aesthetics and outputs  of the oral-aural epics of West Africa, which are still performed by musicians who claim direct lineage to their predecessors at the court of Sundiata, are more likely to pop up on playlists of “traditional” or “world” music. Both are “old” music, so why is one “classical” and the other “traditional”?The answer is the Western colonization of Africa, the flows of labor, energy, and data that made it possible, and--in turn--the influence of the jelat tradition on the vernacular musics of the Black Atlantic, which underpin nearly so many pop music genres today, from the Delta Blues to hip-hop. Music, it seems to us, is never unmoored from political and economic realities.Key PointsIn different ways around the world, political power and music mix.The prestigious genre of French “tragedy in music” formed in the late seventeenth century in lavish spectacles that told stories about the political power of Louis XIV, the “Sun King”The great poetic epics of the West African Empires, such as the Sundiata Epic from the court of the Empire of Mali, functioned similarly.Lully's operas live on, often stripped of their political meaning, in Western “classical” music. The West African epics live on too, as African “traditional music.” Some of their ethos informs the popular genres today that stem from the collision of European and African cultures in the era of the Black Atlantic, with its trade in goods and enslaved people.ResourcesWe are fans of Gérard Corbiau's 2000 film costume drama Le roi danse (even if it's somewhat over the top!). Excerpts are available widely on YouTube and other platforms. The soundtrack is available on CD or download from Deutsche Grammophon, and the streaming services Apple Music and Spotify.Timothy Blanning's book The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 is an excellent introduction to the use of cultural spectacle to underpin political power.Eric Charry's Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa is a masterful situation of “traditional” music as part of contemporary West Africa aesthetics and politics.Christopher Waterman's Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music places the proverb-rich Yoruba contemporary vocal/instrumental music juju in contemporary West African context.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

This episode is about what happens when sounds and people meet and mix. A lot of what we talk about takes place away from North America and Europe, but we end up circling back to a primary question in this season of the podcast: how did Westerners use the sounds of others to perceive the world, “The West,” and themselves?Our first example is one of those historical stories that is so, well, weird you have to wonder if it is actually fiction. In the early years of the seventeenth century Chinese officials discovered a thousand year-old stone pillar (or “steele”) near the city of Xi'an in Western China, along the old east-west trade route known as “the Silk Road.” It was inscribed both in Chinese and Syriac, a form of Aramiac in which many early Christian texts are transmitted. Recently arrived Jesuit missionaries were quick to pick up on this find, because it supported their claim that Christianity had a long history in China. They also transmitted the news back to Rome. Then the fun starts. The great Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, famous among other things for his collection of interesting objects and texts from around the world, used what he read about the stone to speculate about the intonation of the Chinese language (and China's relationship to ancient Egypt!). A few decades later a minor German clergyman in then very provincial Berlin read Kircher's account and proposed the idea that in China people sang all the time (as if they were in an opera) instead of speaking. Our point is that conclusions about far-away places don't have to be true to be interesting.Our second postcard was inspired by a TikTok meme. At the time we recorded the show, sea shanties were everywhere on the internet, thanks mainly to the music-video sharing app ability to amplify strange (we would say interesting!) sound objects: the app can act as a kind of digital version of Kircher's collection of curiosities. This got us thinking about where sea shanties, and other seafaring songs come from.And so we found ourselves talking about whaling ships. As Chris points out, whalers, which were really floating factories, were a kind of Silk Road on the water, thanks to their global routes and diverse crews. They also remind us that music history, economic history, exploration, and extraction often run along the same tracks. The sea shanty meme was good fun (for most listeners!). But sea shanties, and other songs from the riches of maritime history, are more than just curiosities. They offer vital sonic clues about big processes, fascinating moments, and human experience in global history.Key TakeawaysHistorical misunderstandings can be interesting in their own right: take the story of how the discovery of an ancient monument in China led one European to speculate that Chinese people sang all the time as if they were in an opera. Behind this odd idea is a story of someone struggling to make sense of new historical evidence.Whaling ships and other workhorses of the maritime trade were both “floating factories” and fascinating soundscapes. The music passed down from them (including the recent TikTok sea shanty craze) offer clues about these soundscapes, and the ways that music history and the histories of economics (especially the history of working people) travel on the same tracks.ResourcesDaniel Chua and Alexander Rehding's Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth got us thinking about how it can be illuminating to speculate about how other people--OK, they're talking about space aliens--make sense of sound.Bathsheba Demuth's Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a must read on the entanglements of ecology and economy. The author is a former dog-sled musher.We're very inspired by Peter Linbaugh and Markus Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, which profoundly shapes our thinking about labor and maritime trade.Check out the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs for thought-provoking stories about science, exploration, and “life at the extreme” presented by the historian Michael Robinson.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

The machines that make the biggest difference are the ones that make things move and bring people together. This week, our postcards take us to critical moments in the history of technology: the completion of the Erie Canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie across northern New York state, and the development of the first civilian computers just after the Second World War. In both stories there is a surprising amount at stake for music history.Just clearing a path for and then digging the Erie Canal (mile by mile, by hand) required an immense and dangerous effort. There were not enough workers available, so migrants, many from Britain and Ireland, but also free and enslaved people of color, were brought in to do the job. When the work was done the canal accelerated travel and communication, connecting the metropolis of New York to an immense hinterland to the west. The canal gave the new nation a vastly different sense of its borders and identity. Those who had given their labor (and in some cases their lives) to make it forged soundworlds for this new space. In the evenings and on rare days off they sang and danced together, making new kinds of music. What they did–a kind of synthesis travelling back and forth on the wonder they had built--would go on to underpin what we recognize as “American music” today. After 1945 Alan Turing, who had spent the war working in secret developing the electronic computers that helped break “unbreakable” German codes, helped set up a civilian computer lab at the University of Manchester. Turing was by all accounts not a particularly musical man, but there were good ears on his team. One night, for fun (!), one of Turing's junior colleagues, Christopher Strachey, used an alarm signal already built into a prototype computer to make a basic synthesizer, with hilarious-sounding but in the long run profound results. Thanks to recently discovered archival recordings we can hear its honky efforts, and the sleep-deprived giggles of Turing's young colleagues when they heard what they had done. The members of Turing's lab might not have known it, but what they did eventually opened up a wholly new chapter in the datafication of music. Like the workers on the Erie Canal two centuries ago, we suddenly find that our musical borders have shifted dramatically. Unlike them we ask ourselves where music “is” if it now only lives in digital code.Key PointsThe construction of the Erie canal brought labor and technology together to make new kinds of music, and the connections it made forged a new sense of American identity, also in sound.Alan Turing was involved in efforts to develop the first civilian computers in Britain after World War Two. Although they didn't set out to do so, members of his team found that they could synthesize musical sound, inadvertently setting the stage for the cultures of digital music we now live in.ResourcesChris Smith's The Creolization of American Culture: William Sydney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy explores how working people came together before the Civil War to make a new kind of “American” culture.In Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music Kyle Devine explores the idea that digital music is just as material music on other media (such as shellac, vinyl, and plastic), and just as bad for the environment.The IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electronics Engineers) website has a detailed and engaging description of early computing and music-making in Alan Turing's postwar Manchester lab.You can read more about Alan Turing in B. Jack Copeland, Alan Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age.All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

Colonialism reconfigured the world economy around the extraction of natural resources and the exploitation of humans to provide the labor for that extraction. A by-product was profound change to how people made, heard, and paid for music. In this episode we talk about what sound has to do with the Anthropocene, explore how profits from the slave trade had a direct impact on European musical life in the eighteenth century, and immerse ourselves in the soundscape, full of colliding cultural experiences, of a Jamaican dance hall at the turn of the 19th century.We begin by grappling with the Anthropocene, the era of human-caused climate change. There are solid arguments that it was sparked by European colonialism. Together we explain how empire, as early as 1600 CE, contributed to a “Little Ice Age,” before industrialization--and the intensive use of fossil fuels such as peat, wood, coal, steam, and petrochemicals--set temperatures rising again.Individual people paid the price. To find out more we look at the origins of the “triangular trade” of wind-borne commerce between Africa, the Americas, and Europe. We then turn to some pretty famous names from the history of Western Art Music, to discover the impact of the lucrative profits of this commerce, in particular the trafficking of enslaved people from Africa, had on their careers.Hearing the names of Handel, Mozart, and Haydn in association with the murderous trade in enslaved people may come as a shock, so we take some time to understand music-makers and consumers as actors in music history, unpacking connections between high art and the global economy of the early Anthropocene. Or to put it more bluntly, between “then and them,” and “now and us.”Our next stop is early nineteenth-century Jamaica. We take a look (and a listen) to that island's fraught colonial history, by “entering” Abraham James's painting, “A Grand Jamaica Ball,” moving from its two dimensions to an imaginary sonic three. Pictures don't make noise, it's true, but if you take time with them, they can reveal a lot about the human experience of sound. We'll be doing this frequently in the podcast: looking across times and places for unexpected sonic clues about how people lived their lives. Especially in the pre-electrical era paintings, sculpture, prose, and other objects are key materials in our sonic-historic workshop. Key PointsGlobal history took a new turn around 1500 with the beginning of Western colonial expansion and the rise of a new global economy based on resource extraction and long-distance trade. This new turn had a direct and measurable impact on Earth's environment: many historians now place the beginning of the Anthropocene (the era of human-made climate change) around 1600.One fundamental impact of Western expansion and empire included the large-scale eradication of Indigenous people through disease and violence. Another was the enslavement of Africans and their transport to the Americas, a process marked by unspeakable mass violence. Both catastrophes changed global soundworlds in many ways.Historical honesty compels us to recognize that heroes of Western Art Music such as Haydn, Handel and Mozart were all connected to the new global economy. None of them could have had the careers they did without money from patrons whose money came from trade in resources like sugar, which in turn depended on enslavement and the exploitation of human suffering.ResourcesGary Tomlinson's ground-breaking work on the deep history of music includes A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity.Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin's exploration of the long history of human impacts on climate, which includes their take on the “Orbis spike”: The Human Planet: How We Created the AnthropoceneDavid Hunter's discussion of evidence of Handel's investments in the slave economy, on Will Robin's Sound Expertise PodcastFor cutting-edge musicological work on sound, music history, and the Anthropocene, check out @prof_ajchung on TwitterAll of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. Join the conversation!

Every collaboration has a backstory. Ours goes back nearly 30 years, when Chris (the older one, jazz musician, former line-cook and nightclub bouncer, some tattoos) and Tom (the slightly younger one, classical musician, serial migrant, no tattoos) worked together at WFIU, Indiana University Public Radio. Both of us were in grad school at Indiana at the time, Chris in jazz and musicology and Tom in music performance. In radio those were the old days. We worked with reel-to-reel tape and rudimentary hard-wired networks on the studio computers, pulling shifts late nights and early mornings for a listening audience scattered through the southern Indiana hills. And then we went our separate ways: Chris to start his academic career in Texas, Tom to Germany to work as a musician before returning to the US for a PhD in musicology at Cornell. Fast forward fifteen years: we are both in academia, two American scholars on divergent paths. Chris is at Texas Tech building a Vernacular Music Center and much else besides. Tom has landed in Southampton in the UK, beginning to move from pretty old-fashioned art music (ask him about Mozart and he'll tell you a lot of things you didn't know people even knew) to global music history. Fast forward another ten years to the summer of 2018. Chris has just finished the second of two books about American vernaculars, and Tom is wrapping up a book about European experiences of Chinese music around 1800 and starting a new project about jazz and AI. Over the years we'd seen each other at conferences in strange airless hotels. You could count on us (the big guy with the tattoos and the bookish Mozart scholar living as a migrant in Britain) to regale anyone who would listen with stories about small-town radio in the good old days, where you knew your audience because some of them would call you on the control room phone just to talk, and the reel-to-reel machines sometimes did terrible things to you on air.And, curiously enough, we realize that our paths are beginning to align: Chris is working on “history from below,” in music and dance soundscapes across the Americas, and Tom is working in material and social history using soundscapes of global imperial encounter and modern technology.Chris has an idea. Why don't we two surprise people (because despite our shared history, from the outside we seem an unlikely duo in academia, where everyone is trapped in narrow specialties) and do a thing. We're both all-in on global history and empire, on music and what it means in the world. We feel like we need to say something in times of environmental and political crisis. So...an essay collection? Maybe a symposium? You could feel our enthusiasm waning even as one of us suggested these. As energizing as it can be to spend time in a room full of really cool colleagues, neither of us wanted the thing to be that. Instead, after decades in academia, both of us were looking for something more immediate, the kind of experience we know from the classroom and yes, from the old days on the radio. We talk it over some, and agree to meet in England next time Chris is traveling in Europe. You'll have to listen to the episode to get the rest of the story. It didn't take long for us to settle on an ambitious project: a music history book for non-academic readers. And a podcast, a medium Tom and Chris, Old Radio Guys, were just beginning to discover. A few emails later we had found our producer, Tom's sister Tatiana Irvine, and her production company, Seedpod Sound. And here we are.Key PointsHow we came to be writing a book together nearly 30 years after first working at the same public radio station in small-town Indiana (or “How a global history of imperial encounter, across five centuries, was born in the studios of a small public radio station in southern Indiana, 30 years ago”)What it's like to come up with an ambitious joint project in a business that favors lone working (or “Getting our brains, and those of our colleagues and managers, around the idea of an international collaboration across time zones and disciplines--in the midst of a global pandemic.”)What excites us about podcasting as a medium: its immediacy and the possibility of two-way communication with the audience (or “How podcasting engages and unites us through shared personal and scholarly goals: radio skills, expertise in sound as both meaning and technology, a sense of history, and an urgent desire to contribute to global efforts to fight environmental destruction”)How we want to structure the podcast around three themes: labor, energy and data (or “Why ‘labor'; why ‘energy'; why ‘data'? What are the human, ecological, cultural, and historical stories that brought us to this moment?”)Why we want to tell bold new stories about voices most music historians miss (or “The untold stories, the silenced voices, the unseen or unrecognized encounters between people, places, eras, and experience--between labor, energy, and data--for which we seek to create new spaces for encounter and understanding.”)ResourcesTom Irvine's Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 is about the shifting responses of Western travellers, musicians, philosophers, and diplomats to China and its soundscapes around 1800, and how these responses shaped their sense of what it meant to be “Western.”Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor, edited by Tom Irvine and the Southampton historian Neil Gregor, explores how Germans reacted in music to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale, and how the world responded to German music in return. The introduction and Tom's chapter on how ideas of “Germanness” shaped the British composer Hubert Parry's heavily racialized approach to music history are available for free on the Berghan Books website.Chris Smith's The Creolization of American Culture: William Sydney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy uses the artworks of painter and musician William Sidney Mount (born in Setauket, Long Island in 1807) as a lens through which to recover the earliest roots of the Black-white cultural exchange that gave birth to the street musics that were the roots of the “Creole Synthesis” of African and Anglo-Celtic sound and movement that lies at the heart of American music.Chris Smith's Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History is a study of 400 years of movement and noise--street dance and "rough music"--as tools by which minoritized peoples, across many moments in the history of the Americas, have sought to create freedom “from below.”All of the books mentioned in the episode can be found in our Sounding History Goodreads discussion group. 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Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections which have both won and been nominated for numerous awards - including her story collection Love In Infant Monkeys which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her latest novel, A Children's Bible, was a finalist for the national book award and shows children grappling with climate disaster - and their parents - in the wake of n apocalyptic storm. When not writing novels Millet works for the Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona, a nonprofit that works to protect endangered species. We talked to Lydia about climate change, the creative process, and trying to ween her son off anime.Hosted by Phillip Russell and Ben ThorpYou can follow Lydia Millet here.Visit Lydia Millet's website here.Visit our website: Originstory.showFollow us on Twitter @originstory_Do you have feedback or questions for us? Email us theoriginstorypod@gmail.comCover art and website design by Melody HirschOrigin Story original score by Ryan Hopper  

We begin this episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors with a simple question about murder which then spirals into a depressing diatribe about the end of the world. We touch upon the new documentary about 9/11 on Apple TV+ and then briefly discuss Green Lights, Matthew McConaughey's new memoir (he's not quite as stupid as you'd think). We hear from Jason's attorney about political sectarianism and segue into what it's like to talk to a Trump supporter at a party. Biebers involve produce bags and failing at discretion.

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episodeSelected References:2:12 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 17 - BI Book Club 1: The Reality Bubble from July 2021, where we discuss Ziya Tong's 2019 book The Reality Bubble4:07 - Published in 1739, book 3 of philosopher David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, “Of Morals”, articulates what has come to be known as the “is-ought problem” which arises when someone makes claims about what ought to be that are based solely on statements about what is. Hume found that there seems to be a significant difference between positive statements (about what is) and prescriptive normative statements (about what ought to be), and that it is not obvious how one can coherently move from descriptive statements to prescriptive ones. While Hume was dealing with moral philosophy, a related epistemological concept derived from Hume's thought is the fact-value distinction, in which statements of fact based upon reason and physical observation, and which are examined via the empirical method, are separate from statements of value, which encompass ethics and aesthetics. This barrier between 'fact' and 'value' implies it is impossible to derive ethical claims from factual arguments, or to defend the former using the latter. 5:44 - James Madison lays out his views on a large diverse republic in Federalist No. 10, see the Wikipedia entry as well10:33 - See the great “Cognitive bias cheat sheet” and “What Can We Do About Our Bias?” by Buster Benson writing for Better Humans12:49 - Listen to Season 2, Episode 18 of Conversations With Coleman: The Myth of Climate Apocalypse with Michael Shellenberger (YouTube), more on Coleman Hughes and Michael Shellenberger13:27 - From the Season 2, Episode 22 show notes of Conversations With Coleman (YouTube): "My second announcement today is about my interview with Michael Shellenberger from a few weeks back. It seems that Michael made some very misleading or outright false claims about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events. Specifically, he said that climate change did not contribute to the intensity of wildfires in California and Australia. It was a surprising claim to me at the time, but I didn't push back in the moment. Although in retrospect, I should have because it turns out this is not the consensus of the climate science community. Some of his other claims, including that we're not in a sixth mass extinction are at the very least far more controversial than he indicated. So to rectify this, I'm going to get a mainstream climate scientist on the show very soon, and cover all of these topics in detail."13:34 - Factfulness by Hans Rosling22:04 - In his 2018 book Stubborn Attachments economist Tyler Cowen argues that “[t]he lives of humans born decades from now might be difficult for us to imagine, or to treat as of equal worth to our own. But our own lives were once similarly distant from those taking their turn on Earth; the future, when it comes, will feel as real to those living in it as the present does to us. Economists should treat threats to future lives as just as morally reprehensible as present threats to our own.”23:11 - See “The Brain Isn't Supposed to Change This Much” (The Atlantic, 2021)25:25 - Watch “Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy” (YouTube)27:53 - See “How much plastic actually gets recycled?” (Live Science, 2020), “Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not” (New York Times, 2018),and “Is This The End of Recycling?” (The Atlantic, 2019)28:12 - See “Biden's fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat” (Vox, 2021), and “Eating meat has ‘dire' consequences for the planet, says report” (National Geographic, 2019)29:24 - In Factfulness, author Hans Rosling lays out 10 “dramatic instincts” that often lead us astray, the first three of which he refers to as “mega misconceptions.” The first of these is what he calls “The Gap Instinct” or the mega misconception that the world is divided into two, to paraphrase Rosling he says we have a tendency to “divide all kinds of things into two distinct and often conflicting groups with an imagined gap...in between...the gap instinct makes us imagine a division where there is just a smooth range, difference where there is convergence, and conflict where there is agreement...in most cases there is no clear separation of two groups...the majority is to be found in the middle, and it tells a very different story.” To combat this instinct Rosling suggests recognizing when a story is about a gap and realizing that reality is often not polarized at all, and furthermore to beware of extremes, that although the difference between extremes is dramatic, the majority is usually in the middle where the gap is supposed to be.” For more useful information on the gap instinct and the other 9 dramatic instincts, see Factfulness at Gapminder31:50 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 06 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics from November 2020, and see Difficult Conversations by by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen34:18 - See Super Duper Food Trucks Catering, the spin off of Super Duper Weenie42:28 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy44:38 - As well meaning as we might be, it goes without saying that Jeff and I are hardly the first humans to engage in this kind of exercise, in fact, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It was drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, and was it set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected, and is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels. The Declaration comprises 30 individual articles, the first of which states “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” and the 25th of which states “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” For the other 28 Articles see the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (United Nations)46:31 - Watch the benefit song “U.S.A. For Africa - We Are the World (Official Video)” (YouTube) and read the Wikipedia entry, Bob Dylan appears at 3:4646:38 - See “We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger” (Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2012) and “Can we feed the world and ensure no one goes hungry?” (United Nations, 2019)50:28 - See “Building New Renewables Is Cheaper Than Burning Fossil Fuels” (Bloomberg Green, 2021), “Majority of New Renewables Undercut Cheapest Fossil Fuel on Cost” (International Renewable Energy Agency, 2021), and “Solar power got cheap. So why aren't we using it more?” (Popular Science, 2021)52:14 - See Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, “Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago” (Scientific American, 2015) and “How the oil industry made us doubt climate change” (BBC, 2020) 53:30 - Former Vice President Al Gore released his climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 200655:22 - See “Why you think you're right, even when you're wrong” (TED Ideas, 2017)58:18 - The Progress Network1:00:24 - In his 1971 book Theory of Justice, philosopher John Rawls presents the thought experiment of the Veil of Ignorance, which allows us to test ideas for fairness when thinking about setting up a just society. For more see “The Fairness Principle: How the Veil of Ignorance Helps Test Fairness” (Farnam Street Blog) 1:00:43 - See “The Ship Breakers” (The Atlantic, 2014), “Inside the Shady, Dangerous Business of Shipbreaking” (Atlas Obscura, 2016), watch “Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything” (National Geographic YouTube Channel), and see the Wikipedia entry on ship breaking1:02:35 - Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 12 - A New Enlightenment: The Age of Cognitivism from March 2021This episode was recorded in August 2021The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti

The Gary Null Show Notes – 08.18.21 Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset Climate Change Is Already Disrupting the Military. It Will Get Worse, Officials Say GOP Quietly Scrubs Webpage Detailing Trump's ‘Historic Peace Agreement With the Taliban' Debt and Disillusionment Children's Health Defense Sues Rutgers University Over COVID Vaccine Mandate The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan ‘Loudest Alarm Bell Yet': Unprecedented Water Shortage Declaration for US West Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? Will Vaccination Become the Price of Admission to Society? COVID Vaccine Mandates Strongly Opposed in Europe, U.S. as Vaccine Failures Increase The Strategic Consequences of Western Defeat in Afghanistan Today's Videos: 1. Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down   2.  Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness – Simon Sinek   3. Covid Roundtable   4. Millions Protest Across France, Rejecting Mandatory ‘Health Pass' 

Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."

Don is resigned to being long dead before things really get apocalyptic climate-wise so he sets his sights on David's parental task of preparing Harry to live through the coming disaster. Where do they derive their inspiration? Movies. Also, FYI? “Fuckin'” is not a nice word.

The miserableness in America, the lack of accountability, empathy and critical thinking, Energy Charter Treaty, the climate apocalypse, China buying American farmland, and American scraping. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."—Aristotle The miserableness in America, the lack of accountability, empathy and critical thinking. U.S. is always reactionary rather than proactive. The general populous here in America just seems downright miserable. EVERYBODY seems to be suffering from a physical ailment, a mental health struggle, or both and everyone has a fuse about an inch long. People are bitter, angry, and antagonistic to each other. I'm seeing people ready to chop each other's heads off over the most minor inconveniences, burdens and opinions. Energy Charter Treaty - source It allows corporations to sue governments for billions if they pass climate laws that hinder the exploitation of fossil fuels, like the Netherlands got sued for 1.4B Euros for trying to pass a law phasing out coal. The treaty applies till 20 years after you leave it. Welcome to the Climate Apocalypse. (It will get worse.) - source A record-hot June; the rain-soaked July; the smoke-tinged skies and eerily orange sun — that made you wonder if this might be more than a random, rotten run of very bad news. “We are absolutely seeing the face of climate change in these extremes,” said Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. “As awful as these events are, they are helping people to realize that they're being affected by climate change today. This is not a global warming story of the gradual warming of the planet on average. This is the much more personal impact of climate change.” CHINA WILL OWN EVERYTHING China buying American farmland - source China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies. By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department. VICE: Season Two Episode 3 (2014) - source Cities like Detroit and Cleveland are at the forefront of a new phenomenon: scrapping. People left behind are literally ripping apart old schools, houses, hospitals and factories for raw materials to hawk to local scrap yards for cash. Scrap metal is one of the United States' biggest exports, with billions of dollars' worth traveling to China every year, where it's invested in their infrastructure. The price for a pound of copper, for example, is about five times more than it was in 2002. Correspondent David Choe looks at the life cycle of scrap metal, from the people who risk their lives to find it, to the yards that buy it, all the way to the Chinese traders who take it back home to build their economy and to sell back to the U.S. at a higher profit. Produced by The Wild 1 Media. Our other podcasts- https://darksidediaries.sounder.fm https://anchor.fm/ttmygh https://crypto101.sounder.fm/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today we tackle the electric vehicle (EV) sector and ask some questions about what's really going on in the sector and is the death of oil really what to expect?For example, you might think that EV sales are outpacing all others.But that's just simply not the case. In fact, there are two other kinds of vehicle that are far outselling EVs and capturing more of the car market.Why is that so? What does that mean for consumers, the oil industry and the EV industry?Also for an investor, what angle should you be looking at to play this?Of course the bigger issue seems to be the shift to net zero… or is it zero carbon… or is there confusion between the two?And what do floods in Germany, China and the UK have to do with mice plagues and ultimately a boom in the British wine industry?We cover all these questions and more in today's Exponential Investor podcast.

On Today's Episode of the Punch Out:Climate Change Catastrophe,Nevada's Brutal Executions,Swaziland Deep In Struggle.

I'm pleased to announce that supporters of the show will be able to interact with me through text messages. If you are considering joining our community, you can sign up at colemanhughes.org/ Today's guest is Michael Shellenberger. Michael is a journalist, author, environmental activist and was dubbed ‘Hero of the Environment' by Time Magazine. He's the Founder and President of Environmental Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating poverty and saving the natural environment. He's co-written and written a number of books, including An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, which is the topic of today's conversation.  We talked about the trade-off between reducing global carbon emissions and allowing third world countries to industrialize, how civilization would adjust to rising sea levels, whether climate change would lead to military conflict over scarce resources, the claim that we have to cut carbon emissions in half in the next decade, the importance of nuclear energy, cryptocurrency and its environmental consequences, are humans causing a mass extinction, is banning plastic bags a good policy, and much more. #AdBrilliant is a website and app that teaches you how to think and solve problems with fun, interactive lessons in STEM. With Brilliant's hands-on approach, you'll learn by doing instead of listening to lectures. It's a better and more fun way to learn. All of Brilliant's courses have storytelling, code-writing, interactive challenges, and problems to solve. Brilliant offers many well-curated sequences of problems that help you to master all sorts of technical subjects and achieve your goals in STEM.To check out the many courses available and find the one that's right for you, you can go to https://brilliant.org/cwc and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to this link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription#ColemanHughes #MichaelShellenberger #Environmentalist #ClimateChange #Apocalypse #Myth #CwC

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. I'm pleased to announce that supporters of the show will be able to interact with me through text messages. If you are considering joining our community, you can sign up at colemanhughes.org/ Today's guest is Michael Shellenberger. Michael is a journalist, author, environmental activist and was dubbed ‘Hero of the Environment' by Time Magazine. He's the Founder and President of Environmental Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating poverty and saving the natural environment. He's co-written and written a number of books, including An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, which is the topic of today's conversation. We talked about the trade-off between reducing global carbon emissions and allowing third world countries to industrialize, how civilization would adjust to rising sea levels, whether climate change would lead to military conflict over scarce resources, the claim that we have to cut carbon emissions in half in the next decade, the importance of nuclear energy, cryptocurrency and its environmental consequences, are humans causing a mass extinction, is banning plastic bags a good policy, and much more. #Ad Brilliant is a website and app that teaches you how to think and solve problems with fun, interactive lessons in STEM. With Brilliant's hands-on approach, you'll learn by doing instead of listening to lectures. It's a better and more fun way to learn. All of Brilliant's courses have storytelling, code-writing, interactive challenges, and problems to solve. Brilliant offers many well-curated sequences of problems that help you to master all sorts of technical subjects and achieve your goals in STEM. To check out the many courses available and find the one that's right for you, you can go to brilliant.org/CWCand sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to this link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription #ColemanHughes #MichaelShellenberger #Environmentalist #ClimateChange #Apocalypse #Myth #CwC

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In Episode 187 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Steven Koonin, author of “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” Dr. Koonin serves as Director of NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress. He previously served as Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy under Barack Obama and as Chief Scientist at BP, where he was a strong advocate for research into renewable energies and alternative fuel sources. The science of climate change has become, like almost everything else, a matter of political identity in 21st century America. A recent Pew Research study found that Democrats are more than three times as likely as Republicans to say that dealing with climate change should be a top priority. And yet, if you ask people independent of party affiliation for their views on climate change and why they believe what they believe, most of them will struggle to give you a coherent answer. In fact, very few people, and this goes for politicians, journalists, and even academics, have actually read the reports put out by organizations like the IPCC and others responsible for doing the actual research that we all cite when we talk about “the science.” And to be honest, can you blame them? Afterall, why would anyone want to spend a minute of their time learning about exactly why we are so screwed? About how we’ve destroyed the planet and “broken the climate?”  We’ve read all the headlines. “Climate Catastrophe.” “Climate Disaster.” “The earth is burning!” But how true is this, exactly? Are we really facing a “Climate Apocalypse?” Is climate science really “more reliable than physics,” something that journalist David Wallace-Wells said in a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Podcast. Not according to my guest, but more importantly, not according to the science, which, to borrow from the book’s title, is very much “Unsettled.” Before you react to that very provocative book title, you should know that no one is saying climate change is a hoax or that anthropogenic warming isn’t real. The purpose of this conversation is not to surreptitiously undermine the consensus view or to troll those who believe strongly in it. Rather, it is simply meant to help inform those of you who either haven’t read the reports or are simply skeptical about just how bad the situation is and what’s required from us in order to solve it. This is a subject that deeply concerns all of us, but the doom and gloom narrative surrounding it has arguably become counterproductive in helping us actually address the problem. Steven and Demetri spend two hours—between the first half and the overtime—working their way through the data, what it says, and what the models predict about not only future warming, but also the incidences of droughts, forest fires, hurricanes, rising sea levels, climate-induced migration, and pandemics driven by a warming planet.  In the subscriber overtime, they focus most of their attention on the incentives that account for these widely divergent narratives on climate, the importance of morals and values in thinking about how to structure climate policy, and the missing components of costs and tradeoffs that we all need to think about when coming to decisions on how best to adapt our societies and ourselves to the changing climate. Kofinas and Koonin also discuss geoengineering, including carbon extraction and the use of aerosols to dampen the sun’s rays, as well as alternative sources of energy like wind, solar, and nuclear, and their respective roles as alternatives to fossil fuels in the coming decades. You can access the episode overtime, as well as the transcript and rundown to this week’s episode through the Hidden Forces Patreon Page. All subscribers gain access to our overtime feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today’s episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to our mailing list through the Hidden Forces Website Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://patreon.com/hiddenforces Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 04/12/2021

To access this week's postgame, on Michael Parenti with comedian Mike Recine, support the show by subscribing at patreon.com/leftreckoning.Historian Peter Linebaugh joins Matt to discuss his newest book, "Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard."

About the acquired understanding thanks to the videos with the participation of Igor Mikhailovich Danilov and the books by Anastasia Novykh. Insights after watching the video "CLIMATE APOCALYPSE: ILLUSION OR REALITY?" A new level of climate disasters in 2020. Synchronization of natural disasters around the world. The force of nature. What is the real value in your life? The meaning of human existence and humanity. How does consciousness work? Examples of the work of consciousness. How to change the attitude to life? How to change yourself? Why should people unite? How to build a creative society? Illusions of consciousness. The video "CLIMATE APOCALYPSE: ILLUSION OR REALITY? " https://youtu.be/Xiyxe0GYkUc Videos with Igor Mikhailovich Danilov: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-gwQUB4VIPlpCa4pvsjSqeQZ1N6hLzBB Books by Anastasia Novykh: https://allatra.tv/en/knigi-anastasii-novykh More here: https://allatra.tv/en E-Mail for communication: info@allatra.tv

The drastic climate changes on the planet have reached a new level! What danger does this bring for humanity and for each of us? Forecasts by scientists and the military. What do people in power actually prepare for, and under what illusions does an ordinary person live? Acceleration of climatic processes, their cascading nature and synchronization in 2020. Why has the globe begun to increase in volume, and what are the consequences of that? A short video illustrating the dynamics of natural disasters over the ten years from 2011 to 2020. What does everyone need to know and do in order to survive? The importance of global awareness-raising and unification. What will unification give us? How can we peacefully transition from a consumerist to a creative format of society? How to overcome the crisis of egoism of civilization? The supranational idea that unites all people and the foundations it is based on. People can change everything and survive! The most valuable thing is human life because it allows a person to gain something greater. #Disasters #Climate #ALLATRA

The drastic climate changes on the planet have reached a new level! What danger does this bring for humanity and for each of us? Forecasts by scientists and the military. What do people in power actually prepare for, and under what illusions does an ordinary person live? Acceleration of climatic processes, their cascading nature and synchronization in 2020. Why has the globe begun to increase in volume, and what are the consequences of that? A short video illustrating the dynamics of natural disasters over the ten years from 2011 to 2020. What does everyone need to know and do in order to survive? The importance of global awareness-raising and unification. What will unification give us? How can we peacefully transition from a consumerist to a creative format of society? How to overcome the crisis of egoism of civilization? The supranational idea that unites all people and the foundations it is based on. People can change everything and survive! The most valuable thing is human life because it allows a person to gain something greater. #Disasters #Climate #ALLATRA

Guests: Brandy Bones - Vice President of Disaster Management, ICF Dr. Peter Schultz - Vice President of Climate and Resilience, ICF If you've been in California in the last few months, or anywhere else in the United States really, it is becoming almost impossible to deny the impacts of climate change. For the second time in two years wildfires in the Western US have threatened millions of acres, evacuated whole regions and caused air quality so bad San Francisco could have been mistaken for Mars for almost an entire week. The World Meteorological Organization has run out of hurricane names for 2020, and it's only September. Flooding is debilitating many parts of the southeast even some areas that aren't designated flood plains. In September Death Valley had a recorded temperature of 130 which is possible the hottest anywhere on earth in modern times. For many people experiencing these disasters it is no longer an isolated, once-in-a-generation event, but a frequent reality that threatens the short and long-term viability of their region as a place to live. The economic toll of these events continues to grow astronomically, not to mention the human costs of lost life and having to uproot whole communities with nowhere to go. This reality check takes place during a pandemic that has cost many people their health and livelihoods and decimated our economy with no end in sight. Not to mention a federal administration that still discredits climate change as a reality, let alone our most important global priority. Trump recently came to a still on-fire California to meet with the Governor and told gathered officials that “science doesn't really know” what's happening with climate change. It's unbelievable. As usual the populations most impacted by this lack of action are the poor, communities of color and other marginalized groups who usually contribute the least to the problem. A silver lining of this catastrophe is that what was once considered an abstract theory that only scientists understood or cared about is something is now extremely tangible, and this provides a moment for dramatic action especially when we consider the potential economic opportunities that would come with a green revolution to fight climate change. It is also a time to reexamine the systems we use to dispense relief so that communities are able to handle the immense resources necessary for fundamental change and allow for truly equitably driven solutions. To paint a picture for what this new world could look like, and how we might get there I invited two guests whose whole world is understanding the impact of climate change and how we can create resilient communities. Brandy is our first repeat guest, and this time she discusses her expertise on disaster recovery and the coordination between federal and local governments to rebuild and measure risk. Dr. Schultz brings decades of modeling experience as well as an understanding of how large a role economics and the private sector play in our ability to create an opportunity for change that can bring prosperity and sustainability to many communities.

In this episode, we find ourselves engulfed in some of the worst weather and air quality that we have seen in the western states. Here is what was on the front page of the LA Times reports two weekends ago in big letters - “California’s Climate Apocalypse - fires, heat, air pollution: The calamity is no longer in the future - it’s here, now.” We’ll spend all of this episode digging into the science of our recent experience but also looking for short-term and long-term educational opportunities to use this reality to help students cope and hopefully thrive in this new world.Resources mentioned in this episode:Video of the race between an induction cooker, electric cooker, and burner gas cookerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajIEjHOCsM

California wild fires are wreaking havoc on the West coast. This is causing massive damage across multiple states.

California wild fires are wreaking havoc on the West coast. This is causing massive damage across multiple states.

Stu does … the climate apocalypse! Any media coverage of climate change is going to be pushing a vision of doomsday on you, but is humanity really headed for extinction? Author Michael Shellenberger tells Stu about his new book, "Apocalypse Never," which reveals through evidence and named sources that the panic over global warming is completely overblown. Then, Jason Buttrill, head writer and researcher for "The Glenn Beck Program," swings by to discuss former national security adviser John Bolton and the motivations behind his new book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strap in because environmental justice organizer Anthony Rogers-Wright brings the heat. In his role as the policy coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance, Anthony advocates for a huge network of indigenous, urban black, and low-income communities on the front lines of climate change who all share one thing in common: they are all disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change and pollution. As Anthony makes abundantly clear, the reality that we have to face right now is that we will not be equal in our suffering when it comes to climate change. Just as we will not be equal in our suffering when it comes to coronavirus.

Flyover Politik Podcast 3-3-20-B Todays Part B of two-part show: 1- College Crazy- Trump supporter kicked off campus, UCLA kills plastic, Protesting Teacher assistants canned Bernie loses his shit 2- Gay Shit- Another video of child abuse with tranny story hour/London hosts Muslim LGTB festival/British Paper shows GLAAD is right gays overrepresented on TV/Iowa pushes parent notification and approval for Gay indoctrination sex ed in K-12/Clifford the big red dog introduces gay moms 3- Everything is Racist – One Trump photo of black leaders praying over Trump sends media into racebaiting over drive 4- African American Pastor Asks Tom Perez is there a place for him in DNC … no answer given 5- Losing their Religion- Same photo makes media lose their minds bashing Christians, talking about gendering Christ and saying Christian Persecution is all lies 6- AOC invokes faith to intersectionality the F out of stuff 7- Climate Apocalypse we are losing our beaches millimeters at a time … OH THE CALAMITY 8- TIk Tok promoting abortion videos 9- This is America - kids show on Freeform pushes for pegging we are seriously garbage now Next Show 3-8-20

By now, we’ve all seen the pictures and footage of Australia-on-fire. In many ways it’s equivalent to those Rover pictures of Mars. They make us sit up and take notice, but we have no real feel for what it’s like and how life can survive, or even if it can. For that we can only appreciate firsthand accounts of what may very well be the first great climate apocalypse of the 21st century. Some of you may have read Judith Crispin’s harrowing account of the fires in a recent story in WhoWhatWhy. Now amidst the fire and devastation, it is an honor to talk with Judith Crispin My WhoWhatWhy conversation with Judith Crispin: 

A very emotional conversation about Australia’s devastating wildfires with somebody who is living the nightmare.

In each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one:The 1965 essay by Joan Didion entitled "Los Angeles Notebook," first published in Slouching Towards BethlehemProtest led by union workers and tribal leaders against Trump’s support of fracking in Pennsylvania (link)"On Breaking Up," an essay of Leora's published in Speculative Nonfiction (link)Robin Wall Kimmerer and Terry Tempest Williams' 2019 event at the Harvard Divinity School (link) Rachel Zucker's book Mothers (link) (We quote her quote about quoting.)Blackfishing the IUD, the book by Caren Beilin and podcast from Wolfman Books (link) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (We reference her discussion of the red light of emotion vs the white light of truth.)Ellie's Instagram post about breakups (link) Ellie's forthcoming film (link)Sarah Ahmed's book Living a Feminist Life (link)About Us: Ellie Lobovits is a visual artist, educator, writer, and teacher of Jewish plant magic. ellielobovits.comLeora Fridman is a writer and educator, author of My Fault, Make an Effort, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. leorafridman.com

Cheers to Episode 145, Part 2: “Getting to Know the Climate Apocalypse 101: An Introduction” with guest Rev. *Jessica Abell (GreenFaith & Spirituality Collective).  The world is changing and ecological devastation is all around us. Grief, anger, despair, and denial are all active. How can we weave hope, change, chaos, and community together into this fabric? Join us for a real conversation about living with creation, complicity, and compassion. If you are a fan of this episode and/or other Brew Theology shows, give this episode a share on the interwebs, rate Brew Theology on iTunes and give BT a brewtastic review! Head over to the Brew Theology website, www.brewtheology.org to learn more, and/or become a local partner, sponsor and financial contributor. Questions & inquiries about Brew Theology, the alliance/network, Denver community or podcast, contact Ryan Miller: ryan@brewtheology.org &/ or janel@brewtheology.org. /// Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@brewtheology) & Twitter (@brew_theology) Brew Theology swag HERE. T-shirts, tanks, hoodies, V-neck's, women's, etc. all in multiple colors /// *From childhood, Jessica was deeply involved in her Episcopal congregation, diocese, and regional bodies. Beginning in her early 20s, she worked as a youth minister in a variety of capacities; both as a volunteer and a paid staff person in suburban and urban, small and large, high and low church congregations. She has trained and mentored other youth ministers lead multiple peer groups. After a time of leadership at the Episcopal Cathedral & Diocese of Chicago, Jessica went to seminary at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California as a postulant for Holy Orders in The Episcopal Church. After graduation, and a hospital chaplain residency, she became an American Baptist. Rev. Abell has discovered a renewed commitment to the Gospel of Jesus that required a new flexibility not possible in the church of her youth. Currently Jessica is part of the Spirituality Collective, works for GreenFaith Colorado as the organizer of the faith-based voice in issues of climate change, and runs a small congregation in Denver, Living Waters Community Church. She also has a Master's Degree in City & Regional Planning to be able to know HOW to work for a more humane and sustainable world.

Get ready for the 144th episode of the Brew Theology podcast “Getting to Know the Climate Apocalypse 101: An Introduction” with guest Rev. *Jessica Abell (GreenFaith & Spirituality Collective).The world is changing and ecological devastation is all around us. Grief, anger, despair, and denial are all active. How can we weave hope, change, chaos, and community together into this fabric? Join us for a real conversation about living with creation, complicity, and compassion. If you are a fan of this episode and/or other Brew Theology shows, give this episode a share on the interwebs, rate Brew Theology on iTunes and give BT a brewtastic review! Head over to the Brew Theology website, www.brewtheology.org to learn more, and/or become a local partner, sponsor and financial contributor. Questions & inquiries about Brew Theology, the alliance/network, Denver community or podcast, contact Ryan Miller: ryan@brewtheology.org &/ or janel@brewtheology.org. /// Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@brewtheology) & Twitter (@brew_theology) Brew Theology swag HERE. T-shirts, tanks, hoodies, V-neck's, women's, etc. all in multiple colors /// *From childhood, Jessica was deeply involved in her Episcopal congregation, diocese, and regional bodies. Beginning in her early 20s, she worked as a youth minister in a variety of capacities; both as a volunteer and a paid staff person in suburban and urban, small and large, high and low church congregations. She has trained and mentored other youth ministers lead multiple peer groups.After a time of leadership at the Episcopal Cathedral & Diocese of Chicago, Jessica went to seminary at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California as a postulant for Holy Orders in The Episcopal Church. After graduation, and a hospital chaplain residency, she became an American Baptist. Rev. Abell has discovered a renewed commitment to the Gospel of Jesus that required a new flexibility not possible in the church of her youth.Currently Jessica is part of the Spirituality Collective, works for GreenFaith Colorado as the organizer of the faith-based voice in issues of climate change, and runs a small congregation in Denver, Living Waters Community Church. She also has a Master's Degree in City & Regional Planning to be able to know HOW to work for a more humane and sustainable world.  

Most leftist political views of the climate crisis lean toward natural solutions like reforestation and regenerative ag. But if we’re serious about taking action at the necessary scale before it’s too late, Dr. Holly Jean Buck argues that we have to consider ALL available solutions, including carbon capture technology and geoengineering. She comes at the issue from the Critical Left, advocating for the thoughtful use of industrial tech to reverse climate change.   Dr. Buck is a postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair and Restoration. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Dr. Buck joins Ross to discuss how her take on climate solutions differs from traditional left-leaning views, explaining the aspects of geoengineering that should be in the hands of the people and the risks associated with Nori’s premise of treating carbon as a commodity.   Dr. Buck weighs in on why people are skeptical of industrial solutions to climate change and why she believes state involvement is key in removing carbon at scale. Listen in for insight into the pros and cons of policy solutions to climate change and learn why the Critical Left needs to take carbon capture technology seriously.   Key Takeaways   [3:12] What inspired Dr. Buck to write After Geoengineering Present choices for removing large amounts of carbon Seat at table re: how we use tech should be deployed   [4:46] What aspects of geoengineering should be in the hands of the people Physical ownership of assets, infrastructure (including land) Financial flows Algorithms/information used to make decisions   [8:18] The risks around treating carbon as a commodity Must consider who’s producing and who’s buying Danger of minimizing other things that matter   [10:57] How Dr. Buck thinks about the buyer’s side of a carbon market Private jet for pleasure vs. wind turbine industry State involvement to allocate determine quotas   [15:26] Why people aren’t talking about radical solutions Uncanny fear of tampering with nature via nuclear power Little research on effects of solar radiation management   [19:20] Why Dr. Buck is skeptical of fossil fuel companies leading drawdown Use environmental organizations for incentives Support shareholders over environmental protection Need plan for phasing out fossil fuels worldwide   [28:08] Why people are suspicious of industrial climate solutions Allows industries that harmed people to continue Gives control of resources to unknown big actors  Fear of unintended consequences of technology   [37:54] The pros and cons policy solutions to climate change Makes VC investment in carbon removal tech possible Difficult to pass or change (market approach nimble)   [40:46] How Dr. Buck thinks about the mission of Nori See as platform vs. market, bring buyers + sellers together Would rather see government solution but Nori not threat   [45:16] A Critical Left take on Nori Opposed to treating carbon as commodity Pro open-source logic   [49:12] Dr. Buck’s insight around reasonable criticisms of her work Too optimistic to believe in responsible solar geoengineering research Discussing strategies like solar geoengineering legitimizes tactic Carbon removal enables business as usual (same old offsets) No cause for optimism that radical social reorganization possible   [51:34] Why the Critical Left should take industrial solutions seriously Moral obligation to use available tech to reduce harm Involves geological sequestration + clean energy Scale requires government to play central role in progress Closing window of opportunity to shape tech as evolves   Connect with Ross   Nori Nori on Facebook  Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom   Resources   VERGE 19 After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration by Holly Jean Buck Reversapalooza Dr. Buck’s Article in Jacobin  Water Markets on RCC EP096 Ted Nordhaus on RCC EP098  ‘The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse’ by Ted Nordhaus 45Q Legislation Green New Deal Jeremy Corbyn The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed for in the 21st Century by Harald Welzer Sunrise Movement Extinction Rebellion Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas The Fable of the Bees Books by Adam Greenfield Granular Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl David Harvey Books by David Graeber

Panel discussion with Prof. Rupert Read, Roger Hallam and Marc Lopatin. Chaired by Anita McNaught at Byline Festival (Pippingford Park, England) August, 2019..

In a zero-sum game between human prosperity and saving the planet, the planet will lose every time, our guest believes. But what if we can have our cake and eat it too? What if we can grow the economy AND deal with climate change at the same time?   Ted Nordhaus is the Founder and Executive Director of The Breakthrough Institute, the world’s first ecomodernist think tank promoting technological solutions to environmental problems. He is also the author of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Ted joins Ross and Christophe to discuss the fundamentals of ecomodernism, explaining the movement’s idea of decoupling and offering his response to the degrowther argument against it.   Ted also shares the ecomodernist take on industrial agriculture and addresses the reasons why nuclear energy has failed to gain traction. Listen in to understand what’s wrong with apocalyptic environmentalism and find out how we can move the needle on climate change without threatening the end of days.   Key Takeaways   [1:30] The fundamentals of ecomodernism More dependent we are on nature, more damage we do to it For cities, nuclear energy and intensive agriculture   [5:03] The ecomodernist idea of decoupling Grow economy + deal with climate change at same time Economic development will always win over saving planet   [8:59] Ted’s response to the degrowthers Population growth result of advances in public health and nutrition Lower resource throughput associated with each $ of economic output   [13:46] The ecomodernist take on industrial agriculture People historically leave farms to seek better life  Tied to declining fertility rates, women’s empowerment   [18:58] Ted’s insight on apocalyptic environmentalism Rises from generation of unprecedented security and affluence Romantic agrarian view disconnected from real work of farming   [25:18] The policies with the most climate benefits Clean energy investment in solar + wind Coal-to-gas transition   [28:29] How to move the needle without threatening apocalypse Make clean energy so cheap it competes for own sake Modest economic and political lift (i.e.: pricing, regulations)   [32:53] Why nuclear energy has failed to gain traction Combined failure of policy, institutions and tech State-owned plants vs. private actors   [40:44] Ted’s take on the smartest people who disagree with him Bill McKibben David Wallace-Wells   [44:54] Ted’s response to George Monbiot’s critique of ecomodernism Small farms in poor countries have marginally higher yield Women and children used as free labor   [48:51] How the Right might respond to apocalyptic climate action Idea of Avocado Politics (be careful what you wish for) Concentration camps, walls and resource wars   [51:45] Ted’s vision of a population that adapts well to 4° warming Open borders, integrated institutions and trade   Connect with Ross & Christophe    Nori Nori on Facebook  Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom   Resources   The Breakthrough Institute TBI on Twitter Ted Nordhaus on Twitter Alex Trembath on Twitter Zeke Hausfather on Twitter TBI on Instagram Breakthrough Dialogues Podcast Books by Ted Nordhaus An Ecomodernist Manifesto Wendell Berry Ramez Naam ‘The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse’ by Ted Nordhaus Bill McKibben The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells ‘Meet the Ecomodernists: Ignorant of History and Paradoxically Old-Fashioned’ by George Monbiot Ted’s Response to George Monbiot’s Critique Bill McKibben on RCC EP094 Nils Gilman

Today’s guest is Ted Nordhaus, Founder & Executive Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ted Nordhaus is a leading global thinker on energy, environment, climate, human development, and politics. He is the founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and a co-author of An Ecomodernist Manifesto. Over the last decade, he has helped lead a paradigm shift in climate, energy, and environmental policy. He was among the first to emphasize the imperative to "make clean energy cheap" in The Harvard Law and Policy Review, explained why efforts to establish legally binding international limits on greenhouse gas emissions would fail in The Washington Post and Democracy Journal, made the case for nuclear energy as a critical global warming solution in The Wall Street Journal, has written on the limits to energy efficiency and the need to prepare for climate change in The New York Times, and has argued for the importance of intensifying agricultural production in order to spare land for forests and biodiversity in Scientific American and The Guardian. His 2007 book Break Through, co-authored with Michael Shellenberger, was called "prescient" by Time and "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" by Wired. (An excerpt in The New Republic can be read here.) Their 2004 essay, "The Death of Environmentalism," was featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times, sparked a national debate, and inspired a generation of young environmentalists. Over the years, Nordhaus been profiled in The New York Times, Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, the National Review, The New Republic, and on NPR. In 2007, he received the Green Book Award and Time magazine's 2008 "Heroes of the Environment" award. Nordhaus is executive editor of the Breakthrough Journal, which The New Republic called "among the most complete efforts to provide a fresh answer" to the question of how to modernize liberal thought, and the National Review called "The most promising effort at self-criticism by our liberal cousins in a long time." In today’s episode, we cover: Ted’s background and history, and what led him to care about climate change Ted’s views on the problems with the environmental movement, which led him to founding BTI BTI mission, vision, work Ted’s views on the nature of climate change, and the misconceptions people have about the best ways to solve. Ted’s views on the best path forwards, and where innovation, policy, and government fit in. Ted’s views on how to think about the 2020 election and the stakes. Different views here than most other guests! Links to topics discussed in this episode: The Breakthrough Institute: https://thebreakthrough.org/ Neoliberalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Green New Deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse article: https://issues.org/the-empty-radicalism-of-the-climate-apocalypse/ Shale gas revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_gas Advanced nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_nuclear Carbon capture and storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage Nuclear Regulatory Commission: https://www.nrc.gov/ Net Power: https://www.netpower.com/ 45Q tax credit: https://www.betterenergy.org/blog/primer-section-45q-tax-credit-for-carbon-capture-projects/ Nuclear energy leadership act: https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/3/murkowski-booker-and-13-colleagues-reintroduce You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests. Enjoy the show!

The death of Eddie Money. Both of the Alpha Apes celebrated wedding anniversaries this week. a $65 cocktail Himmel bought for his wife plus Hall's disdain for Hamilton. Also, on a lighter note, why not just concede that we've lost the climate change war and start preparing for the inevitable apocalypse?Plus six tasks for you to accomplish in order to be allowed into the house and make soap from human fat.

Tom and Don talk to Alex AKA lessens ( @anti_minotaur on Twitter) about left approaches to climate policy and the danger of catastrophic thinking. Partially a reply to an earlier episode with Mike, Alex argues that climate change is a big problem that will require big solutions but not some strategy of degrowth/simplification. Apology: Alex's mic cut out very briefly here and there, and we did our best to clean it up.   Mentioned: "The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse" by Ted Nordhaus: https://issues.org/the-empty-radicalism-of-the-climate-apocalypse/ Intro music from auntie004. Outro music: Norma Tanega - A Street that Rhymes at 6 AM.

Thaddeus Russell has always loved nature, and he is a fan of clean air and water. But he hates composting toilets, and he’s sick of environmentalists telling him what he should and should not do. In fact, he’s got an issue with the whole idea of sacrificing pleasure and freedom for the sake of the planet. Is there a way to address climate change without bringing morality into it? Can we reduce emissions without all the guilt and personal shaming?    Thaddeus is the creator of Renegade University, the host of the Unregistered Podcast, and the author of A Renegade History of the United States. He argues that American society has been defined not by the elites and intellectuals, but by the rebels who challenged conventions, expanded the realm of desire, and created our personal freedoms. Thaddeus is a former history and philosophy professor with a PhD from Columbia University, and his work has appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and New York Magazine, among many other publications.   Today, Thaddeus joins Ross, Christophe and Paul to explain why he takes issue with the environmental movement. He challenges the moralist approach to political problems, describing how environmentalists leverage guilt and shame individual choices—while ignoring big emitters like the US military. Thaddeus also offers an overview of the Progressive Era, discussing the historical efforts to eliminate cultural diversity in the US and sharing his take on the parallels between progressives and environmentalists. Listen in for insight on what Thad sees as the anti-immigrant roots of the top environmental organizations and learn why Thaddeus believes in Nori’s hypothesis around leveraging greed to solve climate change.   Key Takeaways   [2:22] Thaddeus’ path to reversing climate change  Grew up with radical socialist parents, loved nature + backpacking Introduced to ecological movement in college (anarcho-communist) Problem with deep ecology’s antagonism toward human beings   [10:25] The problem with a moralist approach to political problems Anti-intellectual and anti-science, no need to study issue Requires change in people’s character in order to solve   [13:23] An overview of the Progressive Era (1880’s to 1920’s) Formed by intellectuals in response to ‘immigration problem’ Opened settlement houses as assimilation factories Based on Puritan ideals (e.g.: selflessness, aversion to pleasure)   [22:04] The historical efforts to annihilate black and gay culture in the US Project of Reconstruction to eliminate slave culture (music, dance) Gay, black leaders promote assimilation to achieve equal rights   [26:26] Thaddeus’ take on how rulers think Small group wants to manage people, give control to experts Primary problem to control citizens + merge identity with society Censor and punish pleasure-seeking (e.g.: rock-and-roll music)   [35:06] The progressive concept of social engineering Conflict between rulers and people around bodies, desires Assimilation + integration essential for order, efficiency + control   [44:25] The central role of guilt in the environmental movement Moralize against greed, tell people what should/shouldn’t want Rich person’s project (Americans have resources, time for guilt) Evangelical Christian idea of living simply to be close to God   [48:02] The argument for centralized control to solve climate change Reduce emissions with massive social engineering Comparison to World War II (65M people died)   [51:52] Thaddeus’ view of climate change as a ‘phantom menace’ Useful to have abstract problem that can’t be seen Greed in all of us = unseen enemy to eradicate   [58:00] The idea that oil & gas and big ag will solve climate change Technology and deregulation revolutionized mass media Leverage greed to fix problem, make life better + cheaper   [1:05:25] Why sustainability and open borders cannot coexist Environmental organizations historically anti-immigration Finite number of people any one locality can sustain   [1:12:25] Changing systems vs. the character of people Criminal justice solved by shift in law (e.g.: legalize drugs) Environmentalism concerned with personal shaming   [1:17:44] How the military and big ag contribute to emissions US military one of top polluters, land use change = 20% Individual actions alone not enough to reduce CO2   Connect with Ross & Christophe   Nori Nori on Facebook  Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Nori on GitHub Nori Newsletter Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes Carbon Removal Newsroom   Resources   Thaddeus’ Website Renegade University Unregistered Podcast Unregistered Underground A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell Sierra Club Slavoj Zizek Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom Edward Abbey Hull House The Man in the High Castle Freedmen’s Bureau Martin Luther King, Jr. Index of Sermon Topics Andrew Sullivan Larry Kramer The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Books by James C. Scott Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Cotton Mather ‘The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse’ by Ted Nordhaus Dr. James E. Hansen Pol Pot Bill McKibben Naomi Klein ‘How Much Land Does a Man Need?’ by Leo Tolstoy Rupert Murdoch FCC Fairness Doctrine David Brower Kuznets Curve Environmental Defense Fund