Podcasts by Crazy Town
With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves.
Further podcasts by Post Carbon Institute: Sustainability, Climate, Collapse, and Dark Humor
Podcast on the topic Geowissenschaften
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Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile from 2023-11-15T02:00
Investigative journalist Leah Sottile writes articles teeming with insights, and she produces and hosts podcasts filled with ah-ha moments. Rob tries not to sound like too much of a fanboy as he...
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Bonus Riff: Infinite, Unlimited, Forever - Water in the Desert from 2023-10-19T02:00
Just how much has the extractivist growth mindset come to dominate Phoenix and other cities in the desert Southwest of the United States? Prepare to turn your indignation meter up to 11 a...
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Bonus: Going Wild with Rae Wynn-Grant from 2023-09-20T02:00
Wildlife ecologist and communicator extraordinaire Rae Wynn-Grant visits Crazy Town to talk human-wildlife interactions, the social side of environmentalism, diversity and equity in the sciences...
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Bonus: Bagdhad Bob Visits Climate Town from 2023-08-30T02:00
What do Saddam Hussein’s information minister and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board have in common? Hint: it starts with a “d,” ends with “enial,” and isn’t just a river in Egyp...
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Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling from 2023-08-09T02:00
After hearing a story of woe on the streets of Portland, Oregon, Jason, Rob, and Asher cover the four critical ways of cultivating personal resilience to navigate the Great Unraveling. The repor...
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The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up) from 2023-06-21T02:00
Asher, Rob, and Jason explore the lessons and dangers of the brotherhood of Phalse Prophets and consider better ways to achieve a sustainable and equitable society. Along the way, they examine h...
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The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk from 2023-06-14T02:00
Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his way to the pinnacle of Muskitude. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs from 2023-06-07T02:00
Meet Steve Bannon, the Molotov mixologist who wants to light the world on fire. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction from 2023-05-31T02:00
Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who undermines legitimate climate concerns by predicting we’re all going to die yesterday. Please share this episode with your friends and start a c...
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Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites'Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation from 2023-05-24T02:00
Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit artist who helps capitalists survive the apocalypse with beans, bullets, and bravado. Please share this episode with your friends and start a con...
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How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of from 2023-05-17T02:00
Meet William MacAskill, the puerile professor who helps crypto capitalists justify sociopathy today for a universe of transhuman colonization tomorrow. Please share this episode with your friend...
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Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies from 2023-05-10T02:00
Meet Mark Jacobson and David Keith, the leading techno-fixologists who overpromise overhyped “solutions” to the climate conundrum. Please share this episode with your friends and start a convers...
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How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex. from 2023-05-03T02:00
Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this ...
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Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in"Saving the World" from 2023-04-26T02:00
Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who attempts to remake the world's operating system in his own image. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.<...
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Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist from 2023-04-19T02:00
Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class from 2023-04-12T02:00
Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO from 2023-04-05T02:00
Meet Jack Welch, celebrated wrecker of real jobs and leading light of Wall Street wankers. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity from 2023-03-29T02:00
Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual from 2023-03-22T02:00
Meet Steven Pinker whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
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What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet? from 2023-03-15T00:00
Meet the unelected leaders of Crazy Town, who keep our collective heads in the sand while the planet burns. Please share this episode to your friends and start a conversation.
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Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen from 2023-02-22T02:00
Stuart McMillen is a systems thinker disguised as a cartoonist. His long-form comics condense important academic topics into understandable and entertaining works of art. Stuart tackles topics i...
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Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen from 2023-01-11T02:00
Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. With a title like that, Jason and Bob have lot...
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Bonus: Human Rights and Multispecies Justice with Danielle Celermajer from 2022-12-14T02:00
Asher is joined in Crazy Town by Danielle Celermajer, author and professor at University of Sydney, for a far-ranging conversation about human rights and the more-than-human world. Dany shares h...
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Bonus: A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus from 2022-11-09T02:00
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus returns to Crazy Town, but this time with a green badge of courage. Earlier this year, he locked himself to the entrance of the JP Morgan Chase buildi...
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Bonus: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff from 2022-11-02T02:00
Douglas Rushkoff revisits Crazy Town, where he and Asher discuss why so many billionaires, academic institutions, and "serious" people are drawn to longtermism - the view that our top ...
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Bonus: Angry Birds and Hairbrained Humans with Mary Roach from 2022-10-12T02:00
In her latest book "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law," Mary Roach approaches the topic of human-wildlife conflict with entertaining stories, scientific insight, and a healthy dose of w...
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Announcement: Power Podcast with Richard Heinberg from 2022-09-22T02:00
Please check out our newest podcast, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival featuring Richard Heinberg. How have humans become powerfu...
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Bonus: Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby from 2022-09-14T02:00
Taylor Brorby has written one hell of a memoir. It covers many critical topics that come up in Crazy Town, from fracking to civil disobedience to that most inept of policies: aiming for infinite...
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Bonus: The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky from 2022-08-10T02:00
As a follow-up to Episode 61 of the Crazy Town podcast, Noam Chomsky, the well-known linguist, author, and social critic, joins Ash...
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Skyrocketing Population and Carbon Dioxide: Watershed Moments Wrap-up from 2022-07-06T02:00
The astute listener will recognize the trends in population and greenhouse gas emissions over the course of our chronologically arranged episodes on watershed moments in history. Describing thes...
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Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster from 2022-06-29T02:00
Talk about cascading consequences: when a few nerds wanted to get high and orchestrated a small exchange of cannabis, they kicked off the age of ecommerce. Now that online shopping and the techn...
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Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community from 2022-06-22T02:00
Free trade, private property, and limited government – these policies might seem well-intentioned and even benign. But when a couple of colluding, power-tripping, wealthy blockheads packaged the...
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Chillin'and Killin': How Air Conditioning Has Altered Human Behavior and the Environment from 2022-06-15T02:00
For such tame technology, air conditioning really packs a punch when it comes to enabling environmental obscenities, indefensible infrastructure, and shortsighted settlement patterns. In the sto...
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Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising from 2022-06-08T02:00
Are shameless product placements keeping you from enjoying your movie-viewing experience? Have you ever felt assaulted by pop-up ads and sidebars while trying to read something on the internet? ...
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Highway to Hell: How Road Infrastructure Traps Us in an Unsustainable Nightmare from 2022-06-01T02:00
Don't you wish we could power daily life on road rage, frustration, and righteous indignation? If that were possible, the U.S. highway system would be the best investment of all time. As it...
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The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity from 2022-05-18T02:00
Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost ...
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It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us from 2022-05-11T02:00
Back in the day, the World's Fair was a global showcase of innovation and a peerless cultural event where visitors envisioned a neon future filled with technological wonders. These internat...
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Colonizing the Sky: The Untold Environmental Toll of Skyscrapers from 2022-05-04T02:00
Skyscrapers have sprouted like mushrooms in our urban landscapes. But in an environmentally depleted, energy-pinched era, we need to take a closer look at the downsides of movin' on up to t...
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The Bright Side Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: How Positive Thinking Undermines Sustainability from 2022-04-27T02:00
Welcome to the seductive, but regrettable world of unquestioned positive thinking, where faith healers, BS slingers, pseudoscientists, and get-rich-quick schemers all peddle the same basic messa...
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Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons from 2022-04-20T02:00
The “tragedy of the commons” is an idea that has so thoroughly seeped into culture and law that it seems normal for people and corporations to own land, water, and even whole ecosystems. But the...
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Bonus: The Legal Legacy of Colonization with Sherri Mitchell from 2022-04-13T02:00
Indigenous rights lawyer, leader, and author Sherri Mitchell describes how the Christian Doctrines of Discovery made their way from 15th-century European religious leaders into the U.S. legal sy...
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A Load of Papal Bull: Greenlighting Colonization and the Mindset of Extraction from 2022-04-06T02:00
In 1493 the most corrupt (and orgy-throwing) pope of all time gave the nod of approval for wealth-seeking Europeans to trample the rest of the world. As seafaring colonizers divvied up the world...
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Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy from 2022-03-30T02:00
When greedy power-trippers perpetrate unspeakable acts of exploitation, they often rationalize their loathsome acts after the fact. Such is the case with the Atlantic slave trade. European kidna...
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Bonus: Patriarchy and the Cultural Roots of the Climate Crisis with Amy Westervelt from 2022-03-23T02:00
Investigative journalist and podcaster Amy Westervelt talks with Asher about the cultural roots of the climate crisis. Their wide-ranging conversation covers many stop-and-make-you-think ideas a...
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A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Overexploitation of Animals and Nature from 2022-03-16T02:00
Michael Jackson had a private zoo with elephants, lions, tigers, orangutans, and more. Michael Vick bankrolled and organized a dog fighting ring. But you don’t have to be named “Michael” to have...
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The Taming of the Slough: Humanity's History of Trying to Control Water from 2022-03-09T02:00
People have a long history of trying to control water, like when the Roman emperor Plumpus Crackus built the Cloaca Maxima (only one of those names is made up) to transfer sewage into the Tiber ...
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Hidden Drivers Wrap-up, or... the Story of the Throbbing Amygdala from 2021-06-23T02:00
It's the end of the world as we know it. OK, maybe not just yet, but it is the end of Crazy Town's third season. If you've been able to look past some of the more absurd parts of ...
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Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach from 2021-06-16T02:00
The "maximum power principle" may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organiz...
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Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or... the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath from 2021-06-09T02:00
Did you ever think a baseball melee could effectively explain nuanced topics like cybernetics and systems dynamics? This episode examines the fascinating world of positive feedback loops, which ...
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Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman from 2021-06-02T02:00
All of humanity's feats, whether a record-setting deadlift by the world's strongest man or the construction of a gleaming city by a technologically advanced economy, originate from a s...
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Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or... the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things from 2021-05-26T02:00
Imagine a factory assembly line running at full steam, but instead of spitting out car parts or plastic trinkets, the conveyor belt is loaded down with Jeff Bezos wannabes. That's a disconc...
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Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or... the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar from 2021-05-19T02:00
Way back when money consisted of iron pieces, if you wanted to buy a horse or some spices to season your horse meat, you practically had to carry an olympic weightlifting set with you. Early ban...
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The Attention Economy and Nature Depletion, or… the Story of Einstein Watching Cat Videos from 2021-05-12T02:00
There's an insidious feature of modern life: as the economy and technology continue to grow, attention becomes ever more scarce. Nowadays footage from Russian dash cams and the latest "...
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Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or... the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion from 2021-05-05T02:00
Velcro pants and legs. Booster rockets and spacecraft. Humans and nature. What do these three pairs have in common? They're all things that are detached from one another. That's right,...
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The Myth of Progress and Limits to Growth, or... the Story of the World's Largest Shovel from 2021-04-28T02:00
Who in their right mind is against the idea of progress? You'd be hard-pressed to find a candidate for public office with a platform of maintaining the status quo or regressing to days of y...
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Complexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp Microphone from 2021-04-21T02:00
Society has become so complex that all the complexity begets more complexity. And if that’s not complex enough for you, jobs have become so specialized that hardly anyone knows how anything is m...
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Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or... the Story of the Duelling Economists from 2021-04-14T02:00
An argument between economists is usually as exciting as reading the phone book (what's that?), especially about something as boring-sounding as the discount rate. But it's an argument...
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Conspiracy Theories and Collapse, or… the Story of UFOs and Free Energy from 2021-04-07T02:00
First things first, we try not to confuse ourselves or our listeners as we distinguish between conspiracy theories and actual conspiracies. Then we unpack a bunch of questions about why people (...
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Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom from 2021-03-24T02:00
What can we learn about death from the X-Men, small screaming rodents, and unwitting college students in psychology experiments? It turns out that the fear of death (or death anxiety) affects hu...
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Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or... the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers from 2021-03-17T02:00
How can the climate disaster and humanity’s overall sustainability crisis be explained by 80s sitcom characters, birdbrained hats from the late 1800s, and a dubious new use for scratch-and-sniff...
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Cognitive Bias and Global Warming, or... the Story of Cattle Prods and Ice Cream Shops from 2021-03-10T02:00
If only we were as rational as we think we are! It turns out that we’re all subject to cognitive biases, those errors in thinking that influence how we process the complex information we encount...
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Bonus: The Practical Stoic with Richard Heinberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Simon Drew is the host of The Practical Stoic, an outstanding podcast that explores philosophy and the human predicament. In this episode, Simon invites Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at the Post ...
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Bonus: Decolonizing the Mind with Sherri Mitchell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Asher Miller interviews Sherri Mitchell on the opportunity to decolonize our minds, hearts, and all of society.
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Announcement: Luciferian Mailbag Call from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We want to hear your Crazy Town stories and questions. Please send email to crazytown@postcarbon.org, and if your message strikes the right chord (kinda like the voicemail we dissect in this announ...
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Season 2 Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Get ready for a second season of Crazy Town where Asher, Rob, and Jason drill some fracking wells, chop down the forest, and maximize their profits (either that, or wax sarcastically on the state o...
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Crazy Town Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we're all deluding ourselves.
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Tis but a Scratch: the Insanity of Getting the Economy"Back to Normal" from 2020-06-17T21:00
You know you're in for a bumpy ride when societal institutions start behaving like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In one of the most famous comedic movie sc...
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A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege and Systemic Racism from 2020-06-10T21:00
We had planned to record and release our season finale this week, but felt compelled to address the unfolding battle over police violence and systemic racism in our country which has come to a b...
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Mailbag: Dark Humor and Sustainability from Listeners around the World from 2020-05-27T21:00
Heathens, kooks, and fertilizer for corn and bean fields: these are a few of the names applied to your humble hosts here in Crazy Town. We set ourselves up for abuse in this special mailbag epis...
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Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and Fault Lines in American Politics from 2020-05-20T21:00
Besides lessons in ethics (and in Asher's case, lessons in the English language), the Brady Bunch offers up a metaphor about the fault lines in American politics -- fault lines tha...
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Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction as We Encounter the Limits to Growth from 2020-05-13T21:00
Before you heap praise on someone's cooking, even for something as delicious as porcupine pot pie, you might want to consider the effects of ego inflation and the downsides of a hyper-indiv...
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Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot from 2020-05-10T21:00
As we continue heading toward planetary disaster, like the Titanic steaming toward its rendezvous with a big freakin' iceberg, we might want to figure out how to prepare and manage...
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Koala Butts Ablaze: Growth, Conservation, and Collapse in the Adaptive Cycle from 2020-05-06T21:00
In the disorienting days of corona quarantine, wouldn't it be dope to have a model that can help you make sense of the world? Enter the adaptive cycle from the field of systems ecology -- a...
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Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Stokes Controversy over Renewable Energy from 2020-04-29T21:00
Paying attention to the buzz around Planet of the Humans, the new film by Michael Moore, is like standing in the middle of a three-ring circus. In ring #1 are the filmmakers, who raise ...
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Mayor McCheese&Modern Medicine: Squandering Energy and Rethinking Technology from 2020-04-22T21:00
Some anthropologists argue that we're living in an anomalous historical period called High Energy Modernity, which will end sooner than we might like because of declining 'net energy.&...
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An Ecofascist and a Social Justice Warrior Walk into a Bar: Extremist Politics and Censorship from 2020-04-19T21:00
We've seen a frightening rise in recent years of violence and violent rhetoric by so-called ecofascists, who use environmental and resource limits arguments to justify hateful views around ...
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Foreclosing on the Frackers: Coronavirus and the Future of Energy from 2020-04-15T21:00
In the last episode Asher, Rob, and Jason discussed the danger of political denial and delusion limiting how well we respond to the climate crisis. This week we address the risk that another &qu...
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Delusion to the Left, Denial to the Right, and the Environmental Reality Caught in the Middle from 2020-04-08T21:00
How much of a stretch is it to compare autoimmune disease to the politics of climate change? Let's just say your hosts at Crazy Town were able to do it without any need for medical interven...
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I Can't Drive 35: the Politics of Rationing and its Potential to Shift the Economy from 2020-04-05T21:00
If you ask a hundred people what they want to do about climate change or other crises in the age of overshoot, approximately zero of them will enthusiastically call for rationing. But is rationi...
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Coronavirus and the Three Bears: the Right-Sized Crisis for a Transition to Sustainability? from 2020-04-01T21:00
First of all, f*ck this virus. We don't want anyone to experience pain and suffering from coronavirus, but maybe there's a lesson to learn. In fact, even a simple story like Goldil...
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Our Naked Emperors Catch Coronavirus: How to Think about Collapse with Nafeez Ahmed from 2020-03-29T21:00
Asher goes for a deep dive in his interview with investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed about how the novel coronavirus is rippling through the systems that make up modern society. To set the sta...
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Announcement: Keeping up with Coronavirus from 2020-03-27T18:00
Asher explains the changes to Crazy Town's schedule as we try to keep up with new developments during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Announcement: Keeping up with Coronavirus from 2020-03-27T18:00
Asher explains the changes to Crazy Town's schedule as we try to keep up with new developments during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The 10,000-Mile Cod, Insane Global Trade, and the Path to a Resilient Local Economy from 2020-03-25T21:00
What do Scottish cod, rubber duckies, rock phosphate, and shipping containers have in common? They all ride the oceans in really big boats as part of the insanity of today’s global trade. Trade ...
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The Long and Shart of Extreme Travel as Climate Chaos Reigns from 2020-03-18T21:00
Coronavirus has put the kibosh on frivolous travel for the moment, but we might want to do some reflecting before returning to business as usual. Prior to the outbreak, you were constantly told ...
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The Adventures of Bill and Lou: the Obscene Politics of Climate Change and Overshoot from 2020-03-11T21:00
It’s easy to picture a group of social justice and environmental activists gathering in a circle. But these days, instead of holding hands and singing songs, they’re loading weapons and taking a...
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Band-Aid Town and the Psychology of Climate Change from 2019-05-29T21:00
Pop quiz! A friend of yours has just had an unfortunate chainsaw accident and cut a femoral artery: do you (a) make a tourniquet with your t-shirt, or (b) stick a Band-Aid on the wound? If you p...
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Helicopters and Kick the Can: Money in the Real World of Energy and the Environment from 2019-05-22T21:00
Have you ever wondered how dolphins feel about quantitative easing? OK, probably not, but it is important to consider the effects that money and monetary policy have on the real world o...
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My Dinner Is Stuck in Traffic: Fossil Fuels and the Food Transition from 2019-05-15T21:00
You know what drives Jason really crazy about auto traffic? No, it’s not the 42 hours per year that the average commuter wastes stuck in it or even the global warming pollution spewed, it’s the ...
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Tackling Inequality in the Economy, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time from 2019-05-08T21:00
Chuck Collins joins Asher, Rob, and Jason in Crazy Town to describe his startling journey from undercover trust fund kid to tireless campaigner for economic equality. Together they examine why R...
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They'll Think of Somethingisms: Is Technology Really the Answer to Overshoot? from 2019-05-01T21:00
The threats of overshoot and climate chaos loom larger by the day, but it’s all going to work out just fine. At least that’s what you hear from starry-eyed techno-optimists, hemp enthusiasts, an...
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Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn: When Climate Scientists and Economists Go off the Rails from 2019-04-24T21:00
Did you know that we can lose half our food supply and it won’t matter? That’s because agriculture is only 3% of GDP, so there’s no need to worry about the effects of climate change on ...
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Deer Sinew and Beetle Biscuits: Raising Kids in the Age of Climate Chaos from 2019-04-17T21:00
What do we want our children to do in the waning days of the fossil fuel frenzy and the early days of climate chaos? Being a good parent is hard enough under the best of circumstances, but it’s ...
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Zombies, Magic Rocks, Collapse, and Other Fun Sustainability Stories from 2019-04-10T21:00
Apocalypse is upon us, at least in movies, television shows, books, and even podcasts. Teen characters in youth literature are more likely to solve their differences by bow-hunting one another r...
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Solar Freakin'Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability from 2019-04-03T21:00
We’re GOING to make the transition to renewable sources of energy. There is no scenario outside the dark mind of Dick Cheney where we continue to use depleting and polluting fossil fuels over th...
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My Car Is Bigger than Yours: Consumerist Dreams and Environmental Nightmares from 2019-03-27T21:00
If you jam on the brakes for just a minute and take a look at cars and car culture, you just might find something stinky (maybe even as stinky as the black plume of diesel exhaust emanating from...
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1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels from 2019-03-20T21:00
What would we do without energy? The short answer is, “Nothing, absolutely nothing.” And sadly, most people know next to nothing about energy and its fundamental role in society and lif...
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Punching Ronnie in the Mouth: Limits to Growth and Economic Lies from 2019-03-13T21:00
In his 2nd inaugural address, Ronald Reagan said, "There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams." First impression: that's a...
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Orangutans and Santa Suits: Who's Crazy When It Comes to Climate Change? from 2019-03-13T20:00
Can you imagine putting on a Santa Claus suit, not to pull a fast one on the kids and deliver Christmas presents, but to protest Big Oil and climate change in front of your local gas station? Th...
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