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Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
This is a two-part episode. Part 2 will come out next week.
Samuel Miller McDonald (@sjmmcd) and yungneocon (@yungneocon) come on the show to critique several articles on degrowth
Be sure to check out Samuel's upcoming book: https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1317087909254733828
Articles we discuss in this episode (not just in this part):
Additional resources:
Robin Hahnel article that attempts and fails to debunk degrowth (PDF)
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
Saturday Oct 17, 2020
This is a two-part episode. Part 2 will come out next week.
Samuel Miller McDonald (@sjmmcd) and yungneocon (@yungneocon) come on the show to critique several articles on degrowth
Be sure to check out Samuel's upcoming book: https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1317087909254733828
Articles we discuss in this episode (not just in this part):
Additional resources:
Robin Hahnel article that attempts and fails to debunk degrowth (PDF)
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Saturday Aug 31, 2019
Kris and Ryan mine a surprisingly rich topic for its nutrients
Main source: Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. Gregory T. Cushman
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
We are joined by everyone's favorite tweet thread boi, @yungneocon, to talk about whether Soviet-style central planning is any more or less capable of addressing ecological crises than capitalism. We also discuss our favorite leftist policy guy, Matty B.
Thread on forced settlement: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1120483025593282561
Thread on energy & ecology: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1094707171361767424
Big buncha free books: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1118335036246364161
Sources mentioned by yungneocon:
Against the Grain - James C. Scott (Ryan also highly recommends this one)
Farm to Factory - Robert C. Allen
A New Welfare Theory - Albert & Hahnel
The Mirage of an Economics of Knowledge - Philip Mirowski
What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism - Magdoff & Foster
The Origins of Fossil Capital - Malm
Protocol - Alexander Galloway
Soviet Faiths & Lost Alternatives
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak
The Entrepreneurial State
Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
Magnetic Mountain
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
We are joined by Soy boi of the deep (@halfasstroknot) and Trew (@trewbot) to talk about deep sea mining, Gargantia of the Verdurous Planet, and Blue Submarine No. 6
We tried a new recording technology today to get multi-track remote recording and my audio sounds worse than usual and drops out at some points, but you should be able to fill stuff in.
Outro is 青の覚醒 from the Blue Submarine No. 6 soundtrack
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Out here in Kumamoto, smokin' big doinks in Kumamoto.
The anime Reed mentioned is Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday Mar 13, 2019
Out here in Kumamoto, smokin' big doinks in Kumamoto.
The anime Reed mentioned is Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Kris and Ryan talk Green New Deal and Hayao Miyazaki's pro-ecology films.
I split this into two parts since it's 2 hours.
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Kris and Ryan talk Green New Deal and Hayao Miyazaki's pro-ecology films.
I split this into two parts since it's 2 hours.
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Seriously melting down over these episode numbering schemes. Anyway, this is about biotech in agriculture. Studies referenced in this episode:
Fernandez-Cornejo 2014 (PDF version)
Tuomisto, et al. 2011 (PDF version)
Mattick, et al. 2015 (PDF version on SciHub)
A literature review on the safety assessment of genetically modified plants
Environmental impacts of genetically modified plants: A review
A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops