GHG Removal and the Worldviews That Consider It
Movements for climate and ecological survival have largely eschewed talk of taking CO2 out of the sky. For good reason. We don't know if it will work and it shifts the focus away from ceasing the dama...
2 Nov 20201h 57min
A model political program for ecological survival
Start by reading climate plans, then write your own. Get a zoning map, change it in Photoshop, and release it to the media. Blockade something. Establish parallel institutions. In this episode, we wil...
21 Okt 202041min
What Elephants Can Teach Us About Civil War
Elephants are changing. The various traumas of extermination—witnessing the deaths of their companions, developing in atypical social structures—are making elephants more aggressive. In this episode, ...
5 Okt 20201h 53min
Do Not Worship the Deities That Came Before the Fire
"Climate denial" has the specific connotation of outright denial such a thing exists, but what about all the other forms of denial? The human mind has a general tendency not to come to terms with over...
27 Sep 202033min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 4: Academic Gibberish vs. Life on Earth
Academic constructs, valid or otherwise, tend to diffuse into our culture at large. How has this impacted social and political conflict? Quite a lot, and mostly badly. In this episode, we look at clim...
18 Sep 20201h 50min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 3: Foucault Ruins Your Meeting
In this episode, we trace the journey of 20th century social sciences through innumerable versions of the nature vs. nurture debate, talk about how the denial of human nature led scientists to torture...
27 Aug 20201h 45min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 2: The Universal People
Because anthropology describes the observed range of human variation, as well as constants in human life, it is inextricably linked to the project of describing what is possible for a revolution to ac...
11 Aug 20201h 43min
Nature-Nurture Death Spiral pt. 1: Margaret Mead Goes to Samoa
What kind of societies are ultimately possible (i.e. within the range of variation our biology allows)? Why are social movements so prone to division and self-annihilation? These questions may seem un...
28 Jul 20201h 51min
