Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and America’s Fault Lines (Episode 28 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
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 that include the undermining of government, extreme individualism, race...
Nobody takes the renewable energy transition seriously
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Despite all the demands from climate activists, scientists, and even policy makers, hardly a single country is taking the shift to renewable energy seriously. Even countries and...
Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction (Episode 27 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In this episode Asher, Rob, and Jason wonder if individualism (not to mention all those other “-isms”... capitalism, socialism, communism) is simply the product of a relatively short period of expansionism, and what of our values must be kept...
Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot (Episode 26 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
In search of better ideas and better leadership, Asher, Rob, and Jason discuss how we can reinvent lifeboat ethics and find prosocial ways to manage humanity’s shared crises.
Koala Butts Ablaze and the Sweet Relief of the Adaptive Cycle (Episode 25 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Join Asher, Rob, and Jason as they give a guided tour of the growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization phases of the cycle, and hash out how it can be applied to the modern world.
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Asher, Rob, and Jason grapple with the cacophony, hash out the good and bad of the film and the response to it, and argue for an honest, messy-middle approach to the transition away from fossil fuels.
Review: Planet of the Humans
A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans (directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs), in which she began by admitting that she hadn’t seen the film yet. When writers...
Let’s Stop Pretending Billionaires Are In the Same Boat As Us During This Pandemic
In this pandemic, we are unfortunately not in the same boat. Most Americans don’t even have a canoe. But some billionaires have taken to the high seas in their yachts – literally – to ride out the pandemic. While ordinary workers...
U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surges as Covid-19 Pandemic Worsens
As the pandemic-fueled U.S. unemployment rate approaches 15 percent, America’s billionaire class is experiencing a wealth surge, according to a new Institute for Policy Studies report that I co-authored with Omar Ocampo and Sophia Paslaski, Billionaire Bonanza 2020. Between March...
Fraying Food System May Be Our Next Crisis
If you’re already overwhelmed with news of the pandemic and are coping with depression, read no further. However, if you’re a crisis responder by inclination or profession, you might start thinking food. Experts who study what makes societies sustainable...