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.
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Follow Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com
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Post-doom: Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude


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Post-doom: Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude
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Planet: Critical is the podcast for a world in crisis. We face severe climate, energy, economic and political breakdown. Journalist Rachel Donald interviews those confronting the crisis, revealing what's really going on—and what needs to be done. www.planetcritical.com
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Humankind has outgrown the planet, so we explore ways to recover from growth addiction. We dig into the more fascinating and hard-hitting aspects of public policy and the joy of living sustainably. It’s all about ending our culture’s love affair with “more,” which is not making us happier and is killing our planet. No half-hearted greenwashing here; we share the brutal and joyful truth! Co-host Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Pa ...
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This is a podcast hosted by Joe Brewer, director of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution. Join him as he explores how to regenerate the Earth in the midst of planetary-scale overshoot and collapse. This is a show for anyone striving to find meaning and purpose in these difficult times.
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Stand-up comedian Brian Simpson talks some bullshit about whatever he wants, with whomever he wants. Email the show at BSwithBrianSimpson@gmail.com and follow Brian at @BScomedian Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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For the first time in history, the activity of human civilization reaches into every corner of the globe. So significant is the role we play that our time has been dubbed the Anthropocene Epoch. This calls for self-examination at a new level. Conversation Earth presents insightful dialog with the leading thinkers of our time. Philosophy, ethics, science, psychology and economics, at a macro level, and all focused on humankind’s relationship with the planet.
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Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environment


The podcast on plastic, people, and the planet by @anjakrieger. Plastics have become the basis for our modern lives, but they also pollute the planet. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship with these materials we’ve created? Follow Anja on a journey into the world of synthetic polymers, their impacts on nature and ourselves, and the global quest to tackle plastic pollution. Each episode explores the issue from a different angle, and features a diverse set of voices and viewpoints.
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BS with Brian Simpson


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Ep. 81: Red Flags | BS with Brian Simpson
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Presidential candidate Dave Gardner fills us in on his national project that will unify the nation behind the goal of leaving our children not a dead planet, but a bright future. In this episode, hear Dave’s full campaign launch speech (the speech intended for his September 19, 2023 live campaign launch, but cut short by technical difficulties). Fo…
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Planet: Critical


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Patriarchy and Pasture | Nikki Yoxall
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Can regenerative farming fix our food systems? One relatively effective action for an individual to combat climate change is going vegan. Industrial agriculture is razing the Amazon rainforest, facilitating endless suffering, and causing a health crisis. However, regenerative farmer Nikki Yoxall says whilst these things are all huge problems, going…
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Follow Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Folow this podcast so you don't miss upcoming episodes - some fun, some serious, all enlightening.…
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Ep. 80: Ultracrepidarian | BS with Brian Simpson
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Planet: Critical


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Leveraging Pensions to Force the Transition | Ian Edwards
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“You can't go off and get growth. That's not the foundations of a pension, especially a public pension as a public good. It is about quality curating, stewarding a future for these people. And the reason why I get jazzed about this is because the money, the scale of mone—30 to 50 trillion dollars globally—if we started to move that money for just t…
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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, and ideas for young people (don't worry if you're older—the ideas apply to you, too). Rae is the host of the PBS Nature podcast "Going Wild" and will soon…
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Ep. 79: "A slow creep towards TYRANNY" | BS with Brian Simpson
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Planet: Critical


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Creating The Alternative | Pat Kane
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“If the internet was based on a kind of commons, an almost scholarly freedom, then we need to pressure the people who are regulating the virtuality of our digital lives and say we need an early internet-like space and zone in this, where people can, for example, test out realities, test out new kinds of economy, prototype things, take those prototy…
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BS with Brian Simpson


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Ep. 78: "I'm Not Obsessed" | BS with Brian Simpson
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Planet: Critical


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Fighting for Freedom in West Papua | Jeffrey Bomanak
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“From the 1963 up until today, they can't kill our ideology. They can't kill our philosophy. They can’t kill our fight. Because we believe what we fight for. We fight for our right, freedom, dignity, and truth. So, you can come with any number, you can come with any intelligence equipment, you can come with any kind of technology, you can come. I w…
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Ep. 77: "High Tide" | BS with Brian Simpson
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Planet: Critical


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Overshooting Earth's Boundaries | Bill Rees
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Humankind’s footprint threatens to squash life under its heel. Our impact on the planet cannot be understated. We have thrust Earth into a new geological period, destroyed the majority of the world’s wildlife, razed her forests, and rendered innumerable species extinct. We are expert consumers with no limits to our appetite, it seems. Unless the cl…
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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 Egypt. A new and virulent strain of climate denial could be called “doomer shaming.” Instead of acknowledging how logical it is to be distressed about the state of the c…
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Ep. 76: "Time is LIFE" | BS with Brian Simpson
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On this week's episode: - Immortals of Aveum - Unskippable Cutscenes - Time Is Life - Starfield is incoming - Timeblindness - Late people bother Brian - A story about being late in the military - More SAG/WGA strike updates - “Nobody wants to work anymore” - F.I.R.E. - The REAL hustle culture - The Enhanced Games - BALCO documentary - "JESUS IS A P…
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Planet: Critical


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Religious Naturalism | Ursula Goodenough
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“There isn't likely to be a future where all critters have no interest in themselves and are only interested in the collective. That's not gonna work. But to temper those two directions so that there is self maintenance, but also a self that joins the community, is, I would say, the goal.” What if religion wasn’t about God—but about each other? Rel…
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BS with Brian Simpson


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Ep. 75: "Population Overshoot" | BS with Brian Simpson
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This episode is sponsored by SHEATH: Support the podcast and support your balls. Head to https://www.sheathunderwear.com and use code "BS" for 20% off your first order! On this week's episode: - We DON’T talk about the newest Trump indictment - It’s Brian’s birthday! - Samsung Galaxy Tab Ultra S9 Review - Shooting Brian’s special - Getting tickets …
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Planet: Critical


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Mainstreaming Behaviour Change | Bill Ryerson
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Human population is a problem—tackling it through education isn’t. We need to slow our global fertility rate to 1.5 children per woman if we’re to lower our population to a sustainable level of around 3 billion. That decline is already happening in many post-industrial nations, to the chagrin and panic of their leaders. However, many cultures aroun…
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Ep. 74: "Bama Boat Brawl BEATDOWN" | BS with Brian Simpson
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This week Brian weighs in on - The dockside brawl in Montgomery, Alabama - More alien whistleblower information - Living in 'MURICA - The Marine Corps Crucible (Patreon exclusive) BS with Brian Simpson now has a PATREON! Go to patreon.com/BSwithBrianSimpson to join and help us keep the pod going and get EXCLUSIVE MINISODES every week! On this week'…
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It’s so much more than “climate change”. The most biodiverse regions of the world are under threat. Beyond the models, the data, the papers and the Twitter spats, the world’s ecosystems are collapsing under the pressure of mankind’s interference, extraction and exploitation. The Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has been mined, plumb…
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Crazy Town


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Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling
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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 report we reference several times is Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown. Warning: This podcast occa…
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BS with Brian Simpson


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Ep. 73: "Non-Human Biologics" | BS with Brian Simpson
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This episode is sponsored by SHEATH: Support the show and get 20% off plus free shipping with the code "BS" at https://www.SheathUnderwear.com *** Josh is in the middle of a studio move, so the audio is a little rough this week--but we got plenty to talk about, including: - Brian is back from Just For Laughs - Why Brian always misses America - Ever…
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Planet: Critical


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Non-Violence in the face of Violence | Rose Abramoff
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“The ways in which we really value property, that to me is an extremely infinite growth capitalism, hyper-masculine and extractive and colonialist thought — this idea that property is as important as like the lives and comfort and kindness that we show people. We must show that same love and kindness and respect to property. And so in that way, I t…
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Ep. 72: "CLOUT DEMONS" | BS with Brian Simpson
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On this week's episode: - Brian reviews his new Samsung Neo OLED ultrawide gaming monitor - A janitor destroys $1M and decades of research - Skimpflation - Grumpy locals sabotage autotaxis - 87% of "classic" video games are missing - NPCs take TikTok by storm - A voicemail from Not-Tony from NZ BS with Brian Simpson now has a PATREON! Go to patreon…
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Planet: Critical


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The Eco-Fiscal Crisis | James Meadway
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“If you think about how you might get out of this and get to something better, what really matters is the distribution of resources. Who has what? Who holds the wealth? And what are they doing with it? Government borrowing and quantitative easing, this sort of thing, can change some of that, but really when you get down to it, you're going to have …
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Ep. 71: "Hollywood's Big Lie" | BS with Brian Simpson
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Support the show & get 50% off delicious Factor meals at https://factormeals.com/BS50 and use code BS50 On this week's episode: - What makes a hack - Bombing vs Killing on stage - Hollywood strike - Viewer mail BS with Brian Simpson now has a PATREON! Go to patreon.com/BSwithBrianSimpson to join and help us keep the pod going and get EXCLUSIVE MINI…
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What to do when words get in the way? We see the world through language, reality shaped by the words we use to signify concepts, systems, relationships and even knowledge. This surreal layer over the world then becomes more true to us than reality itself, shaping desire, hatred, ideology and conviction. Yet, we have evolved with language, we need i…
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82: Governor Whitmer Unveils Ponzi Population Policy
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The Michigan Governor is apparently unaware that the world, the U.S. and even Michigan are overpopulated. Michigan population has been growing a little too slowly for her taste, so Whitmer has appointed a Chief Growth Officer and formed the Growing Michigan Together Council. Not surprisingly, her bottom line is to “spur economic growth.” In an epis…
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Ep. 70: "The DEVIL is always DIGITAL" | BS with Brian Simpson
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BS with Brian Simpson now has a PATREON! Go to patreon.com/BSwithBrianSimpson to join and help us keep the pod going and get EXCLUSIVE MINISODES every week! On this week's episode: - A.I. p*rn - what can the government stop you from doing in your own home? - the writers strike - avatars in World of Warcraft - video game reviews On this week's EXCLU…
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Planet: Critical


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Debating the transition | Simon Michaux & Nafeez Ahmed
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So do we have enough materials for a renewable economy or not? A few months ago, the energy-Twittersphere exploded into debate over Simon Michaux’s report detailing how we lack enough materials and minerals for a renewable economy. I interviewed Simon, a researcher at GTK Finland, about this report, in which he laid out the lack of raw materials an…
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The global plastics treaty is in the making, and the discussions around solutions to plastic pollution are gaining traction. To give you more food for thought, Anja tries out a new format, the Plastisphere Conversations with interesting people in the field. And this is the first one, with Sarah Perreard and Julien Boucher from the Plastic Overshoot…
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Ep. 69: "The Unexamined Life" | BS with Brian Simpson
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How do we unlock the inherent creativity of people? Imagination activist, Phoebe Tickell, founded Moral Imaginations to provide an imagination-based approach to systems change. A “renegade scientist”, Phoebe has spent the past year training the London borough of Camden in imagination activism. You can read their Phase One report here as they prepar…
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Ep. 68: Black Belt-Level Stupidity | BS with Brian Simpson
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BS with Brian Simpson now has a PATREON! Go to patreon.com/BSwithBrianSimpson to join and help us keep the pod going! On this week's episode: 00:00 - Intro 01:50 - babies and hygiene 03:08 - gaming 10:05 - Rogan controversy (RFK vs. Hotez) 21:26 - online debate culture 31:56 - Titan submersible 48:17 - tech junk 01:07:51 - listener mail If you'd li…
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We need an energy transition—a feminist energy transition. For years, Cara Daggett has been researching “petromasculinity” and how this patriarchal understanding of energy impacts our relationship to it, ourselves and the fabric with which we bind society. A political scientist at Virginia Tech, Cara’s investigations into the politics of work and f…
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Ep. 67: "Rich > Famous" | BS with Brian Simpson
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*Sponsor * Sheath Support the show and get 20% off & free shipping at https://www.SheathUnderwear.com with the code BS *** On this week's episode: Trump's indictment Gerontocracy Early adopters Advice Champ Why government IT sucks Can Elon code? Polymaths don't really exist A $100M heist The so-called "Gay Agenda" If you'd like your track featu…
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