Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster
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 technology ...
29 Kesä 202259min
Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community
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 them into...
22 Kesä 20221h 13min
Chillin' and Killin': How Air Conditioning Has Altered Human Behavior and the Environment
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 story of ...
15 Kesä 20221h 7min
Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising
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? These ...
8 Kesä 202257min
Highway to Hell: How Road Infrastructure Traps Us in an Unsustainable Nightmare
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 stands, th...
1 Kesä 20221h 3min
Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species
What kind of thinking leads to the unleashing of exotic species on unsuspecting ecosystems? Hint: it's certainly not systems thinking or critical thinking – in fact, thinking may not be involved at al...
25 Touko 202252min
The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity
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 all fa...
18 Touko 202253min
It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us
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 international expos...
11 Touko 202245min
