Daily Episode 76 - Dissecting Episode 2: "Complex Society"

New research argues that not only are dramatic geoengineering ideas too costly, ungovernable, and dangerous, but also they serve as a distraction from our true need, which is to reduce emissions. Scie...

23 Sep 202517min

How much news is too much news? A recent article from The Guardian explores the rapidly increasing number of people who are avoiding the news for their mental health.Why more and more people are tunin...

22 Sep 202517min

A look at the overwhelming number of headlines from the last week, chronicling the erosion of constitutional rights in the USLeavitt confirms the DOJ officials have talked about banning trans...New Bi...

19 Sep 202518min

Roy Scranton, a researcher at Notre Dame, feels that "Ethical Pessimism" is the right attitude to take in regard to collapse. I think I agree... mostly? New research explores climate change and the li...

18 Sep 202519min

I received a note from a friend who said that he had no idea I was doing daily episodes, because it was under a new season and he would have had to change the season option in the drop-down of his pod...

17 Sep 20251min

More new research reveals that previously optimistic estimates for climate mitigation were... too optimistic. Feeding off of yesterday's episode, we discuss the direction that climate research is head...

17 Sep 202515min

New research indicates that previously assumed levels of potential for carbon capture storage were overestimated by 10x. Worse, the area that is currently economically viable is relatively miniscule a...

16 Sep 202519min

Newly revised jobs numbers were released and its not pretty. Almost a million jobs revised downwards. With leaders removing people who don't present the numbers they want, are we getting to a point wh...

15 Sep 202514min