Crazy Town
Science Podcasts
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. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Science Podcasts
Description:
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. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone using a gas-powered blower to move leaves from one spot to another. Rob Dietz - Jack-of-all-trades environmental scientist, conservation biologist, and ecological economist with a penchant for relating planetary overshoot to the catalog of movie scenes that play on a continuous loop in his colonized brain. Known for inserting random ecological facts into casual conversation, often in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice. His friends call him “pessimistically hilarious.” Jason Bradford - Activist farmer and former encyclopedia salesman with a PhD in plant ecology who gets genuinely excited discussing soil microbes and societal collapse in the same breath. Morally opposed to doomsday prepping, but predisposed toward sharing everything he keeps in his bunker, er root cellar, including potatoes, wine, and a 47-month supply of scientific esoterica and embarrassing anecdotes. These guys are the Three Stooges of sustainability podcasting, although they tend toward scientific analysis, righteous outrage, and self-deprecation rather than beating each other up with hand tools. How can they have this much fun while contemplating collapse and navigating the Great Unraveling? Heartfelt thanks to the team at Post Carbon Institute, our volunteers, and all our fellow Crazy Townies out there who help bring this podcast to life.
Twitter:
@postcarbon
Language:
English
Contact:
541-566-8700
Email:
crazytown@postcarbon.org
Episodes
Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning
2/11/2026
What if there were a news outlet that actually covered the most important environmental stories of our time? Dr. Emily Schoerning and her nonprofit, American Resiliency, translate the latest and most urgent climate science into useful information for communities across the United States. Jason and Emily discuss the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the merits of mitigation versus adaptation, and how to take meaningful action in your own community. Originally recorded on 12/22/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
American ResiliencyMark RoberSixth National Climate Assessment
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn, or What Climate Scientists Are Getting WrongFear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of DoomDiscounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling EconomistsFeedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or… the Story of the Baseball BloodbathThe Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon MuskThe House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home
Duration:00:55:21
Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction
1/28/2026
Jason and Asher replace Rob with a much more humane and humble co-host, Elon Musk, to explore the feasibility of harnessing the entire sun to power AI superintelligence. We come away perplexed that not much of the excellent reporting on the environmental, energy, and financial risks of the AI boom address the googleplex-sized elephant in the room – that both AI success and failure lead to immiseration. Originally recorded on 12/3/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Colossus 1Colossus 2Episode 77Crazy TownElon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding“Is there an A.I. Bubble? And What if It Pops?What If AI Is a Bubble?The Atlantic
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon MuskEscaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film HistoryEven AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant
Duration:00:34:09
EVs on Speed: The Jevons Paradox Strikes Again
1/14/2026
Mainstream economists and environmentalists share something in common. Both tend to tout efficiency -- think better light bulbs -- as the solution to climate change and all our other environmental problems. But the little-understood Jevons Paradox intervenes to overwhelm any progress that comes from improved efficiency. We skewer the efficiency gains of electric vehicles, lighting, and plenty of other sectors, and we cover ideas for avoiding the efficiency trap, including unveiling our new political platform, which is sure to take the country by storm.
Sources/Links/Notes:
EVs Have Gotten Too PowerfulWiredHeaviest Electric Vehicles of 2025Kelley Blue Bookenergy efficiency in transportThe Coal Question: An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-minesDarkness as an Endangered SpeciesEarth BridgeBillboards in the SkyWelcome to the Great Unraveling2,000 Watt Societyecological footprint
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 3Episode 19
Duration:00:43:18
Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now
12/17/2025
Picture the future 100 years from now. What do you imagine? Flying cars? Space colonies? AI talking toasters?
But if we can’t sustain an endlessly growing economy - even with a transition to green energy - what does a realistic and positive future look like?
Alex Leff of the Human Nature Odyssey podcast joins Jason, Rob, and Asher to imagine life in the 22nd century: walking from our family farms into communal villages, living off the land in a low-energy lifestyle, taming our pet donkeys, and resisting our local warlords.
It’s not the future the movies told us to expect. But it might be a future we enjoy living in.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Human Nature Odyssey
Duration:00:55:30
Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future
12/3/2025
What does a livable future look like 100 years from now? If we unlocked unlimited green energy, what would we actually do with it? And are our dreams of a renewable-energy utopia sometimes just as delusional as the old fossil-fueled, drill-baby-drill mentality?
Alex Leff of the Human Nature Odyssey podcast hosts this special Crazy Town highlights compilation. Alex revisits some of the most thought-provoking moments from Crazy Town, weaving in new commentary and context. Together, we explore energy literacy, the promises and pitfalls of a renewable-energy transition, and why toasting a simple slice of bread is much harder than you might think.
Along the way, we meet an Olympic athlete trying to toast bread with nothing but a bicycle. We also step inside a billionaire’s latest invention—a time-travel device designed to fling us one hundred years into the future.
Stay tuned for Part 2, where we take the full leap into the time machine and imagine what life a century from now could really look like in a post high-energy future.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?Galactic-Scale EnergyDo the Math, Limits to Economic GrowthNature PhysicsSolar Freakin' RoadwaysIndiegogoHuman Nature Odyssey
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 3 "1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels"
Episode 5 "Solar Freakin' Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability"
Episode 106 "Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy"
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Modified version of "Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30" by Strauss, from classicals.de — licensed under CC BY 4.0
Duration:00:37:11
Worried about the Future? Join the Club
11/19/2025
There’s the book club, the Rotary Club, the Mickey Mouse Club, and the club sandwich. Whatever your preference, you might want to think about joining a club. Social clubs, fraternal orders, and the like have had a storied and critical role in public life. That is, until government programs and technology gave us an out from having to deal with each other. But with modernity failing, will clubs and community organizations make a huge comeback? In this episode we explore club life – past, present, and future, if there is one. Originally recorded on 11/6/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunitySecret HandshakesThe Archdruid Report
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 65, "Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual"
Duration:00:51:54
Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
11/5/2025
Frog and Toad Are Friends, at least according to a venerable children’s book. And so are Jason (Crazy Town’s resident biology nerd) and conservationist brothers, Kyle and Trevor Ritland, authors of The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species. The three eco-explorers connect over wondrous habitats and critters in Costa Rica's cloud forest and swap stories that cover Lazarus species, global pandemics, self-taught naturalists, birding, and even pregnancy tests. Spliced into the nostalgia and stories are reflections on how to cope in a world where biodiversity is declining and how to regain the connections that modernity has severed between humanity and wild nature. Originally recorded on 10/9/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost SpeciesAdventure Term
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 40Episode 49
Duration:00:51:11
Unsung Heroes: Sustainability Gurus Who Influenced the Crazy Town Worldview
10/22/2025
Some key understandings in Crazy Town: the Earth is finite; the economy cannot grow forever; people can harm ecosystems and cause global warming; physics, chemistry, and biology are real; inequality hurts everyone; healthy humans need community, and it’s more fun to laugh than to cry. But where did principles like these originate? In this episode, Jason, Asher, and Rob use the format of a fantasy football draft to pick the pundits who most influenced their thinking on sustainability, resilience, community, science, economics, and politics. Like starry-eyed fanboys (but hopefully a bit more articulate) they gush over their heroes and tell behind-the-scenes stories about how they came to be influenced. And they ask listeners to share their top picks for influencers (in the best sense of the term).
Originally recorded on 9/29/25. Visit Crazy Town on the web.
Duration:00:57:05
Burned by Billionaires, with Chuck Collins
10/8/2025
Billionaires. They should be objects of scorn rather than envy. While they ride around in their super-yachts and private jets, producing the climate-damaging pollution of entire nations, they’re doing things to extract even more wealth, harm your health, diminish democracy, and rig the whole system in their favor. How did this happen? Why do we tolerate it? How can we stop the billionaires? And can we get a hold of our own super-yacht for Crazy Town pleasure cruises? Chuck Collins returns to Crazy Town to offer insights from his new book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. Originally recorded on 10/3/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and PlanetBorn on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common GoodThe Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 10Episode 43
Duration:00:44:46
Crazy Town Classics - Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach
9/24/2025
The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organize to increase power whenever constraints allow. Given the way humans adhere to this principle, especially by overexploiting fossil fuels, we often do behave like supervillains, wielding power in wildly irresponsible ways and triggering climate change, biodiversity loss, and other aspects of our sustainability predicament. Sometimes it seems like we’re using a backhoe to dig our own grave. Fortunately, once you understand efficiency and its different flavors, you can see opportunities to optimize power rather than maximize it. While considering the outlook for humanity, the Crazy Townies ponder a weird question: are we smarter than reindeer? Richard Heinberg, author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, joins the team to share his research on how people can optimize power. Originally recorded on May 6, 2021.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survivaldefinition of the maximum power principleThe maximum power principle predicts the outcomes of two-species competition experimentsStatisticspowered airplane and ship buildingsailing voyage of Greta ThunbergShort comicEpisode of the Radiolab podcastSupport the show
Duration:00:59:27
Et Tu, Bhutan? Cryptocurrency and Late-Stage Capitalism
9/10/2025
Maximize profits, exploit nature, hoard money, and, like Buzz Lightyear, grow the economy to infinity and beyond! That’s the modern economic playbook. But for decades, one renegade country has taken a contrarian stance that actually cares about people’s wellbeing and environmental health: the Himalayan nation of Bhutan. When Bhutan embraced “Gross National Happiness” and a sane notion of progress, environmentalists and social reformers rejoiced. They spotlighted Bhutan as an example of how we can build a better economy. But now it seems that no one can escape the gravity field of techno-capitalism’s black hole of cryptocurrency and bullshit investments. In today’s episode, we explore Bhutan’s dark turn and go on the hunt for other examples of nations doing things to curb overexploitation of people and the planet.
Originally recorded on 7/21/25. Visit Crazy Town on the web.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Gross National HappinessBhutan Uses Bitcoin to Boost Salaries and Curb Brain DrainThe Currency Analyticscreation of NunavutRelated episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 37Support the show
Duration:00:36:08
Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum
8/27/2025
In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate waste. How will humans in 2125 – if there are any of us left – judge the things everyone sees as normal today? Jason, Rob, and Asher take turns serving as expert curators of this future museum, nominating items that best encapsulate how foolish and environmentally ruinous our priorities are. At the end we call on you, dear listener, to share what you would include in the museum.
Originally recorded on 7/11/25. Visit Crazy Town on the web.
(Spoiler Alert) View Artifacts in the Museum:
Sportscar hoppingFurious 7Ronnie Fieg Has Mastered The Art Of CollectingHaute MagazineEcho PB-9010TSoFi Stadiuminaugural addressPool Party Playsetworld's biggest landfillRoyal Caribbean Icon of the Seasblueberry pancakes and sausage on a stickSupport the show
Duration:01:02:50
Crazy Town Classics - Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman
8/13/2025
All of humanity’s feats, whether a record-setting deadlift by the world’s strongest man or the construction of a gleaming city by a technologically advanced economy, originate from a single hidden source: positive net energy. Having surplus energy in the form of thirteen pounds of food per day enables a very big man, Hafthor Bjornsson, to lift very big objects. Similarly, having surplus energy in the form of fossil fuel enables very big societies to build and trade very big piles of stuff. Maybe Hafthor has a rock-solid plan for keeping his dinner plate well stocked, but no society seems ready to have a mature conversation about how our sprawling cities and nations will manage as net energy declines. Calling our conversation “mature” might be a stretch, but at least we’re willing to address climate change, sustainability, and the rest of the net energy conundrum head on. Alice Friedemann, author of Life after Fossil Fuels, joins the conversation. Originally recorded on April 10, 2021.
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Duration:01:26:55
Just One Word: Microplastics, with Matt Simon
7/30/2025
Put on your best polyester pants, grab a bunch of gleaming mylar balloons, and crack open a case of bottled water. In today's episode, we're entering the plastic world of plastic pollution in all its glorious plasticity. We're on the hunt for microplastics – and we won’t have to go very far, as they're present everywhere – in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in our bodies. We'll be looking for systemic solutions and talking with Matt Simon, author of the book A Poison Like No Other.
Originally recorded on 7/10/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our BodiesMicroplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them.New York TimesOcean CleanupGlobal Plastics Treaty Delayed, but Not DefeatedEarth Island JournalRelated episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 84Support the show
Duration:00:53:16
Crazy Town Classics - Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons
7/16/2025
The “tragedy of the commons” is an idea that has so thoroughly seeped into culture and law that it seems normal for people and corporations to own land, water, and even whole ecosystems. But there’s a BIG problem: the “tragedy” part of it has been debunked – it really should be the triumph of the commons. Learn the origin story of privatization and explore the true meaning of commons and how to manage them for sustainability and equity. Also check out our suggestions for championing the commons (beyond Robin Hood’s strategy of stabbing the aristocracy). Originally recorded on 2/10/22.
Sources/Links/Notes:
ownership of swansMore about the swansAct Concerning SwansA Short History of Enclosure in BritainThe Land (2009)Occupy! Historical geographies of property, protest and the commons, 1500-1850 Journal of Historical Geography Robin Hood and the Forest Laws.Livelihood, Market and State: What Does a Political Economy Predicated on the ‘Individual-in-Group-in-Place’ Actually Look Like?,SustainabilityThe Commons in a Wellbeing EconomyThe Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions AheadOn the Commonsarticles and booksElinor Ostrom’s 8 rules for managing the commonsElinor Ostrom’s Rules for RadicalsSupport the show
Duration:00:57:02
Will Trump's Tariffs Fuel or Foil the Degrowth Movement?
7/2/2025
As Trump’s tariffs kick in, the Republican party is suddenly spouting anti-consumerist rhetoric that would make the Lorax smile. Should we cheer on this accidental experiment in economic shrinkage, or will this ham-fisted set of trade policies cause a backlash against the proponents of degrowth? As political confusion reigns, we offer eco-localism as the no-regrets way to build community resilience in the face of unprecedented ineptitude that probably won’t go away anytime soon. Originally recorded on 6/16/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Abundancedamage of ‘fast fashion’Trump’s bizarre new push to make us poorer,VoxLessons From Trump’s Degrowth Experiment,Business of FashionChina’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries,New York TimesTrump's futurism: Elon's rockets and fewer dolls for "baby girl,ChartbookThe End of Fast Fashion?,The DailyTrade war vise grip: China is squeezing rare earth supply and it’s hurting,ResilienceDerek Thompson: Trump's War on Dolls,The BulwarkHow Eco-Localism Differs from Tariff Terrorism,ResilienceRelated episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 86Episode 94Support the show
Duration:00:47:52
Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy
6/18/2025
Solar panels and other modern energy technologies can be really useful, but the belief that we can technologize our way to a bigger and better society powered by clean energy is tragically flawed. Asher, Rob, and Jason dig into the up-and-down story of the Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant, review the Harry Potteresque thinking behind complex, centralized power plants, and expose the truth of the energy transition. After they finish making fun of concentrated solar/golf course/outlet mall complexes in the desert, they discuss how to make real progress on energy and sustainability. Originally recorded on 6/5/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave DesertAP NewsThis alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 yearsMore and More and More: An All-Consuming History of EnergyThe ‘Energy Transition’ is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz,Planet: CriticalDrax Power StationFacts about IvanpahEnergy Monitorreport on the opening of IvanpahThis Mojave Desert solar plant kills 6,000 birds a year. Here’s why that won’t change any time soonLos Angeles TimesAnnual carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissionsResources for conservation and local solar power:
Solar United Neighbors2,000-Watt SocietyBeing the ChangeHow to Build a Low-Tech Solar PanelResilienceCoop PowerSeeds for the Sola community solar programRelated episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 45Episode 60Support the show
Duration:00:56:39
Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis - NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?
6/4/2025
Jason, Rob, and Asher are taking out a huge, unaffordable mortgage on the housing crisis. What’s behind the shortage in housing? Why is it that no one, except canine Tik Tok influencers with billion-dollar bank accounts, can afford to own a home? While mainstream pundits press for an energy-blind buildout of desert sprawl and gleaming towers of glass and steel, we propose a surprising change of course inspired by little people with hairy feet. Originally recorded on 5/21/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
story of GuntherGunther offers to buy Nicholas Cage's islandWhere do the estimates of a 'housing shortage' come from?Americans' average daily travel distance, mappedAxiosAmerica Is on Fire, Says One Climate Writer. Should You Flee?New York TimesFastest-Growing Places in the U.S. in 2025-2026.Good Ideas for Addressing the Housing Crisis:
Growing the Shire, Not the 'Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological SanityResilienceGlobal Ecovillage NetworkAlexis Zeigler — Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid LifestyleEnergy-Blind Non-Solutions for the Housing Crisis:
Why America Should SprawlNew York TimesBuild Homes on Federal LandNew York TimesAbundance and the LeftThe Ezra Klein ShowCan Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?New York TimesEzra Klein on the Abundance Agenda (Ep. 236)Conversations with TylerRelated Episode(s) of Crazy Town:
Episode 37Support the show
Duration:00:51:46
Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World
5/21/2025
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The world has gone bunking mad. The bespoke security industry is burying bunkers stocked with arsenals of automatic rifles and surrounded by flaming moats. Is there a better way to prepare for the polycrisis, the zombie apocalypse, or whatever hard times are on the horizon? Jason, Rob, and Asher have some fun at the expense of the bunker builders before examining the positive aspects of peasanthood and stressing the need to build community.
Originally recorded on 5/5/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
"The 'Panic Industry' Boom,"New York Times MagazineThe SAFE company"'All of his guns will do nothing for him': lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday,"The Guardian"Nuggets star Nikola Jokic is again living a good life back in Serbia,"Denver SportsRelated Episodes of Crazy Town:
Episode 73.Episode 34.Episode 100.Support the show
Duration:00:42:13
It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution
5/7/2025
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Democracy and environmental protection have two things in common: (1) they’re both supposed to be enshrined in the laws of the United States and (2) they’re both under severe attack right now. Asher speaks with Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights to uncover how the source code of the U.S. Constitution and the body of environmental laws that follow it are actually designed to allow corporations to override the will of the people. After pinpointing the problem, Thomas explains what can be done, especially at the local level, to reach sustainable and just outcomes that provide wellbeing for people and ecosystems.
Originally recorded on 4/2/25.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
Thomas LinzeyCenter for Democratic and Environmental RightsThe Closed-Door Constitutional ConventionSupport the show
Duration:00:51:18