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Crazy Town

Crazy Town

著者： Post Carbon Institute
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 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.© 2025 Post Carbon Institute 博物学 地球科学 生物科学 科学 自然・生態学
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  • Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now

    Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now
    2025/12/17

    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 podcast
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    56 分
  • Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future

    Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future
    2025/12/03

    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:

    • The Toaster Challenge, Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?, 2015
    • Tom Murphy, Galactic-Scale Energy, Do the Math, 2011.
    • Tom Murphy, Limits to Economic Growth, Nature Physics, August, 2022.
    • Solar Freakin' Roadways, Indiegogo, 2014
    • Human Nature Odyssey podcast

    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
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    37 分
  • Worried about the Future? Join the Club

    Worried about the Future? Join the Club
    2025/11/19

    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:

    • Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
    • John Michael Greer, "Secret Handshakes," The Archdruid Report, January 21, 2010.

    Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:

    Episode 65, "Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual"
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    52 分
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