Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. I’ve got two tasty speeches for you: why the billionaires are taking over, and what we can do about it. A quick note on this week’s program. More than half of Radio Ecoshock listeners are American. Although we do …
Should the very rich control our climate? Our food? In the Radio Ecoshock for last week, I may suprised listeners with a very different point of view. Former Whole Earther Stewart Brand came out swinging for nuclear power, genetic engineering, and geoengineering as …
This week on Radio Ecoshock – the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The “Recovery” was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough – the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. …
Today, more cars are sold in China than in the United States. Chinese companies, many state-owned, are traveling the world to buy up oil to power them. We are already going to extremes to keep our own fossil economies going – blowing the …
You know we are going to run out of civilization’s life-blood: fossil fuels. And if we burn what’s left, the climate will tip into a mass extinction event. Meanwhile, barking madness seems to be the only growth industry. Is it time for more …
Collapse is the new in thing. Columnists in collapsing newspapers write about it. Historians tell us it’s coming. Prominent economists predict it. We all expect it. What is collapse? Definitions vary from uncontrollable downturns, all the way to great culls in our population. …
Is global warming unstoppable now? Could we be saved by total economic collapse? If so, should we help civilization fall? It’s another cheery edition of Radio Ecoshock, with your darkness at the end of the tunnel, Alex Smith. There are lots of links …
Are you trying harder and harder to get things done? Stop it. Stop right now, and enjoy your life. You might live longer, and help save the planet as well. That’s the message from Cecile Andrews, author of “Slow Is Beautiful”. Her book …
Coming up on Radio Ecoshock – hot from Copenhagen, American energy – and the destruction of Africa. Two continents adrift in hard choices. We know climate change is upon us. It’s just a matter of how fast, and how bad. The struggle stretches …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. This week’s program is about schizophrenia: the state of hoping the system will crash before it kills the planet, while counting on all the usual creature comforts of home, jobs, and a well-stocked supermarket. Yes, I know the Western …
Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan to reduce our use of Earth’s resources, or plunge through a series of disasters. Full keynote speech from “Resilient Cities” 091021 plus Q and A with Warren …
Everything in the techno-capitalist society forms us into separate atoms. We demand our own space, travel in personal metal boxes, and struggle as individuals. When disaster strikes, hardly anyone remembers how to respond. How will your community react to a major threat? Will …