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On this show, we feature a conversation with author Stan Cox on his latest book, Anthropause, The Beauty of Degrowth. We also feature commentary on the Degrowth Movement from scholars such as Joan Martinez Alier, Jason Hickel, and Richard Wolff.
When discussing the movement toward Degrowth, we place it into the context of an ecologic reckoning for an ailing planet. Our U.S. war machine and fossil fuel economy led by Israeli-government-influenced politicians are looking to invade Iran with boots on the ground after the bombing campaigns to get the oil and gas flowing again. This is a suicidal campaign led by entimes Christian and Zionist nihilists who pretend this violence-into-quagmire scenario might have some sort of rosy post-apocalyptic outcome.
Yet there is another way that we cannot lose sight of what Henry David Thoreau understood well living under the trees around Walden Pond: voluntary simplicity brings freedom. Frederick Nietzsche once wrote: "Blessed be a modest poverty!” Consider the disasters wrought on us by a sort of dualism that separates humans and nature, man and woman, white and non-white, normal and abnormal.
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How do we go from here-wars for oil and supremacy, climate collapse, massive strife between us and them- to there: retrofitting our cities and suburbs for ecological health and human welfare? Stan Cox, author and retired Ecosphere Studies Fellow from The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, helps us envision the way.
For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio
Resources/Articles:
The Nation: https://thenation.com/article/society/noise-pollution-mental-health
thenation.com/article/environment/degrowth-fossil-fuels-consumption
Tom Dispatch: https://tomdispatch.com/were-racing-down-the-highway-to-a-mad-max-world/
Stan Cox is the author of seven books, including Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World, Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, and most recently, Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth, available from Seven Stories Press [https://sevenstories.com/books/4795-anthropause].
Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes for a PBS SoCal Artbound project called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs. He also publishes articles and podcasts on Substack [https://jackeidt.substack.com/].
Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/
Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/
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Executive Producer and Host: Jack Eidt
Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats
Episode 282
Photo credit: Stan Cox
When discussing the movement toward Degrowth, we place it into the context of an ecologic reckoning for an ailing planet. Our U.S. war machine and fossil fuel economy led by Israeli-government-influenced politicians are looking to invade Iran with boots on the ground after the bombing campaigns to get the oil and gas flowing again. This is a suicidal campaign led by entimes Christian and Zionist nihilists who pretend this violence-into-quagmire scenario might have some sort of rosy post-apocalyptic outcome.
Yet there is another way that we cannot lose sight of what Henry David Thoreau understood well living under the trees around Walden Pond: voluntary simplicity brings freedom. Frederick Nietzsche once wrote: "Blessed be a modest poverty!” Consider the disasters wrought on us by a sort of dualism that separates humans and nature, man and woman, white and non-white, normal and abnormal.
Support the Podcast via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url
How do we go from here-wars for oil and supremacy, climate collapse, massive strife between us and them- to there: retrofitting our cities and suburbs for ecological health and human welfare? Stan Cox, author and retired Ecosphere Studies Fellow from The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, helps us envision the way.
For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio
Resources/Articles:
The Nation: https://thenation.com/article/society/noise-pollution-mental-health
thenation.com/article/environment/degrowth-fossil-fuels-consumption
Tom Dispatch: https://tomdispatch.com/were-racing-down-the-highway-to-a-mad-max-world/
Stan Cox is the author of seven books, including Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World, Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing, and most recently, Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth, available from Seven Stories Press [https://sevenstories.com/books/4795-anthropause].
Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes for a PBS SoCal Artbound project called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs. He also publishes articles and podcasts on Substack [https://jackeidt.substack.com/].
Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/
Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/
Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio
PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url
Executive Producer and Host: Jack Eidt
Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats
Episode 282
Photo credit: Stan Cox