#1173 Think transgenerationally, act simply (Culture and Environment)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 3/23/2018
Today we take a look at the structures, barriers and incentives standing between us and simpler, more fulfilling, happier and more environmentally sustainable lives
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
Ch. 2: Act 1: You Can't Have Infinite Growth On A Finite Planet - Sustainable Human - Air Date 1-11-18
Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A
Ch. 4: Act 2: Pleasure, happiness and the marketing that leads us to depression - Who. What. Why. - Air Date 9-29-2017
Ch. 5: Song 2: Open Flames - Aeronaut
Ch. 7: Song 3: Molly Molly - Barstool
Ch. 8: Act 4: Minimalism: class, fetishes and the fate of the planet - @TheMinimalists - Air Date 2-14-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Homegrown - The Pine Barrens
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Story of Solutions - storyofstuffproject - Air Date 10-1-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Yarrow and Root - The Bulwark
Ch. 12: Act 6: Ari Wallach: 3 ways to plan for the very long term - @TEDTalks - Air Date 4-10-17
Voicemails
Ch. 13: Suggesting Hardcore History: Death Throes of the Republic - V from Central New York
Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
Ch. 15: Final comments on understanding the systematic nature of oppression so as to know what spandex to wear in opposing it
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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
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| 0:21.0 | Now welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:25.5 | about the structures, barriers and incentives standing between us and simpler, more fulfilling, |
| 0:32.2 | happier and more environmentally sustainable lives. |
| 0:35.6 | Our clips today come from Sustainable Human on YouTube, Radio Who What Why, a progressive |
| 0:41.9 | faith sermon, the minimalist podcast, the story of Stuff Project, and a TED Talk by Ari |
| 0:48.7 | Wallach. |
| 0:49.7 | And stick around to the very end for my final comments containing a callback to one of |
| 0:53.7 | my favorite analogies for understanding systems of power, oppression and privilege, and |
| 0:59.5 | to explain why something analogous to Spandex is your most important tool to fight these |
| 1:06.5 | systems. |
| 1:07.5 | You're not going to want to miss that. |
| 1:17.6 | The Earth is full. |
| 1:23.7 | Full of us, full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demands. |
| 1:38.3 | Our economy is now bigger than its host, our planet. |
| 1:43.8 | What this means is our economy is unsustainable. |
| 1:52.5 | When things aren't sustainable, they stop. |
| 1:55.5 | Economic growth. |
| 1:56.5 | It will stop because of the end of the tree resources. |
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