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🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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The world is more fucked than the United States. And we’re pretty fucked, so that’s saying a lot. Perhaps there’s a way to mitigate this mess by playing upon our worst instincts as a nation and the competitiveness that drives the world. Today we take an alternative view of our response to climate change through the lens of the most dispassionate and powerful observer in the world: The U.S. Military. It’s known for decades that the planet is fucked. And they’ve been preparing in plain sight.
Resources
IPCC- Summary for Policymakers
Institute for Policy Integrity- Gauging Economic Consensus on Climate Change
Center for Climate and Security- Chronology of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change
World Economic Forum- This is how climate change could impact the global economy
Swiss Re- World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken
New York Times- 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.
The Black Vault- 1990 U.S. Naval Report
Sub Love
Adam Tooze- Chartbook
Spencer Ackerman- Forever Wars
Book Love
Michael T. Klare- All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change
Pod Love
Slate- What Next TBD
Global Optimism- Outrage and Optimism
Unf*cker Love
Daron Davis: An unfortunate name but a profound podcast
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0:00.0 | Welcome back on summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirt and gritty. |
0:12.0 | Then down isn't it a pitted. |
0:13.9 | Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city. |
0:16.4 | All around, people looking half dead walking on the sidewalk harder than a match yet. |
0:22.9 | Welcome back on fuckers, sub on the sidewalk, harder than a matcher. Welcome back on fuckers, subfuckers, Eurofuckers, and our insane band of Renegade Down Under Fuckers. |
0:29.8 | The last couple of weeks have been pretty amazing. |
0:32.6 | We welcomed a ton of new listeners from all over the world from our friends at Pitchfork Economics |
0:36.7 | who heard our praise of their show and returned the favor to us. We hit the top 10 in Indonesia. So that |
0:43.2 | happened. And as always, we continue to welcome listeners from our dear friends at best of the left. |
0:48.6 | And some are even discovering us through their podcast apps. So if you're new here, welcome. |
0:55.5 | If you're an original unfucker, FMF, FR, and FRM, all hail, all hail out of Gammy County. On the news front, |
1:03.1 | since we've done a couple of more newsy type features recently, as you know, handsome Gavin, |
1:07.2 | or as my buddy Dan calls him, American psycho lookalike, Gavin Newsom, handily carried |
1:12.0 | the California recall. Clearly, the California unfuckers put this over the top. |
1:16.6 | Did they, though? |
1:18.6 | And up yonder in America's attic, Pretty JT is knee-deep in a shit show of his own making. |
1:24.6 | My man decided to call an election in Canada thinking they were in a |
1:27.9 | good position to steal even more seats and, well, here's a clip from the campaign trail with Trudeau. |
1:40.8 | Conservative opposition candidate Eric O'Toole is gaining momentum and even stealing progressive thunder |
1:45.7 | with labor initiatives from nDP leader jermite sing it's getting nuts up north and if you like me |
1:51.9 | are an ignorant american i invite you to check out our oh canada episode for a quick american style look |
1:58.2 | at canadian politics where we get mostly everything right. |
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