Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part one)
Politics Theory Other
Politics Theory Other
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The first cut on this record has been cross-format focused for Airplay success. |
| 0:05.0 | The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to |
| 0:21.6 | I'm going to |
| 0:23.6 | the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:50.6 | My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Jason Hickle. |
| 0:54.4 | We talked about his book, Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World. |
| 0:59.7 | In part one of the interview we discussed the comprehensive and all-encompassing character of the ecological crisis, |
| 1:06.0 | which extends well beyond the issue of CO2 emissions. |
| 1:09.5 | We also talked about the violent emergence of capitalism |
| 1:12.1 | and how that process entailed the radical transformation of human subjectivity and how humans |
| 1:17.9 | relate to the natural world. Finally, we talked about the emergence of gross domestic product |
| 1:23.0 | as an indicator of economic and societal progress and well-being. Today's show is brought to you by PTO's supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books, |
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| 1:40.3 | A Critical History of Life in Outer Space by Fred Sharman. No human has ever gone farther into |
| 1:46.5 | space than the moon, a grain of sand about 5.5 inches away from our tiny pea-gravel Earth. Are |
| 1:53.9 | other worlds really possible? Space Forces is a fascinating radical history of space exploration, |
| 2:00.5 | from the Russian cosmists of the 1890s |
| 2:02.9 | to the technology billionaires who want to colonize space for their own wealth, space |
| 2:08.2 | reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers |
| 2:13.2 | of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation. Space Forces, a critical |
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