Shane Simonsen: The End of Cheap Energy, is Mad Max Our Future?
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Shane Simonsen discusses the energy crisis and how industrialization was built on the resource base of cheap coal and oil whose quality and quantity is depleting which will affect the complexity of modern society and exacerbate economic and political issues. The elites are dealing with a changing resource base they’re struggling to manage and they have a lot less power than we imagine. The real power lays with global multinational corporations who have co-opted nations and political parties. The loss of modern conveniences should see us move back to a more community-oriented setting. We’re headed into an era of techno-authoritarianism but at some point that technology will fail. The real trouble is when elites start turning on each other. The future of warfare and society could be biotechnological.
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About Dr. Shane Simonsen
Shane Simonsen grew up in subtropical Australia as a biology obsessed nerdling, consorting with blue tongue lizards, breeding mantis shrimps and molesting octopi when he wasn’t cultivating rare succulents and carnivorous plants.
He trained as a research biochemist, then made just enough money to retire before middle age to his experimental farm. There he works hard to develop novel and orphan crops that rely on zero inputs, including domesticating a staple tree crop from the Jurassic. He blogs regularly on this work at Zero Input Agriculture on Substack (or see older Zero Input Agriculture posts here) and will write a book about it someday.
Apart from farming he finds time to imagine the distant post-industrial future, creating fictional worlds that could quite possibly come to exist (though hopefully with less heart-slicing drama). His style of hard science fiction relies on extensive research into real research.
Sci-fi fans are tired of apocalypses. Star-trek futures have slipped out of reach. That just means it’s time to imagine a future that’s both realistic and inspiring instead.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. |
| 0:03.6 | A reminder again to support this insurgency against the empire. |
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| 0:23.7 | private chat. And we'll be having our first guest coming up soon in a week for paid subscribers |
| 0:30.4 | only. And you can also buy me a coffee or send reinforcements via donor box. And we're joined today by an interesting fellow. He's |
| 0:41.3 | been a listener of the podcast. And he's also been doing a lot of interesting work. Dr. Shane |
| 0:47.7 | Simmons of Zero Input Agriculture. Welcome to the podcast, Shane. Thank you, For Alli. Thank you for the opportunity to come and talk to you. |
| 0:56.9 | Big fan and I love the work that you do. Yeah. And, you know, your sort of line of inquiry is something |
| 1:03.5 | that I'm getting more interested in. Energy, agriculture has a lot to do with the stuff we cover. |
| 1:09.8 | And, you know, the broad topics we're looking at globalism, world government, world war, |
| 1:14.0 | technocracy, the climate, so-called crisis. |
| 1:17.6 | And so if you want to tell us a bit about yourself and the focus of your work. |
| 1:23.9 | Okay. |
| 1:24.5 | So just to tell you a bit about me, I'm a long-term biology nerd, grew up growing all sorts of plants, keeping all sorts of animals. |
| 1:33.6 | I went into research biochemistry, did a PhD and a postdoc, and that was around the time of the global financial crisis. |
| 1:42.6 | So in the lead up to that, I'd been getting more interested in |
| 1:46.3 | issues around oil supply. The peak oil community was very active around those years, and around |
| 1:53.5 | 2007 is when we saw this massive spike in oil prices right before the global financial crash. |
| 2:00.8 | And I'd also become more realistic about what academic life actually was, |
| 2:06.9 | that it was mostly just bureaucracy and not very much science. |
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