THE ANTI-CATASTROPHE LEAGUE: Tom Ough and the Quest to Save Humankind

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tom Ough is a British writer, journalist, and researcher. He is currently a Senior Editor at UnHerd, where he writes about global-scale challenges including climate risk, geoengineering, and existential threats to humanity.

He is the author of The Anti‑Catastrophe League, a nonfiction book published in July 2025, which explores the people and ideas working to prevent human extinction. Tom also co-hosts the podcast Anglofuturism, which looks at Britain's place in the future of the world.

Earlier in his career, he worked as a journalist at The Telegraph and contributed research to organizations such as the Future of Humanity Institute, ARIA, and Blueprint Biosecurity.

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0:00.0	A safe trip begins with TRIP.
0:03.0	Take a road trip with your family, get there safely.
0:06.0	Do your trip checks.
0:08.0	T, drop up on island fuel, R, rest every two hours to
0:13.0	I inspect your pressure and tread.
0:16.0	P, preparing for the weather ahead.
0:18.0	A safe trip begins with TRIP. Oh, yes, that's, oh, yes, a safe trip begins with TRIP
0:21.5	A safe trip begins with T RRIP
0:25.8	Do the four trip checks before every journey
0:28.1	National Highways
0:29.6	This is a Global Player
0:33.9	Original podcast
0:35.3	Warning
0:36.2	The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:40.3	unexplainable experiences, and the billions of years old hibernating aliens.
0:44.3	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:47.3	It's supposed to be like very beautiful, like incandescent and like multicolored, and you know know, very few people have seen anything like it. But despite that, of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiberiber and welcome to the show that believes that everyone,
1:28.9	no matter how rational they may think they are, harbors a little bit of bad shit in them,
1:34.0	and that that is no bad thing. My name is Dan Schreiber. It's my job to eke the weirdness
1:40.8	out of my guests. I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by sea.
1:46.1	I'm just sitting at my desk, planning out a few weird adventures. I'm going to be up in Edinburgh
1:51.2	at the beginning of August. I'm going up because I do a few shows, as many listeners of this show know,
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