Planet: Critical

<p>“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”</p><p>— Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2</p><p>The two hemispheres of our brain collaborate to produce a coherent understanding of the world—at least, that’s...

<p>Gordon Katic is the founder of the award-winning podcast production company, Cited Media. This week, they’re launching Green Dreams, the new season of their flagship podcast which tells stories of radical...

<p>Collapse has historically benefited the 99%.</p><p>That’s the amazing conclusion of Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Luke is a research associate at the Centre for...

<p>How can we become good ancestors? </p><p>Permaculturist and educator, Kara Huntermoon, says the hobbies we pick up now can be skills we pass on to our children, even if we never have to use them ourselves. In this...

<p>How we create knowledge is as important as the knowledge itself. </p><p>This is the message of this week’s guest, Aboriginal scholar and author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In his explanation of the importance of learning...

<p>Is the world even collapsing?</p><p>Joseph Tainter is a Professor at Utah State University and the author of The Collapse of Complex Societies. He explains on this episode that collapse happens when a civilisation...

<p>We’ve been protesting for decades. Is it time to escalate?</p><p>Rowan Tilly is an elder of the British peace and environment movements. She has risked jail multiple times to raise awareness of the atrocities carried...

<p>We’ve been protesting for decades. Is it time to escalate?</p><p>Rowan Tilly is an elder of the British peace and environment movements. She has risked jail multiple times to raise awareness of the atrocities carried...

<p>All of our industries are going to have to shrink. But how do we shrink the good ones?</p><p>Martin Hensher is a health economist and a Professor of Health Systems Sustainability at the University of Tasmania. He’s...

<p>Women’s bodies have always been the cornerstone of reproduction. So has Earth’s. It’s why the enclosure and appropriation of both is fundamental to the accumulation of the capitalist class.</p><p>On this...

<p>Ask anyone anywhere what’s the leading cause of global heating and they’ll tell you: fossil fuels. But what if we’re all wrong? </p><p>Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop is a scientist for the World Preservation Foundation...

<p>How do we survive?</p><p>Max Wilbert is a long-time activist who spent the past few years defending Thacker Pass, and recently joined CELDF to as part of their new strategy to build out community resilience. I first...

<p>What makes humans special?</p><p>Nothing. But a small band of us in the Western hemisphere have inculcated ourselves over thousands of years to believe in our supremacy over the natural world. Christine Webb...

<p>There’s more information than ever — but we can’t agree on what it means.</p><p>We think of language as a tool of communication. But it’s so much more than that. Language builds worlds and shapes realities; language...

<p>Don’t Talk About Politics!</p><p>That’s the title of neuroscientist and political theorist Sarah Stein Lubrano’s first book. A phenomenal and heavily researched foray into why debate is a useless form of political...