In this special extended episode, Sonja and I talk Star Trek cruise, confronting scary futures, searching for solutions to the rise of the alt-right, how capitalism turns food into addictive substances, and how to clicker-train a ‘gator. Also ecocide and violence ethics. There’s a lot going on in this episode. It’s a whole thing.
Featuring returning guest vocal talent, Kristine!
On a personal note, after all that stuff in the monologs, I find myself in a completely different emotional place. Maybe with each new layer of grieving comes a deeper level of peace and acceptance. Podcasting is a hell of a way to process your feelings. There’s so much to talk about next time.
Hey, we’re gonna do some stuff on Twitch real soon. You can catch us at twitch.tv/nowornever.
News Sources
- “Existential Climate-Related Security Risk: A Scenario Approach” (Breakout)
- “1 Billion Acres At Risk For Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns” (NPR)
- “83 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump” (The New York Times)
- “White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony calling climate change ‘possibly catastrophic’” (The Washington Post)
- “Pompeo downplays climate change, suggests ‘people move to different places'” (CNN)
- “Democratic Party bars climate change debate” (pv magazine)
- “Jay Inslee tops Greenpeace climate grades, Joe Biden gets a D-“ (NBC)
- “Claims of Joe Biden plagiarism now have a climate chapter” (Grist)
- “We Are All Going to Die: An open letter and anti-manifesto to Climate Offensive, Extinction Rebellion, Earth Strike, and other nonviolent movements” by Black Oak Clique
- “Deep Green Resistance” by Lierre Keith, Aric McBay, and Derrick Jensen
- “Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it” (Salon)
- “Everything Is Fucked, Major New Extinction Report Finds” (Gizmodo)
- “‘Our house is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate” (The Guardian)
- “One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns” (National Geographic)
- “Rather Than Pay $150K in Ransom, Radiohead Publishes Stolen Music and Donates Sales to Environmental Group” (Good News Network)
Music
- “1 snow day (short)” by Uncle Milk (CC0 1.0)
- “Sleep Right” by Mise Darling (CC BY 4.0)
- “2:46am” by Malaventura (Public Domain Mark 1.0)
- “Plague” by Kai Engel (CC BY 4.0)
- “Galaxy Overload in the Circle of 8” by Ixtlan (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- “Ultra Deep Field” by Stellardrone (CC BY 3.0)
- “Thereming” by Mr Fab and His Bag of Heads (CC BY 3.0)
- “Unexpected Hoedown In Bagging Area” by Doctor Turtle (CC BY 4.0)
- “SLIP” by Glass Boy (CC BY-ND 3.0)
- “Get Radical” by Drums Like Machine Guns (CC BY 3.0 US)
- “Modulation of the Spirit” by Little Glass Men (CC BY 3.0 US)
Audio Assets
- “Downtown traffic and crowd noises” by Niedec (CC0 1.0)
- “Protest chant FX” by fredzed (CC0 1.0)
- “17 Chanting revolution” by Adam_N (CC0 1.0)
- “Thunder” by lennyboy (CC0 1.0)
- “Forest Ambience” by thearxx08 (CC0 1.0)
- “crickets.wav” by TicTacShutUp (CC BY 3.0)
- “ambulance siren.wav” by vedas (CC BY 3.0)
- “Earth Rumble.wav” by patchen (CC BY 3.0)
- “CrowdPanic.mp3” by belthazarus (CC0 1.0)
- “Usherfalls.wav” by spiehler (CC BY 3.0)
- “Roaring House Fire Wall Fall In.wav” by 7778 (CC0 1.0)
- “Fire Truck Siren” by contramundum (CC0 1.0)
- “TWO FIRE TRUCKS.wav” by chripei (CC0 1.0)
- “fire house alarm.mp3” by MoonlightShadow (CC0 1.0)
Further Listening
- “Debating Scientific Socialism (Ft. Srsly Wrong & Alyson Escalante)” (Revolutionary Left Radio)
- “Second Dark Age feat. Alan Moore” (Chapo Trap House)