Diving into the Wreckage 2, "Fossil Capital" w/ C. Derrick Varn
Added 2022-01-28 11:01:01 +0000 UTCThe long-awaited second installment of Diving Into The Wreckage, the VarnVlog/Antifada crossover series is here! This time, Sean and Derrick put on their doomer caps to discuss capitalism and global warming: Is there a way out within this mode of production? Why have emissions ramped up so much in our lifetimes? What kind of political forces make climate change so intractable? And what does the future look like if we keep going down this path?
To watch the video recording of this conversation, do what you should be doing already and subscribe to C. Derrick Varn's excellent content as well: https://www.patreon.com/varnvlog
Music: Gary Numan - This Wreckage
Comments
Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm and Climate Leviathan by Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann
Jory
2023-02-03 23:00:28 +0000 UTCReally great book
Jory
2023-02-03 23:00:12 +0000 UTCI like that varns awkward & annoying tho he has annoying teacher & professor habits, but I like that he’s at least *trying* to reference more primary sources in podcast/vlog/zoom class room format such as it is. It’s a little weirdly dissonant tho, as I often don’t use podcasts for news, entertainment or music entirely…they’re sort of a talk radio/infotainment chatter where it’s hard to be a passive radio listener that’s maybe a gateway drug for other things idk? & he does engage with people in ways that are in practice nuanced w/o always smothering them…idk if he’s pro mod or anti mod or what?
Jim
2022-02-17 10:03:32 +0000 UTCSo there’s all this talk about fossil capital, what’s good reading about disappearance of clean (fresh partly) water & lack of (waste or drinking) water privatization in Japan but yes in Cuba? I’ve been reading all I can find about it or even the ‘it’s nobody’s fault seemingly’ & the water source reliability & cleanliness gets worse despite best of intentions & no documents or anyone telling the story seems to have an incentive to lie, cover up or take a side for their own individual benefit.
Jim
2022-02-17 10:00:08 +0000 UTCFantastic Ep thank you guys
Evan
2022-01-31 16:59:47 +0000 UTCThanks!
Nathan Gilbert
2022-01-30 00:07:59 +0000 UTCFossil Capital by Andreas Malm and Climate Leviathan by Mann and Wainwright.
Steven Aracic Del Corso
2022-01-29 20:41:11 +0000 UTCMate I've actually read Capitalism in the Web of life and it blew my mind fwiw
Alexander Baughen
2022-01-29 11:17:01 +0000 UTCseconded Id love a reading list plz, ezpecially the "mom book" mentioned in the last 10 min
Devin Caines
2022-01-29 07:28:33 +0000 UTCWhat are the books they keep mentioning?
Nathan Gilbert
2022-01-29 01:55:35 +0000 UTCI think i may have to listen to that again... so much to unpack and mull over there
Jason John
2022-01-28 21:58:50 +0000 UTCHave either of you come across the work of Jason W Moore? https://jasonwmoore.com/ https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/10/the-world-ecology-capitalism-and-nature-with-jason-moore/ I haven't read capitalism in the web of life, I have read a history of the world in seven cheap things. I know he's focused a lot of critique on fossil Capital and wants to situate the origins of the climate crisis and capitalism in 16th century colonial expansion, not in industrial Britain
Kyle Wolter
2022-01-28 20:08:47 +0000 UTC
