Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum @postcarboninstitute
Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum  @postcarboninstitute
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this episode we travel in time to the year 2125, to visit the Crazy Town museum, which showcases today’s world of wanton consumption and profligate waste. How will humans in 2125 – if there are any of us left – judge the things everyone sees as normal today? Jason, Rob, and Asher take turns serving as expert curators of this future museum, nominating items that best encapsulate how foolish and environmentally ruinous our priorities are. At the end we call on you, dear listener, to share what you would include in the museum.


Originally recorded on 7/11/25. Visit Crazy Town (resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/) on the web.


(Spoiler Alert) View Artifacts in the Museum:

• Sportscar hopping (youtube.com/watch?v=TaIRKXKGyqE) from skyscraper to skyscraper (from the movie Furious 7)
• "Ronnie Fieg Has Mastered The Art Of Collecting (hauteliving.com/2024/12/ronnie-fieg-has-mastered-the-art-of-collecting/760644/) " in Haute Magazine
• Echo PB-9010T (echo-usa.com/blowers/pb-9010t) backpack leaf blower
• SoFi Stadium (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi_Stadium) in Los Angeles, California
• Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inaugural address (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/reagan2.asp)
• Barbie Pool Party Playset (shop.mattel.com/products/barbie-dreamhouse-playset-hmx10)
• The world's biggest landfill (reviewjournal.com/business/republic-services-nobody-else-can-handle-las-vegas-trash/) in Las Vegas, Nevada
• The world's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas (science.howstuffworks.com/transport/largest-ship-in-the-world.htm)
• Jimmy Dean blueberry pancakes and sausage on a stick (walmart.com/ip/Jimmy-Dean-Blueberry-Pancakes-Sausage-on-a-Stick-12-count-30-oz/12444403)


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