Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other Miracles of the Industrial Age @postcarboninstitute
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Jason, Rob, and Asher take a tour of New Caledonia, California's Central Valley, Bhutan, and Cuba to uncover the ins and outs of industrialism, especially as it has been applied to agriculture. Along the way they riff on how the hell we can escape from an -ism that completely engulfs us.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


Sources/Links/Notes:

• Tom Murphy “does the math” on declining wild mammal mass (https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/ecological-cliff-edge/) .
• Understanding the primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary sectors of the economy (investopedia.com/terms/s/sector.asp) .
• USDA graphic and statistics (usda.gov/media/blog/2020/01/23/look-americas-family-farms#) on the scale of family farms.
• Our World in Data: “Farm Size and Productivity (ourworldindata.org/farm-size) ”.
• Video clip (cc.com/video/1fupdb/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-intro-pancakes-sausage-on-a-stick) from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.
• Hossain, S., Jami, A.T. (2023). “Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Development and Governance in South Asia: Case Study of Bhutan. (link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-24545-9_5) ” In: Wu, HH., Liu, WY., Huang, M.C. (eds) Moving Toward Net-Zero Carbon Society. Springer Climate.
• Arch Ritter, “Can Cuba Recover from its De-Industrialization? (thecubaneconomy.com/articles/2011/09/can-cuba-recover-from-its-de-industrialization-i-characteristics-and-causes/) ”.
• Julia Wright, “The Little-Studied Success Story of Post-Crisis Food Security in Cuba: Does Lack of International Interest Signify Lack of Political Will? (jstor.org/stable/41945973) ” International Journal of Cuban Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2012, pp. 130–53.

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