Thread by @Planet_Critical

Want to know more about Planet: Critical? Here's a #megathread of episodes tackling the #energy, #economic and #ecological crises.
It all began with @ProfSteveKeen on The Economics of Climate Change: how our economic model is driving the climate crisis.

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Net Zero Won’t Save Us: Earth System scientist @JamesGDyke on the fallacy of determining climate change policies that prioritise ‘business as usual’ over radical change. Episode: #climatetwitter

The Climate Crisis and the Climate Crash: Mining and minerals expert Simon Michaux discussed the geopolitics of resources and why the post-industrial West is more vulnerable to collapse. Episode:

Grassroots Economics for a Better Future: Economist @blair_fix explained why our current economic system is contributing to both the climate and social crises. Episode:

The Myth of Efficiency: Energy research scientist @CareyWKing revealed why relying on new technologies will never solve the climate crisis, and explained the thermodynamics driving the problem and limiting our solutions. Episode:

Confronting the Crisis: Physical chemist @BardiUgo explained why short-term thinking is debilitating our response to the crisis (including calls to immediately stop using fossil fuels), and why hope has to be part of the solution. Episode:

Seeing the Big Picture: Systems thinker @NJHagens gave a sweeping analysis of the intersection of energy, economics and ecology, explaining where our extractive appetite comes from, and what to do about it. Episode:

Save the Forests to Save the Planet: Physicist Anastassia Makarieva revealed how forests manage the world’s water systems, and explained how humankind's environmental disturbance has pushed life from self-regulation into chaos. Episode:

Common Sense vs Economics: Ecological economist, Joshua Farley, joined me to discuss why neoliberal economic theory is built on a skewed understanding of human relationships and cannot be the answer to the crises it creates. Episode:

The Thermodynamics of Collapse: Atmospheric scientist @nephologue explained how our economy is bound by the laws of thermodynamics, using a wonderful example of snowflakes to drive the point home. Episode:

Life After Fossil Fuels: Systems thinker Alice Friedemann says we cannot solve the climate crisis without understanding the energy crisis—and why we need fossil fuels to manage the transition to a new world. Episode:

How Western Philosophy Created the Crisis: Ecologist and author @carlsafina on the origins of the West’s dominance and how it exported a culture which has no respect for the natural world. Episode:

How Science is Failing the Crisis: Ecologist Dan Fiscus argues we need to infuse the scientific model with ethics and values to create a new paradigm which prioritises planetary well-being. Episode:

Transforming Food Systems to Transform the World: Biologist and farmer Jason Bradford explains how to transform food systems to make them more rural, sustainable, and to provide a net-positive energy consumption. Episode:

How To Make Markets Serve People: Energy market strategist @cjenscook on on the legal frameworks and agreements to create what he calls "market 3.0", a network-based market that benefits planet and people. Episode:

Journalism's Role in a Crisis: Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter @ian_urbina on how the industry must evolve and adapt to meet the demands of this critical moment in history, and why a free press is worth saving.

Russia's War: The Impact of Sanctions and Markets: @cjenscook on how the energy market will affect the war's geopolitics; mutual agreements; the weaponization of the dollar; and how to build markets which promote peace.

Saving Democracy to Save the Planet: @DavidOrrCBE on the critical importance of politics, active citizenship and reforming education—if we have the time. Watch now:

Degrowth and Ecosocialism: Economic anthropologist
@jasonhickel on how reimagining economics to support and nurture human dignity would keep us within our planetary boundaries and lift the entire world out of poverty. Listen to the full episode now:

Buying Time With Geoengineering: Physicist and engineer Ye Tao on why we must prioritise cooling the planet if humanity is to survive, how to do so with mirrors—and why geoengineering is equally not the long-term solution the earth needs. Listen now:

Urgency, Action and Ethics: Entrepreneur and Chairman of the Merz Institute @jjmerz on using the tools of the advertising industry to induce mass behavioural changes on a subconscious level—to save the planet from our overconsumption. Listen now:

The Future of Activism: @ExtinctionR co-founder @gailbradbrook on how activist groups can and must evolve their messaging and mission from raising the alarm to implementing solutions. Listen now:

@ExtinctionR @gailbradbrook Debunking Green Growth: @timparrique on how neoliberal ideologies have co-opted the climate movement by promoting “green growth” and how we can use degrowth to imagine economies which prioritise planet and people. Listen now:

The Climate Crisis is a Social Crisis: @richardheinberg of @postcarbon on social cohesion and energy rationing - that political division is the main threat to necessary climate progress. Listen now:

Price Wars: How Prices Caused the Crisis - @rupert_russell on how global price shocks create cascading political and economic crises—and how the climate movement can gain ground by understanding how commodity markets cause chaos. Listen now:

Creating Deliberative Democracies: Tom Prugh and Susan Clark on bottom-up political processes—how to create them and why they're so effective at engaging citizens and crossing political divides.

Creating Complex Solutions: @postcarbon CEO Asher Miller on why part of the challenge we face is accepting diversity in solutions—and that we may not always agree with those on the same team.

Understanding Resilience: Graeme Cumming on how we build resilient systems, any how good processes lead to good outcomes. Listen now:

Webs of Meaning: @JeremyRLent on combining traditional knowledge with scientific understanding to navigate the polycrisis, the impact of cultural worldviews and how to shift them, and using interconnectedness as a foundation to create a more diverse world. planetcritical.com/p/the-meaning-…

Global Climate Compensation: Physicist @HenrikNordborg on his carbon tax plan - taxing the world’s 300 fossil fuel companies on production, and redistributing that wealth per capita around the world. Watch now:

Pro-Power: How the Far Right Stole America - Investigative journalist @kathsstewart reveals how the USA’s far right used abortion to polarize political debate and unite a multi-denominational movement to enact their vision of white ethno-nationalism. planetcritical.com/p/pro-power-ho…

The Truth About Green Finance: @greenfinanceobs founder Fred Hache explains how the markets commodified the climate crisis: why carbon credit schemes don't work, the advent of biodiversity offsetting, and the tokenisation of environmental protection.