We are joined by everyone's favorite tweet thread boi, @yungneocon, to talk about whether Soviet-style central planning is any more or less capable of addressing ecological crises than capitalism. We also discuss our favorite leftist policy guy, Matty B.
Thread on forced settlement: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1120483025593282561
Thread on energy & ecology: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1094707171361767424
Big buncha free books: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1118335036246364161
Sources mentioned by yungneocon:
Against the Grain - James C. Scott (Ryan also highly recommends this one)
Farm to Factory - Robert C. Allen
A New Welfare Theory - Albert & Hahnel
The Mirage of an Economics of Knowledge - Philip Mirowski
What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism - Magdoff & Foster
The Origins of Fossil Capital - Malm
Protocol - Alexander Galloway
Soviet Faiths & Lost Alternatives
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak
The Entrepreneurial State
Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
Magnetic Mountain
211: The Firmest Episode Yet
209: Peeter da Bo$$ and A$$alt Ryfle rap about the new$
Ep 20: Ep 19: 208.mp3|Biotech in agriculture (X.7)
207: Alien Mask
206: More like Buttcoin, Right Guys?
205: Capitalism, Hierarchy, and Energy
204: Chakra vs. Super Soldier Serum
203: Jack Benzos, Boy Genius
202: Industrial Ecology
201: Looking Fondly Back at the Last 43 Decades
111: All Dead Go to Hell
110: Lord Salisbury Loves Morrissey
109: Puerto Musko
108: Existence is Futile!
107: Blade Runner 2049? More like Blade Runner 949.
106: Slaves, but not exactly the bad kind (Energy Series Pt. 3)
105: Energy Sculpting the Future (Energy Series Pt. 2)
104: How Renewables Blew Us Away (Energy Series Pt. 1)
Neighbor Science Episode 3: Now for Only $19.99
102: Space Tyranny > Regular Tyranny
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