Our December episode addresses populationism and ecosocialist alternatives, plus reviews of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and nuclear-themed BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness (1985) discussing the ecological themes of each.
Full script available here.
Timecodes (visible on Spotify and iTunes but not the embedded Anchor player):
- Recs: 3.34
- Furious Political Thought – Democide, populationism, ecomodernism and ecosocialism: 6.42
- Reviews – Godzilla KOTM (2019) and Edge of Darkness (1985): 45.10
- Local Area Network – Climate refugees in the Pacific: 1.21.22
Recs:
- Thanos Was Wrong – Eugenics and Overpopulation, Renegade Cut video on YouTube
- Thanos Was Wrong! The Universal Malthusian Trap, Professor Politics video on YouTube
- Just Transmissions podcast
- Q&A Pacific, Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Fijian Broadcasting Corporation TV episode
Furious Political Thought references:
- World faces ‘climate apartheid’ risk, 120 million more in poverty: UN expert, UN News article
- Exxon knew about climate change almost 40 years ago, article by Shannon Hall on Scientific American
- Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder, book by RJ Rummell
- Dissecting Those ‘Overpopulation’ Numbers, article by Ian Anguson Climate and Capitalism blog
- Too Many People? Population, Immigration and the Environmental Crisis, book by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism, article by Ian Angus on Climate and Capitalism blog
- Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, collective statement on Climate and Capitalism blog
Pop-culture retrospective references (in order of appearance):
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), feature film
- Monsters of the Rift, Jase Short essay in Mustachio & Barr (eds) book Giant Creatures in Our World: Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
- Shin Godzilla (2016), feature film
- Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971), feature film
- Godzilla (2014), feature film
- Kong: Skull Island (2017), feature film
- Godzilla vs Kong (2020 forthcoming), feature film
- Rampage (2018), feature film
- Edge of Darkness (1985), BBC miniseries
- The Conquest of Space in the Time of Power, Situationist International text read by Derek on Where’s My Jetpack YouTube
- The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back, book by James Lovelock
- We’re all doomed! 40 years from global catastrophe – and there’s NOTHING we can do about it, says climate change excerpt, article by Sarah Sanders on Daily Mail (via donotlink)
- James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with ‘greens’, article by Leo Hickman on The Guardian
- Panpsychism: The idea that everything from spoons to stones is conscious is gaining academic credibility, article by Olivia Goldhill on Quartz
- Non-overlapping magisteria, Wikipedia article on a concept formulated by Stephen Jay Gould
- Marx’s Ecology, book by John Bellamy Foster
Local Area Network references:
- Are there climate change refugees in the Pacific? article by Ian Fry on Asia & The Pacific Policy Society
- No special treatment for Behrouz Boochani, says New Zealand, article by Eleanor Ainge Roy on The Guardian
- A weak climate bill based on a feeble consensus is no ‘nuclear-free moment’, article by Steve Abel on The Spinoff
- Fem Force Aotearoa podcast
Outro links:
Music sampled:
- Where’s My Jetpack, by Radio Free Babylon
- We Survive, by The Happy Plaster (featured track)
- BXL, by Chuki Beats (intro background)
- Distant Star, by Thundermine (Furious Political Thought segue)
- Various, by Lakey Inspired (Furious Political Thought background)
- Various, by Ken MacLeod (pop-culture retrospective background)
- Noire #1, by Pedro (pop-culture retrospective background)
- Waltz in the Moonlight, by Tryad (LAN background music)
- Spring in my Step, by Silent Partner (outro background)
Video sampled:
- Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959), feature film
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