Issue 1 | Climate Change and Freshwater: Thirsty Cameroon & the Lake Chad Catastrophe (podcast)
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Iss1/Ch4 If you liked the 2017 worldwide refugee crisis, you’ll love the complete desertification of the Sahel
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/014-issue-1-chapter-4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley conclude Issue 1 by discussing how mainstream economists and climate scientists can look at the same data and reach wildly different conclusions. How can…
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Iss1/B3 Does Anyone Here Love Ahmaduo Ahidjo? Anyone?
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/bonus-placeholderX.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSWhy did Ahidjo suddenly resign in 1982 at the height of his power? How did Paul Biya wrest power from a seemingly all-powerful Ahidjo? Chris and Charley…
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Iss1/B2 How to Become a Dictator (a Friend was Asking)
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Iss1/Ch3 How Many Cameroonians Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Trick Question: IMF Shut Off the Electricity
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Iss1/B1 Cameroon’s Independence Movement: in which the French Send People to the Hospital for Waving a UN Flag
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Iss1/Ch2 Independence* Day
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/012-issue-1-chapter-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley discuss the incredible story of how Cameroon’s independence movement took on the French Empire and almost won. Then, they trace the sad story of…
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Iss1/Ch1 Desertification Happens When Raindrops Meet Him at the Bar Instead of Percolating into Groundwater: Stay Thirsty, My Friends
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/011-issue-1-chapter-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris and Charley discuss the Sahel’s desertification crisis, and how this has led to the collapse of Lake Chad. Then, they try to decide whether global poverty…
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Iss1/Intro Lake Chad: Shorty got low low low low low low low
https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/010-issue-1-introduction.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | Deezer | RSSChris explains the stakes of Issue 1. We begin with atrocious statistics on humanity’s access to drinking water and uncover some shocking examples of the collapse of…