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Iss2/Ch2 Do electric cars generate waste worse than nuclear power plants? The answer may surprise (and poison) you
In Chapter 2, we look at the human and environmental costs of mining lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel: critical minerals for phasing out fossil fuels.
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Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)
After finding that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy, Chris lays out green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet from climate change, it will be necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet with mining waste. Two tables are referenced in this episode:
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Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck
In Chapter 1, we try to figure out what energy source is best to replace fossil fuels, but things go off the rails immediately…and we wind up with an extended discussion about mining waste?
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Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)
In the Issue 2 Introduction, we find out that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy. The green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet from climate change, it will be necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet with mining waste.
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Excerpt: Comparing what economists and climate scientists say about climate change
This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 4. Apocalypse Nord This section is a side-by-side comparison of what mainstream economists versus climate scientists say about climate change. In this section, we use the generally accepted shorthand for warming: e.g., “2 degrees of warming” is shorthand for an average global temperature increase 2…
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Excerpt: These policies led to the Great Depression…what could go wrong?
This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 3. When the hottest commodity is human suffering The dominant model of development imagines that poor countries can harness the free market to lift themselves out of poverty. Initially, poor countries have little to offer, but should take advantage of whatever they are able to…
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Excerpt: Independence* Day
This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 2 Why was France so interested in Cameroon? Why were colonies worth fighting bloody wars over? The entire reason European nations wanted colonies was to get raw materials from them for cheap, then force the colonies to buy goods manufactured by the colonizers. If you…
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Excerpt: Are we measuring global poverty or intentionally underestimating it?
This page is an except from Issue 1 / Chapter 1 Cameroon is blessed with so much natural wealth that it could afford to meet all of its citizens’ basic needs. Yet Cameroon is one of the poorest countries on the planet. The United Nations’ preferred way of measuring poverty is called the Multidimentional Poverty…
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Finite Launch Party
If you’re in the Milwaukee area on Monday, October 13, don’t miss the Finite launch party! Grab some free snacks, meet the editors and cohosts, peep a sneak preview of future issues, and get a discounted subscription! Anyone who attends will get a free set of bonus chapters! If you have never been to the…
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Iss1/Ch4 If you liked the 2017 worldwide refugee crisis, you’ll love the complete desertification of the Sahel
Chris 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 mainstream economists predict small dents to the economy when climate scientists see existential threats to civilization itself? Perhaps Sahelian desertification and climate change can only be solved if…