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Crazy Town — 177 episodes

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Finding Crazy Town Part 4: The Myth of Progress - Are We There Yet?

2

Finding Crazy Town Part 3: Unlimited Limits to Growth

3

Finding Crazy Town Part 2: Simplifying Complexity

4

Remembering Richard Heinberg: The Power Podcast

5

Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Straight of Everything

6

Gaslit by the Four Horsemen: Maddening Signs of the Apocalypse

7

What Lies Beneath: AMOC, El Niño, & Climate Chaos with Emily Schoerning

8

Join the 2026 Crazy Town Hall

9

The Hypocrite’s Guide to the Galaxy: Muddling Toward a Sustainable Footprint

10

The Lighter Side of Dark Ages with Chris Smaje

11

Take Me to the River: Getting Rid of Deadbeat Dams

12

Mailbag: The Crazy Townies Speak!

13

Birdbrained: When Nature and Technology Collide

14

Being Team Human in Crazy Town

15

You Ain’t Gonna Live Forever: The Dos and Don’ts of Legacy Building

16

Crazy Town Classics - Terror Management Theory

17

Getting Real about Resiliency with Emily Schoerning

18

Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction

19

EVs on Speed: The Jevons Paradox Strikes Again

20

Sane Town: A Realistic Vision of Life 100 Years from Now

21

Toasting Bread Is WAY Harder Than You Think: The Challenges of a Renewable Energy Future

22

Worried about the Future? Join the Club

23

Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland

24

Unsung Heroes: Sustainability Gurus Who Influenced the Crazy Town Worldview

25

Burned by Billionaires, with Chuck Collins

26

Crazy Town Classics - Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach

27

Et Tu, Bhutan? Cryptocurrency and Late-Stage Capitalism

28

Artifacts of Collapse: Touring the Crazy Town Museum

29

Crazy Town Classics - Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman

30

Just One Word: Microplastics, with Matt Simon

31

Crazy Town Classics - Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons

32

Will Trump's Tariffs Fuel or Foil the Degrowth Movement?

33

Blinded by the Light - Facing Reality with Renewable Energy

34

Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis - NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?

35

Bunkers, Bazookas, and Bespoke Moats: How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World

36

It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution

37

Going #2: The Dueling Rules of Nature That Every Good Earthling Needs to Know

38

Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant

39

A Temporary Techno Stunt: Tom Murphy on Falling out of Love with Modernity

40

Eating the Future: The NY Times Goes Full Ecomodernist on Food and Farming

41

Bargaining With Collapse: A Superabundance of Lab Grown Meat and Dryer Balls

42

The House Is Quite Literally on Fire: Peter Kalmus on the Climate Emergency Hitting Home

43

The Frequent Flyer Tree: Losing the Last Bit of Sense in the Climate Emergency

44

Shotgunning Hedwig: The Dilemma of Invasives and the Bizarre Decision to Slaughter Barred Owls

45

Breaking News: Crazy Town Joins the Newly Formed Department of Entropy

46

Bonus: Human Nature Odyssey

47

Escaping Escapism: What a Bizarre Rodent Ritual Can Teach Us About Navigating a World We Can't Really Escape

48

Escaping Otherism: Why Dr. Seuss Could Never Find a Rhyme for Genocide

49

Escaping Extremism: Slap Fighting Our Way to a More Civil Society

50

Escaping Humanocentrism: Why a Slime Mold Will Be President in 2028

51

Escaping Individualism: Why Rickey Don't Like It When Rickey Feels Lonely

52

Escaping Imperialism: Where Does Darth Vader Get His Lithium?

53

Escaping Capitalism: How to Replace the "Logic" of Psychopaths, Pharma Bros, and Private Prisons

54

Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear

55

Escaping Globalism: Rebuilding the Local Economy One Pig Thyroid at a Time

56

Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History

57

Escaping Speedism: How to Slow Down and Enjoy the Collapse

58

Escaping Urbanism: Green Acres, Climate Migration, and the End of the Megacity

59

Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion

60

Escaping Industrialism: How to Avoid Pancakes on a Stick and Other "Miracles" of the Industrial Age

61

Escape Routes: Let's Get the F**k out of Crazy Town

62

Crazy Town Season 6 Trailer

63

Bonus: Grief and Making Connections with LaUra Schmidt

64

Bonus: New Year's Dissolutions

65

Bonus: Vanilla Andreessen, Pygmy Marmosets, and Hi-Tech Delusions

66

Bonus: Bundyville and Stories that Need to Be Told with Leah Sottile

67

Bonus Riff: Infinite, Unlimited, Forever - Water in the Desert

68

Bonus: Holding the Fire - Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling

69

Bonus: Going Wild with Rae Wynn-Grant

70

Bonus: Bagdhad Bob Visits Climate Town

71

Bonus: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Great Unraveling

72

The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)

73

The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk

74

How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs

75

How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction

76

Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites' Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation

77

Announcement: 2023 Crazy Town Hall

78

How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of

79

Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies

80

How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex.

81

Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in "Saving the World"

82

Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist

83

How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class

84

How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO

85

How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity

86

Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual

87

What the Phuck Is a Phalse Prophet?

88

Bonus: Drawing Insights with Stuart McMillen

89

Bonus: An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen

90

Bonus: Human Rights and Multispecies Justice with Danielle Celermajer

91

Bonus: A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus

92

Bonus: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff

93

Bonus: Angry Birds and Hairbrained Humans with Mary Roach

94

Announcement: Power Podcast with Richard Heinberg

95

Bonus: Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby

96

Bonus: The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky

97

Skyrocketing Population and Carbon Dioxide: Watershed Moments Wrap-up

98

Buying and Dying: How Online Shopping Grew from a Small Weed Deal into a Global Environmental and Societal Disaster

99

Greed over Need: Why Neoliberalism Sucks and How It Sabotages Community

100

Chillin' and Killin': How Air Conditioning Has Altered Human Behavior and the Environment

101

Throwing Superman through a Cigarette Truck: The Insidious Manipulation of Advertising

102

Highway to Hell: How Road Infrastructure Traps Us in an Unsustainable Nightmare

103

Hippos in the Bayou: Human Hubris and the Ecological Mayhem of Introduced Species

104

The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity

105

It’s the End of the World’s Fair as We Know It: Why Technology Won’t Save Us

106

Colonizing the Sky: The Untold Environmental Toll of Skyscrapers

107

The Bright Side Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: How Positive Thinking Undermines Sustainability

108

Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons

109

Bonus: The Legal Legacy of Colonization with Sherri Mitchell

110

A Load of Papal Bull: Greenlighting Colonization and the Mindset of Extraction

111

Injustice for All: The Invention of Racism to Justify a Putrid Power Hierarchy

112

Bonus: Patriarchy and the Cultural Roots of the Climate Crisis with Amy Westervelt

113

A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Overexploitation of Animals and Nature

114

The Taming of the Slough: Humanity's History of Trying to Control Water

115

Bonus: Climate Sabotage with Tim DeChristopher

116

Season 4 Announcement

117

Bonus: Stop Saving the Planet with Jenny Price

118

Bonus: Holiday Guide for the Perplexed

119

Bonus: It's All Paradox with Douglas Rushkoff

120

Bonus: Oceans of Knowledge with Sylvia Earle

121

Bonus: What Could Possibly Go Right with Vicki Robin

122

Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy

123

Bonus: Climate Craziness with Peter Kalmus

124

Hidden Drivers Wrap-up, or... the Story of the Throbbing Amygdala

125

Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach

126

Feedback Loops and Climate Catastrophe, or... the Story of the Baseball Bloodbath

127

Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman

128

Overproduction of Elites and Political Upheaval, or... the Story of Rich People Doing Stupid Things

129

Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or... the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar

130

The Attention Economy and Nature Depletion, or… the Story of Einstein Watching Cat Videos

131

Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or... the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion

132

The Myth of Progress and Limits to Growth, or... the Story of the World's Largest Shovel

133

Complexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp Microphone

134

Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or... the Story of the Duelling Economists

135

Conspiracy Theories and Collapse, or… the Story of UFOs and Free Energy

136

Self Domestication and Overshoot, or… the Story of Foxes and Russian Melodrama

137

Fear of Death and Climate Denial, or… the Story of Wolverine and the Screaming Mole of Doom

138

Crazy Town Trailer

139

Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or... the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers

140

Cognitive Bias and Global Warming, or... the Story of Cattle Prods and Ice Cream Shops

141

Season 3 Announcement

142

Bonus: Green Dreamer with Jason Bradford

143

Bonus: The Practical Stoic with Richard Heinberg

144

Bonus: Decolonizing the Mind with Sherri Mitchell

145

Tis but a Scratch: the Insanity of Getting the Economy "Back to Normal"

146

A Time to Speak up, but Also a Time to Shut up: White Privilege and Systemic Racism

147

Mailbag: Dark Humor and Sustainability from Listeners around the World

148

Breaking the Brady Vase: Coronavirus and Fault Lines in American Politics

149

Poked by a Porcupine: the Politics of Contraction as We Encounter the Limits to Growth

150

Doors and Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Reimagining Lifeboat Ethics in the Age of Overshoot

151

Koala Butts Ablaze: Growth, Conservation, and Collapse in the Adaptive Cycle

152

Announcement: Luciferian Mailbag Call

153

Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Stokes Controversy over Renewable Energy

154

Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: Squandering Energy and Rethinking Technology

155

An Ecofascist and a Social Justice Warrior Walk into a Bar: Extremist Politics and Censorship

156

Foreclosing on the Frackers: Coronavirus and the Future of Energy

157

Delusion to the Left, Denial to the Right, and the Environmental Reality Caught in the Middle

158

I Can't Drive 35: the Politics of Rationing and its Potential to Shift the Economy

159

Coronavirus and the Three Bears: the Right-Sized Crisis for a Transition to Sustainability?

160

Our Naked Emperors Catch Coronavirus: How to Think about Collapse with Nafeez Ahmed

161

Announcement: Keeping up with Coronavirus

162

The 10,000-Mile Cod, Insane Global Trade, and the Path to a Resilient Local Economy

163

The Long and Shart of Extreme Travel as Climate Chaos Reigns

164

The Adventures of Bill and Lou: the Obscene Politics of Climate Change and Overshoot

165

Band-Aid Town and the Psychology of Climate Change

166

Helicopters and Kick the Can: Money in the Real World of Energy and the Environment

167

My Dinner Is Stuck in Traffic: Fossil Fuels and the Food Transition

168

Tackling Inequality in the Economy, One Pair of Lederhosen at a Time

169

They'll Think of Somethingisms: Is Technology Really the Answer to Overshoot?

170

Mosquito-Flavored Popcorn: When Climate Scientists and Economists Go off the Rails

171

Deer Sinew and Beetle Biscuits: Raising Kids in the Age of Climate Chaos

172

Zombies, Magic Rocks, Collapse, and Other Fun Sustainability Stories

173

Solar Freakin' Roadways: How Technological Optimism Undermines Sustainability

174

My Car Is Bigger than Yours: Consumerist Dreams and Environmental Nightmares

175

1.21 Jigawatts: Energy Literacy and the Real Scoop on Fossil Fuels

176

Punching Ronnie in the Mouth: Limits to Growth and Economic Lies

177

Orangutans and Santa Suits: Who's Crazy When It Comes to Climate Change?