When you watched Back to the Future - well the sequels, and Lord knows you prob regretted that choice - and you saw Biff Tanner got a sports almanac of the future and was thus able to win all his bets. What if you could see what was going to happen and but instead of football winners you saw the US …ending democracy? Seizing Greenland? Annexing Canada?
Outros
Why these tracks? Listen and find out. And if you think they’re no good, have a word with yourself.
Would you buy a short position? Or would you try to warn and maybe change things?
I’ve only been following
and , via their Know Your Enemy show, since 2020. But if you’re wandering around in a daze wondering how we got here, when things seemed on the right track not so long ago, take heart. Completely without permission, which means I will of course cave and redact the minute I hear they’re not happy with this choice, at the end of today’s episode I’ve added outtakes from their August 2022 episode which - f*ck me - is spookily on point for showing where we might wind up around now.But that’s not really the point. We start this episode with the stakes. Hands up, we thought it might be a Charlie-Brown-Lucy-Football moment, but decided anyway to reserve judgment on new US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and reported on his confirmation hearing in that spirit. In part because as an investor in Fervo Energy, there was an outside chance that he might use his new role - if not to stop the destruction of renewables in the US - to follow through on something so ironic it feels like the universe could just be serious about this: what if fracking tech unlocked the ability to have carbon-free baseload electricity from geothermal, anywhere on Earth?1
Stupid boy.
So grateful that Joseph Gelfer, sustainability strategist, and author of Climate Populism 101 - which is underselling him (if friend-of-the-show Solitaire Townsend is also sustainability strategist, Gelfer presents as ‘Solitaire with an axe’) - joined us for a chat.
We’ve been noodling on the whole Thiel/Musk/Trump/Vance thing. Particularly when it comes to trying to decode intentions on AI and climate. Consider this a scene-setter, but no need to wait for further damage. You could just listen to Joseph Gelfer, strap in, and get to a barricade.
We’re kindof there now.
All the Outros
We don’t pick these at random. They’re part of the soundscape we try to craft.
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For the love of God Chris please do not give up on that. FFS.
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