Climate and Capital

2018 pt 3

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I detta avsnitt har vi äran att välkomna Tommy Andersson, en framstående expert på algoritmer och professor i nationalekonomi vid Lunds Universitet. Tommy är även aktiv som styrelseledamot i både Society for Economic Design och Society for Social Choice and Welfare. Genom sitt ideella arbete med bl.a. beslutsalgoritmer har han bidragit till att spara ett skattekapital på mellan 400 och 1000 miljoner kronor. Men hur gick detta till, och vad innebär algoritmer egentligen?

Under avsnittets gång kommer vi att utforska den otroliga kraften som algoritmer har inom våra politiska och ekonomiska system, och hur de kan bidra till att skapa rättvisa, minska segregation, skapa bättre valsystem och spara samhället miljarder i skattepengar. Vi kommer att ta upp konkreta exempel som Tommy har arbetat med, såsom STEP – Sveriges och Skandinaviens första njurbytesprogram – och den första algoritmen i världen som har använts för att geografiskt placera kvotflyktingar.

Gå inte miste om detta fascinerande avsnitt av "Utanför boxen, innanför ramarna", där vi utforskar hur matematik, ekonomi och system kan revolutionera samhället och bidra till en bättre värld. Välkomna!

11. Algoritmer, Nationalekonomi, Rättvisa, Skolsystem, Valsystem & Integration

Ecologist Andreas Malm explains how a disconnection from time and nature blinds the Global North to the immediate realities of climate change - as two centuries of carbon returns to threaten a present society frozen by the ideological constraints of capitalism, only a radical transformation of our politics and economy will keep us afloat as the storm rolls in.

Andreas is author of "The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World" from Verso.

The past is always catching up on us: Time, trauma and the climate storm to come.

Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright explore the possible political and economic futures of a planet under rapid climate change - from the emergence of a planetary sovereignty over a global energy system, to the fracturing of the globe into nativistic zones of control and violent exclusion - and explain why nothing is certain but radical change.

Geoff and Joel are authors of the book "Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2545-climate-leviathan

On climate change, state power and the worlds to come.

In a third Moment of Truth that is definitely not all about comparing the Holocaust and Slavery, Jeff Dorchen looks at the victimhood of all of America's victims, and thinks there might be more in common between the oppressed than we think, and there might be more of them than we think, and they might be stronger than we think. If you're thinking what I'm thinking...

Read the transcript here: https://thisishell.com/announcements/349

This is not a comparison between the Holocaust and Slavery: Part Three.

Historian Anna-Lisa cox traces the westward journey of America's Black pioneers - as a first Great Migration of African American farming settlements spread across the Midwest, free Black families experienced new levels of self-determination and prosperity in frontier communities, as well as a White backlash against their advancements.

Anna-Lisa is author of "The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality" from PublicAffairs: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/anna-lisa-cox/the-bone-and-sinew-of-the-land/9781610398107/

When Black farms blossomed on the American frontier.

The death of media [21:24] / The poisoning of Flint [1:11:13] / Living on a dying planet [2:07:34] / Green revolution in Rojava [3:01:45] / Degenerates against fascism [3:43:03]

Episode 1012: Doom and Bloom (Full Broadcast - July 14 2018)

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In a special unlocked episode that we was too good to keep to ourselves, we thoroughly annihilate Dan Pfieffer's new book "Yes We Still Can" along with the entire universe of ex-Obama admin comm guys who also have a podcast you may have heard of.

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Writer Roy Scranton looks at the signs of this doomed civilization - a collapsing political system, massive environmental degradation and a future of inevtiable, irreversible climate change - and explains why the thrilling and terrifying task required of us is to let go of this world and create a new one, together, while there's still time.

Roy is author of "We're Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change" from Soho Press: https://sohopress.com/books/were-doomed-now-what/

Learning to live on a dying planet.

Matt Broomfield and Tolhildan of The Internationalist Commune of Rojava discuss the daily work of ecological and social revolution - from restoring the health of liberated lands, to learning new ways of living and working together.

Matt wrote the op-ed Here’s why we’re planting trees in northern Syria for The Independent. Dog Section Press is raising funds to publish the commune's book Make Rojava Green Again.

It feels like everyday life under the revolution: Growing a new world in Rojava.

Writer Cyrus Farivar explains why yesterday's privacy laws are no match for today's surveillance technology - as our devices generate massive quantities of data on our locations and activity, a patchwork of 20th century laws and 21st century workarounds from corporations and the state expose us to the threat of perfect, secret surveillance.

Cyrus is the author of "Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech" from Melville House. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/habeas-data/

Your phone is a snitch and your privacy laws aren't helping you.

Writer Victor Wallis presents a socialist framework for ecological revolution - as global capitalism pushes the planet and everyone on it closer to crisis, only a transformative, working-class lead re-ordering of political and economic structures can deliver a safe, secure and healthy world for the future.

Victor is author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism" from Political Animal Press. https://politicalanimalmagazine.com/product/red-green-revolution-the-politics-and-technology-of-ecosocialism/

Saving the planet is a working class job: The case for ecosocialist transformation.

Biophysical economist Paavo Järvensivu and philosopher Tere Vadén explore the near future economics of a world in capital and climate crisis - as an era of cheap energy comes to a close, and the consequences of burning carbon threatens human well-being, the state must lead a transition towards a new energy infrastructure.

Paavo and Tere are co-authors of the report Economic Transition Governance, a background document to a 2019 UN Global Sustainable Development Report.

Understanding the energy economy of the world we have, and the world we need.

We're joined by The LitCrit Guy (@thelitcritguy) to talk about Oli Mould's Against Creativity, a book that argues that capitalism has co-opted art, so of course we talk about whether Slimer is a comrade, the lingering trauma of the tapeworm-man episode of the X-files and cereal cafes.

Music by Body Void: https://bodyvoid.bandcamp.com

And Bliss Signal: https://blisssignal.bandcamp.com/

Learning to live on a dying planet.

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