{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/624baef6b2bc500012055094?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Half-Earth Socialism: Planning Utopia with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61da34ca3a030a0012a60626/1641827536655-67c6b4be5f9e1edb60e8906870bbf84b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Environmental historian Troy Vettese and environmental engineer Drew Pendergrass worked together on the new book <em>Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future From Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. </em>I spoke with both of them about the problems with Marx's nature philosophy, why we need widespread veganism and energy quotas, and how central economic planning can help us chart a way through climate catastrophe.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.versobooks.com/books/3818-half-earth-socialism\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the book</a></p><p><a href=\"https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii111/articles/troy-vettese-to-freeze-the-thames\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read the essay that inspired the book</a></p><p><a href=\"https://inthesetimes.com/article/half-earth-our-planets-fight-for-life-e-o-wilson-book-review\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read my review of E.O. Wilson's book <em>Half-Earth</em></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read a <em>Smithsonian</em> overview of the half-Earth concept</a></p><p><a href=\"https://bostonreview.net/articles/dayton-martindale-nature-defends-itself/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read my essay \"Nature Defends Itself\" on the nature/culture binary</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://apple6.aweb.page/p/de4ee963-cd8d-4ced-9975-e13965236a7d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for my weekly newsletter</a>&nbsp;to get each new episode in your inbox, as well as to attend one meeting of the Storytelling Animals Book Club as a free trial. Our next two meetings are 4/26 discussing Rachel Carson's&nbsp;<em>Silent Spring</em>&nbsp;and 5/31 on N.K. Jemisin's&nbsp;<em>The Fifth Season</em>, recently chosen by&nbsp;<em>Esquire</em>&nbsp;as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39385874/best-fantasy-books/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">best fantasy novel of all time.</a></p><p><br></p><p>To help keep this podcast going, get early access to episode, and continue being part of the book club moving forward, please&nbsp;<a href=\"https://patreon.com/storytellingpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">support this podcast on Patreon.</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Dayton Martindale"}