406: Suspect Models and the Photosynthetic Ceiling




C-Realm Podcast show

Summary: KMO welcomes Frank Aragona of the Agroinnovations podcast back to the C-Realm to discuss a Guardian article by Nafeez Ahmed that is based on a NASA-funded report that details how growing inequality might bring about the fall of our globalized industrial civilization. They also discuss an article in The Economist which offers competing explanations for why global warming seems to have slowed. Frank details the land grabs in Africa by which powerful nations attempting to feed their populations by securing the use of agricultural land in impoverished African nations. It's all a result, Frank explains, of the human appropriation of net primary production. For more on that topic, read Frank's blog post on The Photosynthetic Ceiling.   Music by Not Waving But Drowning. Check out their Facebook page.