Episode Archive

58 episodes of Post-Growth Australia Podcast since the first episode, which aired on July 2nd, 2020.

  • Mark Diesendorf and the Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

    October 3rd, 2023  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 16 mins
    mark diesendorf, modern monetary theory, path to a sustainable civilisation, planned degrowth, state capture

    We are certainly living in precarious times. We have transgressed six out of nine planetary boundaries (with more to come). The gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ is beginning to look less like a gap and more like a chasm. The threat of wide-scale war looms large. How do we get ourselves out of this mess before Mad Max becomes a documentary? Luckily for us, Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor have co-authored a new book “The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change.” Not only does this book unpack several of the main existential challenges facing humanity, it details many proactive solutions that we can all undertake to create a better future. In this episode of Post-Growth Australia Podcast, Mark Diesendorf kindly steps into the microphone to summarise the key arguments detailed in “The Path of a Sustainable Civilisation.”

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    Planning for a Just Collapse with Kate Booth

    September 1st, 2023  |  Season 5  |  55 mins 29 secs
    degrowth, insurgent planning, just collapse, sustainable population, town planning rebellion

    It is not every day that urban planning and societal collapse are discussed in the same conversation. But for Kate Booth – activist academic and Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, both are critical and interlinked issues. In this very educational episode, Kate talks us through the Insurgent Planning movement as well as the Just Collapse movement. At a time when Australia’s Federal Government is scrambling to build 1.2 million new homes while the recent climate data suggests that an ecological collapse is imminent, these are difficult but necessary conversations that we need to be having.

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    Let’s Get Crazy with Rob Dietz from Crazy Town Podcast

    August 15th, 2023  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 5 mins
    crazy town podcast, post carbon institute, post-growth, resilience.org, rob dietz, shock octopus

    Welcome to the season five premiere of Post-Growth Australia Podcast. What better way to launch our new season than with Rob Dietz, co-host of Crazy Town Podcast, perhaps the standard bearer of degrowth themed podcasts.