Success for the environmental movement has meant many of its members adopted mainstream values in attempts to sustain the unsustainable. Is sustainability a farce when associated with a way of life that is out of touch with reality? Global droughts, weather catastrophes and heatwaves are demonstrating the rapidly increasing impact of atmospheric greenhouse gases. With decades of inaction on climate change, are we all climate denialists? Could there be an environmental movement that works to exit the collapsing global system?

In Extraenvironmentalist #46 we speak first with Paul Kingsnorth on why he's withdrawn from the mainstream environmental movement and its discussions of sustainability. Paul tells us about developing the Dark Mountain Project to help us tell creative stories that embody the new narrative evolving from the end of industrial society. Then, Michael M'Gonigle [55m] joins us to talk about the importance of creating an exit-environmentalism that allows us to leave a global system which is falling apart. Michael describes why liberal environmentalism is no longer useful in creating laws to protect our environment in the extended version of an interview that originally aired on Radio Ecoshock. Finally, John Michael Greer [1h 56m] takes root in a new recurring and irregular segment to talk about denial and his take on the environmental movement. All that and more as our latest episode proves there aren't limits to growth for XE podcast episode runtimes.

// Music (in order of appearance)

GRiZ - The Future is Now via Fist in the Air

Adele - Rolling in the Deep (Blackbird Blackbird Rework) via Sound Is Style

Jeremy Fisher - Built to Last via Ride the Tempo

Elle Goulding - Hanging On (Syvable & PRFFTT Bootleg) via Earmilk

Marvin Gaye - Real Thing (Pillow Talk Rework) via Ecosalon

Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Monolith Remix) via The Music Ninja

// Extended Clips (in order of appearance)

[1st Break] - 28'27"

Shaking Spain - Expect Violence

Marc Faber - Markets to Crash in 12 Months

Euro-Doomsday Scenario

How close are we to a new great depression

[2nd Break] - 83'27"

Record Drought Has Cascading Consequences

Heat Wave

Americans Scramble to Safety

George Will: "It's Just Summer, Get Over It"

[End]

Alan Watts - Man in Nature

// Production Credits

Production Assistance by Kevin via Sustainable Guidance Youtube Channel

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