We’re taking on the third part of Naomi Klein’s book ’This Changes Everything’. The discussion revolves around the importance of place and the transient nature of the fossil fuel industry that tends to totally devastate the local cultures where it mines its resources. We also talk about ‘Blockadia’ which is Klein’s term for the movement that tries to stop mining all over the world. The discussion also includes a good dose circular economy and how fossil resources gives us the freedom to not work, whereas renewable energy requires that more people are working in the energy sector, whether that’s good or bad…

Correction: The value of the Ecuadorian oil is $7 billion, not $12 billion as Mats mentions towards the end of the discussion (p. 408 in the book), still a large stranded asset!