Transmission #6 of the Cosmic Anthropology Broadcast System

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Keep Earth Weird, a chat with Quinn Norton [http://quinnnorton.com/] Talking about the unfolding slow apocalypse (aka the early Jackpot Years (aka Welcome to the Churn)), and why - no matter how bad things get here on Earth - it's much easier to terraform our home planet than settle on Mars or Venus. Also the pros of slow travel and technomadism, and the cons of cupcakes. Works mentioned: * Robert Jackal's Moral Mazes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes] * William Gibson's The Peripheral Further reading: * Shutdown of thermohaline circulation [Shutdown of thermohaline circulation WIKI] Would you like to know more? * Solar Punk, an introduction [http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/11/10/4122309.htm] Samples: * REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY]