Finite Climate Change & Environment

Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 2)

Double issue means double chapters, and double chapters are way too long to record in one sitting. Chris and Charley sit down again to finish Chapter 1. ____________________________________ Issue 2: Green energy & electric cars Intro: Why does green energy produce so much toxic waste? Chapter 1: Comparing wind, solar, nuclear & geothermal energy; mining waste Chapter 2: The human and environmental costs of green energy mining Chapter 3: Phasing out cars (even electric ones) to save the planet Chapter 4: Your life would be way better if we phased out cars Bonus 1: Planet-saving green energy technology we foolishly never developed Bonus 2: How did Congo (the world’s leading cobalt producer) get the way it is? Bonus 3: The Congo Wars (1996-2003) and its millions of victims _____ Issue 2 is available in written [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2/] and podcast [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2-podcast/] format __________

Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 1)

Chris and Charlie try to figure out what energy source is best to replace fossil fuels, but things go off the rails immediately…and they wind up with an extended discussion about mining waste? ____________________________________ Issue 2: Green energy & electric cars Intro: Why does green energy produce so much toxic waste? Chapter 1: Comparing wind, solar, nuclear & geothermal energy; mining waste Chapter 2: The human and environmental costs of green energy mining Chapter 3: Phasing out cars (even electric ones) to save the planet Chapter 4: Your life would be way better if we phased out cars Bonus 1: Planet-saving green energy technology we foolishly never developed Bonus 2: How did Congo (the world’s leading cobalt producer) get the way it is? Bonus 3: The Congo Wars (1996-2003) and its millions of victims _____ Issue 2 is available in written [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2/] and podcast [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2-podcast/] format __________

Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)

After finding that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy, Chris lays out green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet from climate change, it will be necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet with mining waste. Two tables are referenced in this episode: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/atoms-isotopes-toxic.png] [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ancient-history-thought-experiment.png] ____________________________________ Issue 2: Green energy & electric cars Intro: Why does green energy produce so much toxic waste? Chapter 1: Comparing wind, solar, nuclear & geothermal energy; mining waste Chapter 2: The human and environmental costs of green energy mining Chapter 3: Phasing out cars (even electric ones) to save the planet Chapter 4: Your life would be way better if we phased out cars Bonus 1: Planet-saving green energy technology we foolishly never developed Bonus 2: How did Congo (the world’s leading cobalt producer) get the way it is? Bonus 3: The Congo Wars (1996-2003) and its millions of victims _____ Issue 2 is available in written [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2/] and podcast [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-2-podcast/] format __________

Finite Launch Party

If you’re in the Milwaukee area on Monday, October 13, don’t miss the Finite launch party! Grab some free snacks, meet the editors and cohosts, peep a sneak preview of future issues, and get a discounted subscription! Anyone who attends will get a free set of bonus chapters! If you have never been to the Vulture Space community bike workshop, it is worth the trip just to look around. You can support the Vulture Space mission of protecting the planet by helping ordinary Milwaukeeans repair and maintain their bikes: https://www.vulturespace.org/donate [https://www.vulturespace.org/donate] See you there! Monday, October 13, 2025 6-8pm 651 N Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee

Iss1/Ch4 If you liked the 2017 worldwide refugee crisis, you’ll love the complete desertification of the Sahel

Chris and Charley conclude Issue 1 by discussing how mainstream economists and climate scientists can look at the same data and reach wildly different conclusions. How can mainstream economists predict small dents to the economy when climate scientists see existential threats to civilization itself? Perhaps Sahelian desertification and climate change can only be solved if we stop listening to mainstream economists. ____________________________________ Issue 1: Climate Change and Freshwater Intro: Why did Lake Chad collapse and why are Cameroonians so thirsty? Chapter 1: Desertification of the Sahel and Cameroon’s water infrastructure Chapter 2: Cameroon gains “independence” from France Chapter 3: Poverty, structural adjustments, and dictators Chapter 4: The US New Deal’s Soil Conservation Service is a proven model Bonus 1: More on Cameroon’s independence movement Bonus 2: How did Ahidjo make himself a dictator? Bonus 3: How did Biya take control from Ahidjo? _____ Issue 1 is available in written [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-1/] and podcast [https://www.finitemag.org/issues/issue-1-podcast/] format __________ IMAGES FROM CHAPTER 4 How mainstream economists and climate scientists estimate our climate risk: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/economists-vs-climate-scientists.png] Slide from William Nordhaus’s Nobel Prize for Economics lecture summarizing his work calculating that 4 degrees is “optimal” warming: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/nordhaus-nobel-lecture-1024x576.png] Exponential increase in fossil fuel consumption: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fossil-fuel-exponential.png] President Reagan and Ahmaduo Ahidjo: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ahidjo-reagan.jpg] President Obama and Paul Biya: [https://www.finitemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/biya-obama-magazine.jpg]