PREVIEW 193. The Oil Episode (Fossil Fuels, Abiotic) w/ Jed (Spouter)
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Episode all about oil, maybe the most important and controversial substance in the world and how it came to dominate our history and take over our planet
Abiotic oil theory, climate change, is oil fake, the origin of the term fossil fuels, did Dinosaurs even exist, artificial scarcity, Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia, 'sentient oil', Soviet Neft Dashlari city built on water, wildcatters, creation of new cities, the history of fracking/new carbon extracting technologies, algae resetting the earth w/ oxygen, geological timescales, Clint Murchison Jr./Dallas Cowboys, WWI/WW2/Cold War, Baku, trucks that last forever, Patillo Higgins, The Regime of Disposability, Ahriman, Thomas Gold's hypothesis, L Fletcher Prouty
Jed is a researcher and typewriter refurbisher. For more information on oil go to Jed's Substack
Music by Barrett and Alex Coolwater