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podcast friday
Jun. 9th, 2023 05:01 pmIt was difficult for me to pick an episode for this week because Behind the Bastards did a hilarious episode about the Elon Musk lawsuit and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff did an episode about post-Spanish Civil War resistance to Franco, which included the first Spanish astronaut, and both are worth a listen. I rewound the Spanish Space Program segment on the latter just to listen to it again and may listen to the Musk one again because both had me cackling like a lunatic.
But instead as we all choke on the ashes of incinerated Quebec and Ontario forests, I have to instead highlight It Could Happen Here's episode today, Wildfire Smoke: A Self-Defense Guide. It features Robert and Margaret discussing why you shouldn't breathe the air when it's orange and how you can better protect yourself, your home, and your community in the face of rapacious billionaires who will burn down the entire planet so that they can buy additional yachts. It's very useful and practical and made me upset, but upset is the first step to doing something about a threat.
The ending is particularly good, in that it discusses the prepper mindset in general and how to normalize preparedness and community care. I really don't like that I need to know this stuff and I am generally useless at renovations and building things like Corsi-Rosenthal boxes but it could save a life, and so I'm spreading the word.
Obviously the best thing to do is to effect the kind of change where 40 guys don't get to decide whether the rest of us have breathable air or not. But obviously you don't get to that future if you choke to death on smog, so do yourself a favour and listen to this.
P.S. Doug Ford cut 67% ($142.2 million) from the Ontario Emergency Forest Firefighting budget in 2019 in case you're wondering why the sky is orange.
But instead as we all choke on the ashes of incinerated Quebec and Ontario forests, I have to instead highlight It Could Happen Here's episode today, Wildfire Smoke: A Self-Defense Guide. It features Robert and Margaret discussing why you shouldn't breathe the air when it's orange and how you can better protect yourself, your home, and your community in the face of rapacious billionaires who will burn down the entire planet so that they can buy additional yachts. It's very useful and practical and made me upset, but upset is the first step to doing something about a threat.
The ending is particularly good, in that it discusses the prepper mindset in general and how to normalize preparedness and community care. I really don't like that I need to know this stuff and I am generally useless at renovations and building things like Corsi-Rosenthal boxes but it could save a life, and so I'm spreading the word.
Obviously the best thing to do is to effect the kind of change where 40 guys don't get to decide whether the rest of us have breathable air or not. But obviously you don't get to that future if you choke to death on smog, so do yourself a favour and listen to this.
P.S. Doug Ford cut 67% ($142.2 million) from the Ontario Emergency Forest Firefighting budget in 2019 in case you're wondering why the sky is orange.
