Harvey Wasserman on How We'll Survive and Win

[davidswanson]

Run time: 93:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6509ij1PLM   Posted on YouTube: May 11, 2011 By YouTube Member: davidcnswanson Views on YouTube: 5   Posted on DU: May 11, 2011 By DU Member: davidswanson Views on DU: 1486

 

[bananas]

1. Kurt Vonnegut: "Solartopia has made me what I previously thought impossible, optimistic…"

http://www.solarfeeds.com/dasolar/8677-from-ecotopia-to-solartopia

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The Ecotopian vision has been updated in a 2007 book called “Solartopia,” which writer Harvey Wasserman calls an “achievable vision of a sustainable future”. This is a Utopian vision I can believe in, one that will actually manifest itself – and sooner than most visionaries have dreamed.

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This is a book about hope that is grounded in a technological reality, and a belief that a new solar economy can evolve quickly like the powerhouse economies that emerged from the devastation of WWII. I’m not a great optimist myself, so I was pleased to see that before he died the unreconstructed pessimist Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “Solartopia has made me what I previously thought impossible, optimistic…” Me too.

[bananas]

2. Do you have an mp3 version? nt

[freshwest]

3. Hi bananas. You can download an mp3 from the youtube video. If that what you mean?

[bananas]

5. It lets you download mp4 or flv, but not mp3 for mp3 players

It's a long interview, an hour and a half, more convenient to listen to it on an mp3 player.
I'm about half way through it though.
Very interesting interview.

[freshwest]

6. What add-on are you using? I downloaded the video for later listening with my browser add-on.

But went to bed instead of using the mp3 grabber which is much slower than the video, for some reason. It had over half of it last night and I didn't want to stay up and wait so I canceled. The new Firefox add-on gives the option of mp4, flv, mp3 and a few more. Good luck next time.

[davidswanson]

7. yes

http://warisacrime.org/downloads/wassermantheoptimist.mp3

[freshwest]

9. Thanks, that was much faster than my add-on.

[bananas]

11. Thank you. nt

[freshwest]

4. Thanks davidswanson for posting this.

[spooked911]

8. what is this about? who is the "we"? Humanity?

[spooked911]

10. I listened to about half-- good discussion. Interesting that Wasserman thinks Obama will lose

in 2012-- due to Ohio in particular, fixed voting machines, Rethug gov

His analysis makes some sense. He think Gingrich will get the nomination.

I personally can't see Gingrich beating Obama though; can't see any rethugs out there now beating him

[spooked911]

12. Long, but a GREAT discussion-- fascinating info and I love Wasserman's outlook

thanks for posting