{"podcast":{"title":"Crazy Town","slug":"crazy-town-1164162","podcast_index_feed_id":1164162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/crazy-town/","website_url":"https://www.resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/845024c0-9628-4c20-8cf7-f9edbab29e82/5wd9dbkdqdiv608mpluosrwkpl4j.jpg","author":"Post Carbon Institute","episode_count":173,"summary":"With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone us…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:23:28.514961+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162"},"episode":{"title":"Crazy Town Classics - Maximum Power and Scarcity, or... the Story of the Birdbrained Backhoe on the Beach","slug":"crazy-town-classics-maximum-power-and-scarcity-or-the-story-of-the-birdbrained-backhoe-on-the-beach","published_at":"2025-09-24T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/crazy-town-classics-maximum-power-and-scarcity-or-the-story-of-the-birdbrained-backhoe-on-the-beach","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-17/maximum-power-and-scarcity-or-the-story-of-the-birdbrained-backhoe-on-the-beach-episode-46-of-crazy-town/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/47ebdda7-8dc9-41b7-a8af-5ef2994e5980.mp3","summary":"The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organize to increase power whenever constraints allow. Given the way humans adhere to this principle, especially by overexploiting fossil fuels, we often do behave like supervillains, wielding power in wildly irresponsible ways and triggering climate change, biodiversity loss, and other aspects of our sustainability pr...","meta_description":"The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3568,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/crazy-town-classics-maximum-power-and-scarcity-or-the-story-of-the-birdbrained-backhoe-on-the-beach/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/crazy-town-classics-maximum-power-and-scarcity-or-the-story-of-the-birdbrained-backhoe-on-the-beach.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}