{"podcast":{"title":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","slug":"kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","podcast_index_feed_id":160680,"rss_url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://kunstler.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/9/d/dd9d3eb65b730270/KC-iTunes.jpg","author":"James Howard Kunstler","episode_count":452,"summary":"James Howard Kunstler, author of \"The Geography of Nowhere\" and \"The Long Emergency,\" takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T20:20:09.235437+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680"},"episode":{"title":"KunstlerCast 436 — Elizabeth Nickson on the Fall of Canada and Other Sorrows of Western Civ","slug":"kunstlercast-436-elizabeth-nickson-on-the-fall-of-canada-and-other-sorrows-of-western-civ","published_at":"2026-01-15T18:35:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-436-elizabeth-nickson-on-the-fall-of-canada-and-other-sorrows-of-western-civ","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-436-elizabeth-nickson-on-the-fall-of-canada-and-other-sorrows-of-western-civ","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_436mp3.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Elizabeth Nickson is a distinguished veteran of American and Canadian journalism. She was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine and became European Bureau Chief of LIFE Magazine in its last years of monthly publication. She went on to write for Harper's Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post . Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Tree was an investigation of the CIA MK-ULTRA mind control program. She followed with Eco-Fascists: How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage , a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. Her next is The Green Book , a collection of her essays on the environmental junta, coming in February 2026. She is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy, fcpp.org . Elizabeth Blogs at Welcome to Absurdistan on Substack.","meta_description":"Elizabeth Nickson is a distinguished veteran of American and Canadian journalism. She was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3274,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/episodes/kunstlercast-436-elizabeth-nickson-on-the-fall-of-canada-and-other-sorrows-of-western-civ/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-436-elizabeth-nickson-on-the-fall-of-canada-and-other-sorrows-of-western-civ.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}