Yours Truly on the local FM radio station

22 03 2023

As a result of the local greenies making an appearance on our local Huon FM radio station, the southernmost station in the nation, and talking the usual nonsense you’d expect from energy blind greenies, I offered to set the record straight and they accepted. And they’re igoing to have me back.

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22 03 2023
emigtztrrs (11:07:12) :

I’m glad you are having these conversations. Maybe degrowth by disaster is already locked in(even admitted by one of the main degrowth scholar Giorgos Kallis) but still, as more people starts to wake up to our physical reality, the more we can do to mitigate the impact and save all we can.

Europe is also starting to realize this, they invited professor Jason Hickel to the Dutch parliament and the Degrowthers were awarded a Synergy Grant of 10 million dollars to research a post-growth economy, a little late, but still better late than never.

https://degrowth.org/2022/10/25/rd-receives-ercs-synergy-grant-2/

https://www.commonsnetwork.org/2023/03/14/postgrowth-intergroup-receives-prof-jason-hickel-in-dutch-parliament/

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22 03 2023
Hugh Spencer (12:21:55) :

Hi Mike – sent it to 2VOX-FM (Gollywogalong) (the station I helped get going) – my only negative comment – you didn’t explain why the EROI for oil originally was so fantastic – it’s because those fields (think Pennsylvania) – the oil was under pressure – so they experienced “gushers” – didn’t need pumping. Now, all the pumps jacks you see, are powered by the grid (powered by???). And, as you say, it only gets worse.

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22 03 2023
mikestasse (12:50:25) :

Didn’t have time, as it was he let me talk longer than I was originally allocated, but I’ll be back. He said that he wanted me to go into more detail on specific issues.

I think I will have my own time slot for some time!

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22 03 2023
dirt15 (23:15:34) :

Well said Mike, you covered the main topics really well – such a huge amount of information to cover in one short radio interview! Look forward to the next interview, cheers Di Tod

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23 03 2023
mikestasse (06:40:39) :

Hi Di, great to hear from you again… How’s your new project coming along?

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23 03 2023
dirt15 (20:10:06) :

Hi Mike, all good up here on the top of the Otways – pretty cold, and with 1.8 metres of rain, pretty wet in winter….finally in the new house after 18 months of hair-pulling-out delays and catastrophes. Now planting nut trees – 70 macadamia (who knows if they’ll fruit in this cold?) 200 walnuts (will the chill factor survive global warming – quite possibly not), chestnuts and hazelnuts – all of them growing/bearing up here in some capacity, so fingers crossed. There are some amazing old chestnut trees up here – 35m tall giant knarly old trees with 3-4m diameter trunks, which is encouraging, though pytophthora is ripping through the Otways, causing a lot of dieback and destruction, and some old stands of chestnuts have been destroyed.

You know the saying – plant fruit trees for your children, nut trees for your grandchildren…..of which I now have three and a half! Idiots!
I’m sorry that you’re disappointed in the Huon Valley soil. There is always something one overlooks – for me it’s the wind up here, leaving me madly planting windbreaks; also the hugely high humidity which means everything rusts, though no frosts as we’re so close to the coast.

Take care, Mike, sadly I lost your email address, but I still read all your posts assiduously. Looking forward to more radio interviews!

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