Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-03-06
Joe Rogan & David Wallace-Wells: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1259
#1259 - David Wallace-Wells
David Wallace-Wells is Deputy editor and climate columnist for New York magazine. His book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" is available now.
David Wallace-Wells discussed Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton, and The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich. Joe Rogan discussed Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hyperobjects
Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton is a philosophical exploration of massive ecological phenomena, such as climate change and radiation, that are so vast and enduring that humans can only perceive them in fragments rather than in their totality.
Discussed“there's this he's actually an english professor named timothy Morton who wrote a book about climate he calls it a hyper object which is like it's a it's a phenomenon that's so big that we can't actually hold it in our heads at once”
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Dark Ecology
Discussed“there's this he's actually an english professor named timothy Morton who wrote a book about climate he calls it a hyper object which is like it's a it's a phenomenon that's so big that we can't actually hold it in our heads at once”
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The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb by Paul R.
Discussed“there was um there was a really famous book in the middle of the 20th century called the Population Bomb”
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is a landmark 1962 environmental science book that exposed the devastating ecological consequences of synthetic pesticides like DDT, playing a pivotal role in launching the modern environmental movement.
Discussed“Rachel Carson you know wrote Silent Spring about pesticides it was called hyperbolic alarmist”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I mean like Lord of the Rings end of the world”
“tell people with the name of your book one more time please it's called the uninhabitable earth the subtitle is life after warm”
“Tell people with the name of your book one more time please it's called the uninhabitable earth the subtitle is life after warm”