Thursday morning on Central Vermont Community Radio: A futurist promotes socialism—with a technological flourish—as a way to avoid or mitigate a host of crises. Plus dogs and cats!

9:00 - 10:00 am
Brett King's latest book is The Rise of Technosocialism: How inequality, AI, and climate will usher in a new world. King and his co-author, Richard Petty, argue that humans will soon have the technology to extend our lifespan, to make humanity a multi-planetary species, and to provide for the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet at a fraction of the costs of government today. And the most desirable future involves embracing these possibilities and making sure they're available to everyone--which requires a lot of planning by governments. That's what they call technosocialism. I'll ask him why John Maynard Keynes was wrong a century ago in predicting something similar about the abundance of wealth, and where the energy will come from to power the technological society he envisions.
https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=rise+of+technosocialism

Laurie Garrison of Central Vermont Humane Society will talk about dogs and cats and Covid and more. She'll talk about how Covid changed their operations—and resulted in healthier cats and dogs. And we'll hear about the adorable animals up for adoption right now.
http://centralvermonthumane.org

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

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