Unsustainable - Conversations to Keep you Going

Sean Cross

So many things we do are unsustainable, be that to our personal lives, our businesses or the planet. This podcast is about opening up these things. Talking them out with others but also exploring how my personal experiences of starting a business, finding out the secret to real happiness, coming to terms with money and the pace of the modern world and learning to be a better occupant of this planet.

Episodes

This one goes off on a tangent. I was thinking about a discussion more like the one in this video from OCC: https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU

Feb 3, 2022

15 min

EP28 Why are we so poor?

Generations might not be Real, but they are pretty real and we are the poorest, sort of. Phil Edwards (the Vox guy) talks about generations and the fourth turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AeQgUZyOk Van Neistat talks about generations and the fourth turning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVyfiP0cLk

Feb 2, 2022

15 min

EP27 Ideologies of advice

I wanted to ask about the idea of bad people giving good advice

Feb 1, 2022

17 min

EP26 Social constructs IRL

A week is a week right? It isn't a social construct, or is it. ohhh spooky. Philosophy Tube: https://youtu.be/koud7hgGyQ8

Jan 31, 2022

13 min

EP25 The loneliness epidemic

I made a video about feeling acutely lonely (Link here) but I didn't realise that I was becoming chronically lonely. I wonder how many people that has happened to.

Jan 30, 2022

16 min

EP24 Check yourself Shapiro

My thoughts on Ben Shapiro's questions about why you cannot identify as a different age or why you know the sex of your dog.

Jan 29, 2022

11 min

EP23 A very British beaver

In this episode I talk about rewinding the countryside and what that really means as well as the reintroduction of the British beaver to help with the ecology of the English wilderness. Rewilding https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-59944245 Re-beavering https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-59922072

Jan 28, 2022

20 min

EP22 Wholesome fraudulent banana saves world

The story of Enset, the Ethiopian crop set to save us all and the plight of plastics in the Isle of Man. Banana saviour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60074407 No plastic for you, IOM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-60082938

Jan 27, 2022

17 min

EP21

There's a commonly stated statistic that I can't find the provenance of which states that the average American home has in it 300,000 items, where as the average European home reportedly has only 10,000 on average. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50133/are-there-300-000-items-in-the-average-american-household-and-10-000-items-in-t

Jan 26, 2022

14 min

EP20 Processed food is evil

This little video from Russel Brand got me thinking about the problems with the conversation around processed food and chemicals

Jan 25, 2022

23 min