2024-04-07
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
Im head of programming Connor Boyle on the podcast today were joined by Koheisaito, the japanese philosopher whose ideas have become highly influential in the conversation surrounding how to better use economics to combat the looming climate crisis.
Hes here to discuss his best selling book, Slow down.
In conversation with Kohei for this episode is Adam McCauley, the writer and researcher whose work focuses on the social, cultural, and political impacts of emerging technologies.
Hes currently writing a book on artificial intelligence, military and political decision making, and the future of conflict.
He also writes a regular newsletter, the view from here.
Lets join Adam McCauley in conversation with Kohei Saito now.
Kohei Saito is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and the youngest ever winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for scholarship in the marxist tradition.
His book slow how Degrowth Communism can save the earth is an international bestseller and is credited with inspiring resurgent interest in climate economics, both in Japan but also around the world.
If there is a brief summary stitching together the many strands of research that inform this book, perhaps it's best rendered as metaphor.
We have ridden the machines of capitalism into a darkening valley, scorching the fertile ground behind us.
And amid this deepening dusk, we realized we can't drive these same machines out the other side.