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Podcast: New Models
Episode: Unlocked | NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq
Description: First released: 31 Aug 2023 | To join New Models, find us via patreon.com/newmodels & newmodels.substack.com
On Sunday (27 Aug 2023), climate activists blocked the road to Burning Man, demanding that the festival—which was founded on principles of decommodification, radical self-reliance, and civic responsibility—ban single-use plastics and private jets. While the protest delayed a relatively small amount of physical traffic for less than an hour, it seized swathes of the online space for days given the action's adjacency to so many memetic themes, incl.: #climate, #collapse, #decarbonization, #privilege, #indigenous (land), #police and ofc the punching bag that is #burningman.
Much of t...