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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Max Haiven unmasks the global entanglement & human sacrifice that the palm oil industry demands
Description: Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination (https://maxhaiven.com/). In this interview I talk to him about his most recent book Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, a new entry in the Vagabond series of books that Max edits for Pluto Press (https://www.plutobooks.com/pluto-series/vagabonds/). It's a series that tries to create a venue for, as he says, writing that engages with contemporary struggles and that tries to invent new ways of offering the public radical ideas.
He talks about his high tolerance for pessimism, which he realizes...