A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. Some highlights from the podcast. On cricket: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”On Warne: “He had perfect superficiality and the gift of putting everyone at ease.”On journalism: “Legacy media has become mindlessly negative. If they can’t own it, they destroy it.”On new media: “It’s amazingly empowering to write something and press publish — n...
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A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. Some highlights from the podcast. On cricket: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”On Warne: “He had perfect superficiality and the gift of putting everyone at ease.”On journalism: “Legacy media has become mindlessly negative. If they can’t own it, they destroy it.”On new media: “It’s amazingly empowering to write something and press publish — n...
Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future
Curious Worldview
59 minutes
1 month ago
Vince Beiser | 'The Wire Of Empire' Copper, Power & the Race to Mine the Future
“In the next 25 years, the world will need more copper than in all of human history.” Amendment - I said 3.2 billion kg of copper in opening question, I should have said 320 million kg. In this episode, journalist and author Vince Beiser returns to the podcast to discuss his book Power Metal, a sobering look at the metals that make modern civilization possible — and the extraordinary cost of extracting them. We cover the story of copper — the wire of empire. Beiser reveals why humanity ...
Curious Worldview
A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. Some highlights from the podcast. On cricket: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”On Warne: “He had perfect superficiality and the gift of putting everyone at ease.”On journalism: “Legacy media has become mindlessly negative. If they can’t own it, they destroy it.”On new media: “It’s amazingly empowering to write something and press publish — n...
