In this milestone episode, your hosts find a strange tree in their backyard. So they begin digging to see where its roots lie. But as the hole gets deeper, the roots show no sign of thinning or ending; they curl and twist and entangle and as the ground caves in, an subterranean wonder comes to light. As they explore these mysterious tunnels of endless roots and otherworldly sights, they run across Professor Jason W. Moore, an apparent connoisseur of this strange and wonderful web of life. As they walk along, Jason recounts the often-hushed history of our world: the importance of 1492 in capitalism’s history, the constructed divide of Humans/Nature as a way to extend frontiers of capital accumulation, and how these extend into our present.
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