🏞Third Nature🌌

• Forest Synth - Legit 
• Dirtstep - technically yes, and it sounds exactly like what you would expect 
• Grassgaze - I found one song and it’s strangely ominous 
• Leprechrust - No, which honestly surprises me 
• Flowerviolence - real and sounds like crap 
• Shroom N’ Bass- This is just Hardbass with extra steps 
• Mushroom House - Legit 
• Moss Rock - sounds kind of like older bluegrass listened to from a distant cavern except extremely loud 
• Shiny Rock - Sounds like if you gave a Nirvana cover band a fistful of molly and shrooms 
• Garden Core - Sufjan Stevens on a near-lethal dose of Xanax 
• Cavern Core - Sounds like cookie monster started a garage band in an abandoned aircraft hanger 
• Treewave - The one song I found sounds like getting a severe concussion in the middle of a house track 
• Birdsong - gentle chirping backed by a hurdy-gurdy the size of a volkswagen beetle 
• Whistle Choir - Unable to disambiguate 
• Subterranean Folk - yes if you count underground folk, which absolutely sounds like gnome music 
• Dark Underground - this sounds what executive dysfunction feels like 
• Deep Underground - Hardbass with fewer steps OR chugging an entire bottle of cough syrup and then trying to pull off a jazz drum solo while someone plays a keytar in the background 
• Darkdeep - No 
• Earth Metal - Just because you CAN daisy-chain three distortion pedals together doesn’t mean that you SHOULD. 
• Star Metal - This is actually kind of a complicated subject and beyond the scope of this review 
• Rootbop - no, which is a shame 
• Meadowpunk - found one song about bitching about condos 
• Solarpunk - Noting the above exception, most “-punk” musics are different genres with songs about/atmospherically designed to fit the aesthetic of what is more of a social/visual aesthetic 
•  Moonpunk - See above, but if it existed it would sound like rockabilly 
•  Hill N’ Roll - No 
•  Stump Stomp -No, which is kind of a shame, really 
•  Woodwind - literally a category of instruments

1. vibrator dies mid use
2. roll a shitty joint
3. realize part way through your favourite song you weren't paying attention

Why climate change action requires "degrowth" to make our planet sustainable

Salon spoke with Japanese philosophy professor Kohei Saito about his new book, "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"

Salon

For those who are totally unfamiliar with the works of Karl Marx, can you please explain how one must distinguish between his early works and the later works that you describe as "eco-Marxism"?  Marxism is known for socialism, and socialism is often described as the exploitation of the working class. Capitalism has a tendency to increase technologies and promote innovations because of market competition. But Marx thought that once the workers take over power and kick out the capitalists, they can utilize the development of productive forces for the sake of themselves — more wealth, more well-being. But there is one problem: Sustainability. Because as Marx started to study natural sciences later in the 1850s and 1860s, he came to realize the development of technologies in capitalism actually don't create a condition for emancipation of the working class. Because not only do those technologies control the workers more efficiently, they destabilize the old system of jobs and make more precarious, low skilled jobs. At the same time those technologies exploit from nature more efficiently and create various problems such as exhaustion of the soil, massive deforestation, and the exhaustion of the fuels, and so on. Marx came to realize that this kind of technology undermines material conditions for sustainable development of human beings. And the central concept for Mark at that time in the sixties is metabolism. He thinks that this metabolic interaction between humans and nature is quite essential for any kind of society, but the problem of capitalism is it really transforms and organizes this entire metabolism between humans and nature for the sake of profit-making. Technologies are also used for this purpose. So technologies are not for the purpose of creating better life, free time and sustainable production, but rather it exploits workers and nature at the same time for the sake of more growth, more profit, and so on. My point is basically Marx was quite optimistic when he was young in terms of the development of technologies, but later he came to realize actually technologies have more damaging impact on both humans and nature. So he became more critical of that possibility of solving those problems of poverty and ecological problems using technology. That's how the issue of degrowth and eco-socialist ideas came to be central for his ideas.