This Week I've interview Monsanto's Vance Crowe,

Ecomodernism - Around the 5:00 minutes mark The hippies may have lost but environment still needs protecting. Vance argues that www.ecomodernism.org may be the way forward

Meme Theory - Around the 26:00 minutes mark Vances shares with me his rarest pepe, unfortunately this had to be cut out but what left is a pretty nice conversation on the idea of units of cultural transmission.

Agriculture - Around the 55:00 minutes mark Humanities greatest mistake? Vance does not think so. We chat the future of food and one of my favourite books 'Guns, Germs and Steel'.

Find Vance at @VanceCrowe

and Get me on @ThatBuckGuy

Some suggested reading from Vance

Occasionally I post Youtube videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCigB7W5bX_gCinJxev9WB8w Ecomodernism: The Ecomodernist Manifesto: http://www.ecomodernism.org/ Some interesting Ecomodernists: Stewart Brand https://twitter.com/stewartbrand Mike Shellenberger https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD Julie Kelly https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2 Memes: @Plinz talking about tribes and how we know what is true (starts in the middle of the talk) https://youtu.be/WRdJCFEqFTU?t=33m33s Agriculture Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552 Concepts of animal domestication and disease spreading (CGP Grey Videos) Zebras vs Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo Ameripox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk Interesting Agriculture Twitter people: The Farmer's Life (cool drone videos of farms) https://twitter.com/thefarmerslife WyoWeeds (hard talkin no-nonesense weed scientist) https://twitter.com/WyoWeeds