Abundance - story & song on CILU Radio
Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson 2025
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.
pg. 4 Scarcity is a choice + 9 + 15 + 20
music: The Dreaming Tree (8:48) by the Dave Matthews Band Mama come quick - the dreaming tree has died
p. 29 Grow 39 - 42, 52 -54 start, stop, revise repeat vs. collaborate, refine, tailor and trust
Build pg 66 - 69 Power costs vs. possibilities 78, 80, 83 construction
music: Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (3:00) by KT Tunstall
86-89, 112 Protest? Nader's Raiders, Sue the Government, Success & Cost
music: Cactus Tree (4:36) Joni Mitchell 1968
176 - 181 Solutions (Inventions) Applied
music: Stand Up (5:01) by Cynthia Erivo
215 - 217 A lens, not a list (values). Government we own vs. oppose
Heather McLeod
Host & Producer
Former CBC journalist and host, recording artist and songwriter, published author and CFP (certified financial planner). I live on the edge of Thunder Bay on the homestead that my husband grew up on. We keep honey bees, laying hens, a market garden and (soon) goats. I moved here from Montreal in 2002 and never plan on leaving. I am tenth generation settler heritage.
