Course creator's socioeconomic ideas gain momentum

SONORA – Chris Martenson started out by earning a Ph.D. in neurotoxicology.
Then he got an MBA in finance and became a vice president first at Pfizer and then at Science Application International Corp.

Yet seven years ago, he sold his five-bedroom waterfront house in Mystic, Conn., and two years later quit his high-paying corporate job. He now lives in a small rental house in rural western Massachusetts, home schools his children, raises a garden, cans food and brews his own beer.

He’s also the increasingly famous creator of The Crash Course, an online video class that has popularized such concepts as peak oil, the limits of economic growth and the possibility that America’s economy and society are beginning a dramatic transformation.

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