Recorded August 8, 2023
Description
In Part 4 of this Frankly mini-series, Nate concludes the deep dive into the nexus between “just stopping oil” and “just pumping oil” with 10 guideposts which might help us to navigate through the intersection of the Four Horsemen of the 2020s and the shrinking Web of Life….together known as The Great Simplification. From decomplexifying at various scales to a change of consciousness arising from more humans focused on “Inner Tech”, there are many ways we as individuals and as a part of the greater society can manage the push and pull of both environment and economic issues while remaining grounded in the reality of energy, technology, behavior, and the economy.
Show Notes
00:00 – Just Stop Oil !? Part 1 + Part 2 + Part 3
00:10 – Just Stop Oil
01:07 – US borrowing 1.5 trillion dollars in the second have of 2023
03:05 – Ecological Destruction
08:42 – Emergence
10:04 – Jevons Paradox
11:39 – King Midas
12:46 – We have too many financial claims than can be supported by biophysical reality
13:21 – Malthus
13:36 – Paul Ehrlich, TGS Episode, Population Bomb
13:55 – Great Recession
15:10 – Dopamine
18:42 – DJ White, TGS Episode, Earth Trust
19:23 – World Wildlife Fund
19:34 – Shifting baselines
22:50 – Heisenberg Principle
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I am getting so sick of hearing about the problems and all its details without identifying or understanding the main progenitor of them which is the monetary system which is the power to decide what happens or not. We have a privately owned global system monetary issuing money as debt and many of you act like that is not a problem in and of itself. 10 centuries before Christ ancient Greeks recognized that to issue the money debt-free was the most vital prerogative of democracy, that is, you can’t have democracy with privately controlled money because that is a plutocracy. This is what we need to focus on because we cannot stop any of this shit unless we do reclaim that system for the people. We can’t even have a public healthcare system or reel in fossil fuel investments unless we get democratic control of the money system. We know the System is destructive, how much more do we need to know? It must change to one that serves the people and the planet. monetaryalliance.org or https://internationalmoneyreform.org