Reflections From India

Feb 16

Recorded February 13 2024

Description

Returning from his first visit to India for a six-week limbic reset, Nate shares insights on both his personal experiences in the country and how its history, culture, and role as a rising economic power intermingle to create a unique position into the coming decades. Despite India’s history of avoiding globalization and industrialization, westernized patterns are emerging, including an expanding reliance on fossil fuels - and resultant convenience and consumption. Yet, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, significant labor devoted to agriculture, and increasing vulnerability to global heating, India will face unique challenges and opportunities within the human predicament. As many Indians remain unaware of their country’s growing role in global heating and the effects it will bring, what alternative opportunities for permaculture and other restorative projects remain within the Indian subcontinent? How could India’s abundant wealth of social capital and unique history/ethos help its people resist the encroachment of the Superorganism and play a larger role in the global Great Simplification?

Show Notes

00:00 - India population, climate, culture

01:54 - US population size and density, India population density

02:06 - India primary energy consumption by energy source

02:18 - India to double coal production by 2030

02:28 - Superorganism

02:44 - India was once the largest economy in the world

02:50 - British colonialism in India

03:02 - India economic growth in recent years, westernization

03:30 - Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson + TGS Episode

03:35 - Wet Bulb Temperatures

04:04 - Climate migrations