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?
In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President
That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher
We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF
This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor
Show Notes & Links to Learn More
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
04:44 – Climate Change
05:09 – Auroville
06:23 – India vs US energy per capita
06:41 – 44% of the people in India work in agriculture vs 2% in the U.S.
06:47 – India imports a lot of oil, but exports a lot of food
06:54 – Andrew Millison + TGS Episode
07:07 – India permaculture projects
07:45 – Non-violence movements, Gandhi
08:16 – United States fossil fuel consumption
08:51 – Stray dogs in India
10:02 – Indian birds
