The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About
Recorded April 8 2024
Description
In this week’s Frankly, Nate offers a list of things he is absolutely certain of… or as certain as any human can be. Each of us has grounding beliefs about the reality around us with which we shape our outlook on the world and how we’d like to interact with it. How will planetary and energetic limits interact with human society and culture in the future? Can we recognize truisms about our world without becoming closed off to ways of learning and understanding? What are the fundamental realities of the world around us - and how do they constrain our pathways for the future?
Show Notes
01:01 - Humans are adapted to overconfidence
03:40 - Planetary Boundaries
04:35 - Geoffrey West, Metabolism, Kleiber’s Law
05:42 - Energy Constraints, All time high temperatures in East Africa
06:21 - The limits of renewables
08:54 - Dogs weigh as much as all land mammals
09:33 - Donella Meadows
10:15 - Postmodernism
10:58 - Metamodernism
14:12 - Last universal common ancestor
15:20 - The benefits of a rituals and community
16:10 - Humans are both competitive and cooperative
18:03 - Bioneers, Rex Weyler, Nora Bateson, Warm Data