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?
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
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 wild 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
