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Daniel Schmachtenberger “Bend Not Break Part 1: Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification #05 52,903

• the central environmental story of the world today's climate change and uh climate change from
• world today's climate change and uh climate change from you know anthropogenic greenhouse gases
• electric cars in order to save climate change it wouldn't really it wouldn't reduce
• is one tiny little thing which is all of climate change and it's literally a tiny little thing and micro plastics going

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• long-term issues like climate change or resource depletion
• we are emotionally blind to long-term issues like climate change or energy depletion
• there is an increasingly popular theme in climate change media called net zero emissions the idea that by 2050
• state climate change should be our main focus from a systems perspective a more
• are going to be bad for the environment climate change poses huge risks for humanity in our planet
• admit that growth is over and the only way to solve climate change is using considerable less energy and resources
• how greenpeace started climate change wasn't on people's radar even though scientists were starting to
• trajectory the severity of climate change etc we change these distributions on the fly
• agendas than any action on climate change or the environment
• about small things let alone big issues like climate change energy depletion growth

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Bend not Break: Maximum Power & Hyper Agents | The Great Simplification #20 30,134

• i hadn't thought about quite like this before he's said look climate change is not going to hit the world
• a lot of people when they think about climate change think about like systemic venusification of the planet but well
• personally climate change is the largest risk uh for our species and civilization by
• on very large scales it's really hard which is why climate change is still a thing and which is why we have not got
• century then by us taxing carbon we're still not preventing climate change we're just agreeing to
• have because climate change seems like such a huge deal and and

William E. Rees: "The Fundamental Issue - Overshoot" | The Great Simplification #53 24,387

• but now circa 2022 uh 19 terawatt metabolism climate change uh species loss everyone's becoming aware of these
• there are hundreds of things happening but we fixate on climate change the focus gets shift a little bit when
• but then it's all about the pandemic we forget about climate change then there's the war in the ukraine and
• we talk about that for a while and now we're back to climate change and nobody bothers to connect all of those dots
• complete strangers in other places in fact if you think of climate change most people in our country or the united
• from a discounted standpoint the damages from climate change are largely in the future the big damages and so if you
• have this podcast and lots of people are worried about climate change etc is our concern for the environment
• possibly be wrong nate if you think of the climate change is it the nobody disagrees even economists realize now
• disagrees even economists realize now we're deeply into climate change but it's interesting how they dismiss it for
• it's well known for saying well you know climate change is likely mostly to affect agriculture and since agriculture
• years of growth and we've obliterated the effects of climate change well that obviously is an extra what i call a
• conceivable that i would see the obvious evidence of the climate change that was ahead a year ago in this region we saw

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis” | The Great Simplification #42 22,869

• it was one sector of the economy, it was one product. when we're talking about climate change, as you focus on, there are no industries that don't need energy.
• and that leads to cascading catastrophes of lots of types. climate change leads to extreme weather events, leads to human migration, leads to resource wars, leads to large scale wars, leads to breakdown of infrastructure and supply chain,
• one first or in this one first? when we talk about planetary boundaries with climate change, before we hit the planetary boundary of runaway climate change from albedo effect or whatever it is that would mean we
• when we talk about planetary boundaries with climate change, before we hit the planetary boundary of runaway climate change from albedo effect or whatever it is that would mean we can never fix it, or before we hit the point of venus-ification, well before then, we will

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose” | The Great Simplification #31 22,610

• and there's waste that is not included in our economic prices. and so when you talk about climate change or overpopulation or some of these issues, those are all downstream.
• that are certain, an absolute... climate change is going to kill us all or climate change is a hoax. those things get more views, more attention seconds to use your language, than something
• but those are all the one-marshmallow reward circuits of like, wait, did i actually read all of the literature on climate change in-depth or on vaccines or on whatever it is and really come to sense about this on my own or did i get a sense of certainty really prematurely
• why there is so much pushback from people who are single issue, focused on social justice or inequality or climate change or bitcoin or politics, and yet, like you just said, you need to look at how all this stuff fits together in order to see the right map of
• daniel schmachtenberger: the answer is begged in the question itself. let's say that someone starts to understand climate change and understand the significance of that issue portends to all life.
• i mean, we need orders of magnitude more humans from that cognitive development space that are able to see that that's more important than, hey, there's climate change, there's energy depletion, there's nuclear, the ai, all that stuff.
• so, some of the philosophic inquiry that we go into is not that someone now knows, okay, now i know how to fix climate change or the american democracy or facebook. it's, now, i'm perceiving the world with more nuance and more complexity and from a different

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5" | The Great Simplification #50 17,051

• you're obviously there investing in a long-term climate change resilience strategy
• they're doing isn't at the scale of how does it solve all of climate change or ai risk or nuclear risk
• we're saying you can't think about climate change and the economy and u.s china power dynamics separately they
• eastern europe and we're going backwards on climate change in terms of fossil fuels and so you have to think about all
• that there's so much importance on the climate change movement there's so many brilliant scientists associated with so
• examples of physical externalities obviously co2 and climate change is a physical externality no one is intending
• physical externality no one is intending to cause climate change they just want to
• um get people to really care about the climate change the mask wearing the vaccine the whatever the thing is
• pumping the thing right you get this like the climate change albedo effect there's a positive runaway thing that

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• of you want to know what this means for climate change or your career but what i'm trying to do today is describe the

Tristan Harris: “Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor” | The Great Simplification #16 14,370

• able to solve the longer term issues of climate change resource depletion financial overshoot
• discussed energy depletion finance climate change the interconnected nature of everything
• documentary made by the previous climate change uh films uh film team uh chasing ice chasing coral about
• you know the financial system and that causes climate change you know much of our stock market is propped up by the
• the digital fallout or we used to call the climate change of culture because much like we have an extractive energy
• that happen with fossil fuels uh pollution climate change etc and yet we're not strong enough to stop using
• so just like to your point about the climate change thing and the oil companies i'd say the analogy is closer
• environmental movement ended up adopting the phrase climate change which is one of the least effective phrases you could
• instead of a complaint about the tax system or climate change turning into a post on facebook that generates an
• alerting people to the risks from social media or from climate change or resource depletion etc

Steve Keen: "Mythonomics” | The Great Simplification #30 12,436

• economic theory and castigating the complete neglect of that in mainstream economics, which has led to total understatement of the dangers of climate change. nate hagens: excellent.
• to our standard cobb–douglas, general equilibrium models, as well as how neoclassical economics treats climate change and environmental costs. what are the core flaws in macroeconomic, or any economic theories, with respect to
• steve keen: i must admit that the work that i've read on climate change by neoclassical economists is the worst work i've read in 50 years of reading economics.
• but in 1991, he started providing his own variations on how he modeled the economic impact of climate change. in that he said it's very hard to find any impact of climate change on the vast majority
• impact of climate change. in that he said it's very hard to find any impact of climate change on the vast majority of the economy over the next 50 to 75 years, manufacturing services, et cetera, et cetera.
• of the economy over the next 50 to 75 years, manufacturing services, et cetera, et cetera. very hard to find any potential impact of climate change on those sectors. he broke the american economy into three divisions, severely exposed to climate change, peripherally
• very hard to find any potential impact of climate change on those sectors. he broke the american economy into three divisions, severely exposed to climate change, peripherally exposed to climate change, not exposed to climate change.
• he broke the american economy into three divisions, severely exposed to climate change, peripherally exposed to climate change, not exposed to climate change. he included 87% of industry in the not exposed to climate change, all of manufacturing, all
• exposed to climate change, not exposed to climate change. he included 87% of industry in the not exposed to climate change, all of manufacturing, all of wholesale and retail services, all of the finance sector, except part of real estate
• on the coastal fringe, of course. even mining he said would be unaffected by climate change. steve keen: now, the only things that government, finance,
• services, manufacturing have in common is a roof. fundamentally, he's saying a roof will protect you from climate change. now that is a child's level understanding of what climate change actually amounts to.
• fundamentally, he's saying a roof will protect you from climate change. now that is a child's level understanding of what climate change actually amounts to. children should be spanked for having ideas like that.
• his empirical conclusion that three degrees of global warming would reduce global gdp by 0.25% compared to what it would be in the complete absence of climate change. then he threw in a few fudge factors, which he said were just a guess.
• he said at most 2% fall in gdp from a three degree increase in temperature, compared to what it would've been in the complete absence of climate change. that became the ballpark that most of them make their estimates at.
• they are completely ignoring the role of energy, trivializing the dangers, and saying only if you're exposed to the weather are exposed to climate change. nate hagens: well, that's kind of like saying that the
• five years, because when i realized just how badly neoclassical economists had underestimated the dangers of climate change, it was one of those, "you bastards, you're going to kill us all," realizations.
• this desk, i read a paper for richard tol in which you said that one of the ways they develop their numbers for estimating impact of global climate change is to imagine that the relationship between temperature and gdp that applies across space will apply through