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DO 140 - Gregory Landua, Daniel Schmachtenberger, and Jason

Doomer Optimism

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The Future of Civilization

So let's say that we look at a civilization using the Marvin Harris model of a civilization is can be thought of in terms of its infrastructure, social structures and super structure infrastructure. These three things inevitably interaffect each other no one is the most fundamental different schools of thought will argue like Marvin Harris argued actually infrastructure drives the other ones almost exclusively. So if we were to talk about great what you're saying each of those three is nested in ecology yes of course these are the three aspects of kind of human civilization  and exactly we're totally nested in ecology and you could say the ecology is nested in physics if you want. i think well obviously our energy production has to transition in that

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