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#71: Nate Hagens - Planning for 'The Great Simplification' of Cities

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The Importance of Simplicity in Energy Supply Chains

The world uses 100 billion barrel of oil equivalents of coal oil natural gas every year which works out to around four to five hundred billion human worker equivalents that we have running machines all over the world. The average American household has 40 devices plugged in at all times drawing down little bits of electricity that were created by mostly coal and natural gas. So a simplification would be as prices for energy go up, our entire industrial processes are based on adding thousands of units of fossil energy at an incredibly cheap price. We're going to sooner rather than later have to become more reliant on local and regional supply chains like maybe the UK does a lot of things with Europe instead of Indonesia or New Zealand because those supply

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