World is doubling its debt every eight to nine years, and we're only doubling our g d p. That's before energy declines an you know, pecoil. So a money isn't created out of in air. That's going too far. Sike: A financial economy and a material economy can't be totally decoupled. We've grown our material for footprint two point eight % a year since the year 19 hundred a so given that if we grow at three % a year, we will double the amount of energy and materials used on the world in the next 25 to 30 years. And we'll double it again after that. i don't think the next doubling is going
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In the second of a four-part series, Nate and Daniel explore the relationship between energy, information, technology, the Superorganism, and the maximum power principle.
How can we maximize returns on agency? Nate and Daniel explain the importance of hyper agents: those humans who have an outsized influence on what’s happening in the world.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/20-daniel-schmactenberger