Steve Vavrus: “Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic’s Temperature”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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What Would You Do if You Were a Benevolent Dictator?
If you were a benevolent dictator and there was no personal recourse to your decision, what is one thing you would personally do to improve human and planetary futures? I don't even know how to answer that question. I guess the first thing I would do is resign as dictator. Even a benevolent one. I would abdicate. We are so politically polarized right now that we can hardly stand to be in the same room with each other. Social media doesn't help this problem. I think it's made it worse, adding fuel to the fire. If I could find a way to turn down the temperature in especially political discourse, I would try to do that.
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