Is There a Synthesis of These Approaches?

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Saul Griffith: Is there a synthesis of, of those approaches? Because when I look at it, I say, well, the cutback mentality. You can't tell people just to live worse lives in, you know, with colder thermostats. And then on the other hand, we can continue growing at exactly the same rate that we have to change nothing. So what if we built small, easily decommissioned neighborhoods, so to speak, nukes and they did exist.

This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arrival of European settlers, indigenous communities were sparsely populated, lacked technology, and did little to shape the natural landscape. But as this week’s guest Charles C. Mann’s 1491 tells Adam, the most recent research reveals that the American indigenous civilizations were sophisticated, dynamic, and massively populated. Purchase his books 1491 and 1493 at http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.