Will We Ever Have a Choice?

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When did we as a culture ever really have a choice? And will we ever have a moment in the future where we have a choice. I think everything that you just said would have been true 100 years ago or 50 years ago or 10 or 20 years from now, probably. We are part of the crisis finding this huge amount of ancient sunlight just under the surface. It's hard to, nobody has crystal balls hard to peer into the future. So we have now to make a serious change. But sure, we can do something now.

This week, Nate invites colleague Tom Murphy, professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego and writer of ‘Do the Math’, to unpack his recent essay The Simple Story of Civilization. Tom condenses the vast timescale of human life on Earth to an average human lifespan to give us a sense of the anomalous period we’re living through. What is civilization and how quickly did it come about? Can technology redirect civilization from its current perilous course? Is optimism näive or is it necessary in order to make the hard decisions within us? A 30 minute overview with Nate and Professor Tom Murphy.

For Show Notes and More: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/22-the-simple-story-of-civilization

To Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6yFrh1X6DI