Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Future Complexity of Our Way of Life
I think it's energy blindness, and I don't know if this is willful ignorance that we would rather not know how much our lives are dependent on capital. The work I did in collapse brought me into working increasingly and seriously in the topic of the future complexity of our way of life. And coming from my background in anthropology, I realized that the human species is not suited to develop long-term sustainability. We didn't evolve to be broad-scale thinkers. Our ancestors, going back again down to maybe about 10,000 years ago, lived lives that were short.
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