The Four Horsemen of the Next Decade

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We are living through a big Gaussian curve, which is the carbon pulse. On top of this we overlay social construct which is money. Money powers the world, at least in our transactions but every monetary claim has energy underpinning it. When commercial banks create money, they do not create energy or copper or dolphins or trees or the interest on the money. So our monetary supply keeps going up and up and up. We need to look at our situation with a systems perspective.

In Part 3 of this Frankly Series, Nate (just after watching the movie Oppenheimer!) breaks down the logic of how we COULD arrive at a post-growth future. Our global situation is complex and not static - IF we somehow are able to shrink the global economic output (which would imply significantly less oil use) we first have to navigate ‘the 4 Horsemen of the 2020s’. Nate outlines 10 possible avenues for how this could happen, not as a prescription but as a description of various possible scenarios. The implications of the complexity of our global systems means a path to a world without our current dependence on growth will not be an easy one. Yet understanding these hurdles between our current situation and an eventual post-growth future is essential to shifting the initial conditions of such a global transformation towards ‘better-than-the-default’ outcomes. How do impending and converging risks narrow our options for ways to move towards a different global system - and can we manage to protect the things that make life worth living?

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