Mann: It comes down to what, what solutions are actually going to be effective in which ones are wishful thinking. He says we don't really know what the consequences of 2.5 degrees or three degrees or two degrees are. We simply don't know how fast battery prices can go down and how cheaply we can make new things," Mann said.
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.
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