Do You Have Any Hope for a Major Transition?

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"I'm actually an optimistic person. I am fairly happy go lucky and I see a lot of the troubles but I fundamentally just have to believe that there's something we can do," he says. "This period is an anomaly in most of what we've learned our mindset is is a very temporary stage, it's not likely to last." He adds: "The human mind is incredibly plastic. We'll see whatever world that looks like to them will just be normal and accepted"

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