This is the second episode of a two-part series on energy and our economy. The first was about how we are tethered to fossil energy, which were drawing down ten million times faster than it was sequestered. And so when you talk about climate change or over population or some of these issues, those are all down stream. Those are symptoms of the corps problem. So that's con o, my ecological, energy, material, human behavior, anthropological view of the human predicament. How does this match? A, how would you say things differently? Where do you disagree? Lay it on me.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In Part 3 of their series, Schmachtenberger and Hagens explore metanarratives. Why are they threatening to various sections of society?
Further, Schmachtenberger helps us understand how we can take in the systemic metacrisis facing humanity in ways that grant us agency, rather than despair.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/31-daniel-schmachtenberger