The average American uses 57 barrel of oil equivalents of fossil fuels per year and we use another 17 that are burned in other countries. There's an online slave calculator where you put in the you know how many plane flights you use and how many kilowatts your house uses and how much stuff you buy, it says how many people are uh in the third world in slave like or indentured servitude positions to make your life work. So again this is where we have global dependency global effects so you have to have global governance otherwise everybody just does not in my backyard and sends the messed up stuff to countries that don't really have much of a choice. It has plausible deniability on their own
In this fourth installment of conversations with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we dive deeper into the nuances of humans using energy, materials and technology. Human’s ability to develop and use tools is one of our greatest strengths - yet has also led to increasing destruction of the natural world. How does technology intensify the binding effects of a world order based on growth? Is there any way out - or could global solutions just make the problem worse?
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.
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