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EP 168 Nate Hagens on Collective Futures

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Energy Is the Currency of Life

Peter Ward: Can we use the game from the carbon pulse to build a post carbon way of life that's of high quality for scary number 8 billion people in time? The short answer is yes, but there's a technical part of that, and there's a social political governance part. We've built a civilization on a very high energy return. As we get lower quality fossil fuels, like shale oil or light tight oil, or the really low quality coal grades, we don't get as much energy return.

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