
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are We Going to Scale Back Our Expectations?
We're going to have a frank discussion of what minerals we think we need versus what we've got, he says. We'll start doing things like making batteries out of sodium or sand, silica or fluoride or zinc or lead. Low tech scalable things that don't give us the dopamine return on investment, but they are cheap and functional. They keep it alive. And can be recycled. Right? So that's what we're going to first scale back our expectations and our requirements for complex complex technology. Then we're goingto start sourcing our minerals from our waste products because it's all around us. Can we do stuff with what we have instead of trying to mine it in the first
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