I think the big phase change is worth shifting from reliance on fossil fuels that can be individually owned, and there's individual choice ofreduce to sowor there's competition for them. I really think we're flipping to a wildly new paradime for an economy where competitive self interest has become increasingly suicidal. And it's not just things like oil have a collective cost. Things like an alternative vaccine, a vaccine for covid have collective benefits. We need to figure out how do we produce good solar, good alternative energy without the coal, balt without the, you know, rare earth without these things that are environmentally harmful.
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes competition. What role will cooperation play in helping us solve our largest existential problems?
Farley explains the critical social dilemma humans face: How can we grapple with the paradox that individuals are better served to act selfishly, but cooperation among individuals makes everyone better off?
Additionally, Professor Farley helps us distinguish the difference between how a system works, and how we can understand and participate in changing a system.
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