Patrick Ophuls: "Energy, Politics, and The Future"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Are We Still the Same Beings?
He who knows only their own language and culture is also living hand to mouth. And I wish we had something more to show for it after these last 150 years of burning ancient sunlight just for microliters of dopamine times billions of people. If we had acted more wisely, we could have made fossil fuels a blessing for humanity. But we acted like spend thrift heirs. We're going to take the income and have a big party. The circumstances reflect how human nature is manifested in the world but we're still the same beings we were 30,000 years ago.
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