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A young man from Afghanistan told me he would rather be homeless in the United States. He said that despite what's going in Afghanistan, people can grow food there and they take care of other people. And so all this has got me thinking about how we are as a species approaching an inflection point of the carbon pulse. That's going to change everything about our lifestyles,. our institutions, our expectations, the social contract. Next week I'll do a podcast with Antonio Turiel talking about that Europe and Spain are going to approach the great simplification much sooner than the U.S.

Recorded March 29, 2023

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In this Frankly, Nate reflects on the varying perspectives from which people perceive the meta-crisis relative to their own circumstances. This extends to the countries we live in and the particular economic/social situations we are part of. But each of these is part of a wider systems lens that we should at least keep in mind and respect - even if it doesn’t feel like our central cause. The challenging times ahead will have huge implications for the social progress of the last few centuries on local, national, and international levels. There will never be one solution to such grand scale problems. As we work on responding to these challenges, keeping in mind the scope and complexity of these issues might allow us to approach them from a place of empathy and compassion.

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