A Linear Materials Economy That Drives Catastrophic Risks

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A linear materials economy that unrenewably takes resources from the earth faster than they can reproduce themselves, has led to planetary boundaries issue. We see that the radical inner connection of the world was good in terms of will not bomb each other, but it also created very fragility because what it meant is a failure anywhere could cascade to failures everywhere. So we endd up seeing a drive of the food and security, of extreme poverty, at a scale of death threat that is larger than the covid death threat was as a second order effect of our problem.

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.