Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Cost of Resiliency
BASF is a chemical refining company and they make a whole series of products. But there was more than 200 separate process plants where outputs and inputs were optimized together. This site had over, get this 100 train stations to move staff and products around. So my question to you is, we have based an entire global infrastructure on oil as the hemoglobin that transports goods around a global transportation structure remaining cheap and plentiful. And when that starts to get more expensive, all of our focus on profits and efficiency, we have optimized efficiency at a cost of resiliency.
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