Every morning I take the dogs for a walk in the woods without my phone. The Japanese have a whole tradition of forest bathing and that kind of thing. As a way to get us out of our habitual neurosis into something saying her, which is nature. So yes, but that's not a form that's not formal meditation. No, yeah, it's a good practice. It's why I walk in nature. Yeah, I just wonder if we talk about education and the Davos World Economic Forum and classes. ...I just wonder if the whole world could slow down and do a day or three of meditation"
Today, ecologist, political scientist, and author Patrick Ophuls joins Nate to discuss his new book, The Tragedy of Industrial Civilization and The Future of Politics. As he’s been doing for his lifetime of scholarship, Patrick unpacks how energy, ecology and our political arrangements leave us in a predicament with no simple solutions. Before we can even begin to plan for the future, we need to understand the enormity of the biophysical challenges we will have to face - Patrick Ophuls helps us do just that.
About Patrick Ophuls:
Dr. Patrick Ophuls (who writes under the pen name William Ophuls) is an American political scientist, ecologist, independent scholar, and author. Patrick has a PhD in political science from Yale University and has been a prominent voice in the environmental movement since the 1970s. His award winning book in 1977 is on the bookshelves of most people I know. He has written 10 books including ‘Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity’, ‘Plato's Revenge’, ‘Politics in the Age of Ecology’, and ‘Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail’.
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