#170 — The Great Uncoupling

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Andrew McAfee about the history of human progress and the modern uncoupling of our prosperity from resource consumption. They discuss the pitfalls and hidden virtues of capitalism, technological progress, environmental policy, the future of the developing world, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
0:12.1	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
0:16.2	the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense
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0:46.9	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:50.0	Okay, once again, reminding subscribers to go to my website, log in and get our private RSS feed.
1:03.0	As I've now said a few times in housekeeping here, there's some changes coming and I don't want
1:08.3	you to miss any subscriber-only content. So just take a minute. Sorry for the inconvenience,
1:15.3	but if you're on mobile and go to the subscriber content page on my site, if you're using one of
1:22.2	the supported pod catchers, just one click and you will have the right feed. And again, the right
1:29.0	feed comes through with a red Making Sense icon, not a black one. And one of the things that'll
1:35.8	be coming through on the subscriber feed soon are the conversations that I've been having on the
1:42.0	waking up app. Many of you have asked that I release those jointly on the subscriber feed,
1:47.9	and we will be doing that. Also new as of last podcast, I will be adding an afterward to these
1:56.1	conversations. In many cases, talking about the effect that the guest had on me. And I did that for
2:03.6	the first time with Kathleen Ballou in my last podcast on the White Power Movement. And some of you
2:11.3	objected to what I said there. I said at one point that I detected a level of wokeness in her
2:18.3	that I didn't want to engage with because I thought it would be a distraction. And a few of you
2:23.8	objected that I was landing a blow on my guest when she wasn't there to defend herself.
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