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Srsly Wrong

300 – Ecological Luxury

Srsly Wrong

Srsly Wrong

Society & Culture, Comedy, History, News & Politics

4.9518 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 177 minutes

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Summary

Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can humanity live comfortable, luxurious lives, all while reducing our energy consumption and living within the bounds of ecology? Listen to find out!...

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0:00.0

Warning.

0:01.4

The world has now become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

0:06.7

That's a quote from John Platt.

0:09.2

He was right.

0:10.1

Great point, John.

0:11.2

Yeah, he actually advocated in the 1950s for universal libraries to be in everyone's living rooms,

0:16.3

but he advocated for using microscopic books as a way to achieve that.

0:22.0

So you have, like, tiny books, and you get, like, tweezers out.

0:25.5

And, I mean, in a way, a smartphone is like having microscopic books.

0:29.5

So just the size of bits and bites on a hard drive kind of thing.

0:33.6

Yeah, no, he was on the right course, for sure.

0:35.6

Yeah.

0:36.1

You do save materials having tiny books.

0:39.2

Working together to do the impossible, or we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

0:45.7

Gather your people. Have all your friends. Together, this is how it ends.

0:52.4

Run towards the future.

1:16.6

Never away. All this could be yours. Imagine Utopia. Columbia! Welcome back. Never away.

1:20.6

All this could be yours.

1:23.6

Imagine Utopia.

1:26.6

Welcome back to the Seriously Wrong podcast.

1:30.8

That was Aaron and I'm Sean.

1:32.7

You might remember us from last time.

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