We can have a world that runs on a resource that's available to everyone everywhere.

That's a very different thing than a resource that can be hoarded and held in reserve and doled out as needed.

And it's here, by the way, that I think that the rest of the world is really catching on.

Hello and welcome to Wise. It's happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

I was on vacation, blessedly, for two weeks, which was incredible. Thank you to all the folks that helped make that possible, including Antonia Hilton and Ali Valshi, my colleagues, who filled in.

And let me tell you, I really tried to take a break from the news as much as possible.

It sort of pokes in.

And when you're away from it, you are really struck by just how relentlessly bad it feels.

Like, just I just kept getting these alerts.

I was like, what?

There's tanks in D.C.

There's, I mean, not tanks, but there's MRAPs in D.C.

And they're every day he's giving Putin a flyover and they've got American soldiers on their hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for it.

Like, what?

And so today's podcast is so

needed and so great and I am so excited for it because there is, there are many good stories

happening in the world at all times. I mean, that's genuinely true. But there is one good story happening in the world.

That's the most important good story and also the most important story. It's actually probably

the most civilizationally transformative moment since the Industrial Revolution and the discovery

of fossil fuels. And it is also just not covered.

It's so crazy. It's a complete, utter revolution in the means by which we power our civilization

that is happening before our eyes. And for all of the talk of AI and all the hype about AI and all the talk about the end of the neoliberal order and all the talk about a million things and the talk about the climate crisis, which is acute and getting worse, this story, which is the one genuinely uplifting, promising, exciting story, which is that we now have the means at our disposal

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