Good morning. Welcome to part four, the final part of this just stop oil series. I never really

intended on calling this just stop oil. I just wanted to highlight the two parts of the narrative.

There's just stop oil and just pump oil, which kind of gets to the core message of this series, is that there are two very

important but distinct, at least to most people's perception, stories.

And where we ended part three was if we had to a lower emission scenario or a post-growth scenario,

we have to first navigate the four horsemen of the 2020s, which are financial overshoot.

Since that episode came out, the forecast for the United States is borrowing $3 billion a day with higher interest rates.

We're going to borrow $1.5 trillion in the second half of this year.

This strategy has an expiration date, and this is not just the United States.

The second is also getting worse. The second

horseman is geopolitics, war, and the real-life game of risk. There are drone attacks now

from Ukraine backed by NATO in Russia, naval ships, etc. The third horseman is the global supply chains and

complexity, and the fourth is the social contract. How do we talk, discuss, and decide things

with our fellow countrymen and women, fellow citizens of the world.

That's one story.

The other story is the web of life and the environment that is downstream from human decisions,

behaviors, and economies.

There are three subsets of environmental damage and risk.

The first is the metabolism that comes from the size and scale of the global energy-hungry superorganism.

And we discuss the superorganism dynamic, how our culture optimizes profits,

tethered to energy, tethered to carbon. This superorganism dynamic predates corporations. It predates

fossil fuels. It predates capitalism. It originated when humans left hunter-gather lifestyles to store surplus, which created hierarchy and everything else.

...