Our Unsustainable Future
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week I delivered a lecture to UC Berkeley students who are studying sustainability. I’ve done this for the past ten years or so, and I’m delighted to be asked back year after year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, all you wonderful listeners and subscribers to the Peak Prosperity Channel. |
| 0:04.0 | Listen, I have a big treat for you. If you want to know what's happening, why the banking system is in crisis and why that's going to be a perpetual crisis, you need to widen up a little bit and step back. |
| 0:14.0 | Fortunately, I just recorded and presented a big long piece to Berkeley's sustainability class. A lot of fun. I enjoy speaking with them every year. Smart kids. I'm going to share that same presentation with you here, and we're going to do it in three parts. So here in part one, we're going to set the whole thing up. Part two. We're going to talk about energy in the economy. And then in part three, the environment and what we can do about all of this. |
| 0:37.5 | So look out for those other parts. |
| 0:39.4 | As always, leave your comments down below. |
| 0:41.5 | I read them all. |
| 0:42.3 | I just want to know what you think. |
| 0:43.9 | This is my biggest, most important framing. |
| 0:46.2 | If you get this, I think you understand, well, both what's going to happen in the future |
| 0:51.9 | and why. |
| 0:52.6 | It's both predictive and explanatory. So if you're |
| 0:55.4 | curious at all about where this puck is going and you want to be able to skate there, you're going |
| 1:00.5 | to want to watch this series. Thanks for listening and let's dive right into it and I'll be right |
| 1:05.0 | back at the end of this. So I want to define what I consider to be the main challenge we have today, which is that we're on a very unsustainable course right now. |
| 1:15.1 | And I want to talk about how we got there. |
| 1:17.1 | And my orientation, again, is to pull everything together. |
| 1:20.5 | I love this quote from Leonardo da Vinci, which is that we need to learn how to see. |
| 1:25.3 | Everything connects to everything. |
| 1:26.8 | So that's what I want to do here is connect some dots because they really need to be how to see. Everything connects to everything. So that's what I want to do here is connect |
| 1:28.4 | some dots because they really need to be connected. And it's really important that we understand |
| 1:34.7 | how these three things come together. So I connect the economy with energy, with the environment. |
| 1:40.8 | I do a lot of focus on the economy because everything we want to do |
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