Good morning. I am back from Climate Week in New York City, Gotham.

I had some amazing podcasts there on terror management theory and geoengineering and climate and CO2 is a story of life.

Please tune in the next month. There's some really great ones. climate and CO2 is a story of life.

Please tune in the next month.

There's some really great ones.

It's always strange when I go back to New York City.

I used to work there on Wall Street, the beating heart of the global economic superorganism.

And so today I just want to share some things I've learned in the last week and the juxtaposition of the global economic financial situation with the global planetary,

ecological situation.

It's almost like a Twilight Zone episode that we are living.

But also amazing, fascinating, and motivating to play a role in.

Music and motivating to play a role in. So one of the people I met with complimented me on this graph that we've shown a few times, showing the hierarchy of human

decision-making. This isn't the hierarchy of what the median human cares about. On the contrary,

the median human cares about the things that are lowest on this hierarchy,

which is the environment and the well-being of our citizens.

But the way that power in our system manifests this hierarchy, this pyramid has AI and access that supports it at the top, and military

and the currency markets and economic growth and energy and politics, etc.

And given I was in New York City, it made me think of the Exeter pyramid, which is a financial concept named after a Fed economist

named Exeter that shows a pyramid of various financial markers of wealth.

And during financial crises, there's a flight to quality where wealth tries to flow

down this pyramid towards safer, more tangible assets. But the pyramid is inverted because there's

vastly more wealth in derivatives and claims on claims on financial things at the top,

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