Reflections From India | Frankly #54
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Recorded February 13 2024
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Returning from his first visit to India for a six-week limbic reset, Nate shares insights on both his personal experiences in the country and how its history, culture, and role as a rising economic power intermingle to create a unique position into the coming decades. Despite India's history of avoiding globalization and industrialization, westernized patterns are emerging, including an expanding reliance on fossil fuels - and resultant convenience and consumption. Yet, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, significant labor devoted to agriculture, and increasing vulnerability to global heating, India will face unique challenges and opportunities within the human predicament. As many Indians remain unaware of their country's growing role in global heating and the effects it will bring, what alternative opportunities for permaculture and other restorative projects remain within the Indian subcontinent? How could India's abundant wealth of social capital and unique history/ethos help its people resist the encroachment of the Superorganism and play a larger role in the global Great Simplification?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings, or should I say namaste? |
| 0:05.0 | I am just back from six weeks in India and lots to report. |
| 0:13.0 | My experience there, my insight about humans, behavior, myself, and the future. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm just back, I've been a little under the weather |
| 0:26.6 | and I wanted to reenter the podcast recording space |
| 0:30.6 | with my reflections on India. |
| 0:34.6 | What an amazing, crazy, beautiful, unexpected place. And I think they're at the ground |
| 0:45.3 | zero for many of the things that are going to be coming our way in coming decades. So here's |
| 0:51.3 | a brief reflection on my first exposure to the country of India. |
| 1:10.0 | Of course, I've always known that India has almost one and a half billion people. |
| 1:14.6 | It's the Indian subcontinent. It's very warm there. It's an ancient culture. |
| 1:20.6 | But in my mind, these were always facts. |
| 1:23.6 | And until I went there and stayed there and met and lived with and communed with the people, |
| 1:32.2 | it really hit me now. |
| 1:34.9 | It hit my limbic system what that country is going to experience. |
| 1:39.6 | And it's no longer hypothetical. |
| 1:43.7 | So India has $ billion, 450 million people approaching one and a half |
| 1:50.5 | billion. That's relative to 300 some million for the United States, so five times more. But |
| 1:57.9 | their country is about a third the size of the United States. So they're 15 times more population density. |
| 2:03.6 | And they use mostly coal for energy. |
| 2:09.6 | Around 5% of India's energy is renewables. |
| 2:13.6 | And Modi just announced last month that they plan to double their coal production by 2030. |
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