The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future | Frankly 64
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Frankly, Nate shares twenty different things to expect in the future, some which will be extremely difficult to influence but others which are in our control to change. From the forecast of an increasingly hotter planet due to the Superorganism's insatiable appetite for fossil-carbon energy to a world of growing conflict and inequality, our tendencies are to despair and feel a loss of control.
Will moving from a world of consumption and power defined by money and social status and away from apathy and isolation be possible? What if we purposefully turn the 'control knobs' in our own lives to shift how we approach a post-growth future by embracing reality - instead of unrealistic tech solutions - redirecting our focus towards deeper interconnection with community and local systems? Which control knobs might we turn to fill our hearts and lives with goodness, awe and wonder?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's been a few weeks since I had a frankly. I have been working, believe it or not, on |
| 0:11.0 | averting a World War III with conversations in D.C. and elsewhere, I feel we're slouching towards some situation and it's bizarrely not in the |
| 0:25.3 | news, etc. I digress. That is not the focus of this, frankly. I would like to talk about |
| 0:34.2 | the future and some of the things that are likely to happen that are out of our |
| 0:40.6 | control and because of them some of the things that might be in our control I'd like to think |
| 0:48.9 | about the control knobs or the volume knobs of the future and I I'm going to list 10, which are definitely not |
| 0:57.2 | exhaustive categories of what future decades might be of things out of our control. And follow |
| 1:05.7 | with 10 that might be in our control. |
| 1:11.0 | And then tomorrow or the next day I'm going up north fishing with nine of my male |
| 1:17.1 | relatives, which is kind of an annual pilgrimage. |
| 1:21.0 | So there will be no frankly next week. |
| 1:23.0 | And when I come back, I'm going to be a tanner, fatter, and full of foul language and probably sores |
| 1:29.7 | on my fingers. So without further ado, here are the 10 volume knobs of the future. First of all, |
| 1:40.5 | many of you will instantly agree and understand this first one and many of you will |
| 1:45.1 | shrug it off. |
| 1:46.8 | But the volume knob from cooler to a warmer world will be unfolding over coming decades |
| 1:54.0 | and centuries unless something incredibly bizarre like a nuclear war were to happen. This year, because it's an El Nino |
| 2:03.6 | year, it probably will peak and then we'll go back down for a few years, but the trend is higher. |
| 2:10.7 | I don't know where we're going to stop, but a two degree is almost a certainty, two and a half and three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial |
| 2:19.8 | times are quite possible, if not likely. And this has major, major consequences for how we live |
| 2:27.9 | maybe not here in northern United States per se as much as in Saudi Arabia last week on the pilgrimage over a |
| 2:37.8 | thousand people died because the temperature was 51 Celsius, like 125 or something. |
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