Greetings. I've got a part two on the, how would society actually stop or reduce oil or more broadly stop economic growth, but it's turned out to be a little bit involved, and I want to have my new AI animator add some contributions.

So that probably would be next week.

I caught myself yesterday talking to a friend saying, you know what scares me most?

And I realized I say that a lot.

You know what scares me most is?

And I complete that sentence many different ways.

So today I thought I would do a very quick reflection on seven things that actually

scare me the most. I'm sure all of you, almost by definition, of into this channel, are aware of many of the challenges facing society, facing our planet, facing the natural world.

In coming years, decades, centuries, millennia, and beyond, I think you would all have different answers

to what are the three, four, five, six things that scare you.

And these change over time because 20, 30 years ago, I clearly would have said spiders.

And why I long for those days, right?

Where we would be scared by something as simple and as harmless, as a spider.

So this is personal to my unique worldview and temperament and personality.

But these are pretty much the seven things that scare me.

So number seven, and they're in no order, really. This is kind of out the top of my head. I just jotted them down 20 minutes ago. And you won't be surprised to hear this is

nuclear war. I think we're not planning a nuclear war, but it's when giant, powerful, ambitious, hubristic nations play at the global game of risk

with large stakes and grain and oil and rare earth minerals and all of a sudden encountering

biophysical limits to the trajectory that came before, some sort

of mistake, some sort of an escalatory movement of words that move into kinetic and a bomb

is exchanged and then another in retaliation and all of a sudden it is something

that has been suppressed in our consciousness for the last 50 years because it's never happened.

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