Greetings. I'm just back from a trip to North Carolina, and I almost feel like doing it,

frankly, about how there was no air conditioning on the airplane and how the American response

to the inconvenience is kind of a microcosm of what the human predicament is. We were flying across

the sky 700 miles an hour and it was an affront to the airline industry and people's lives

because there was no air conditioning.

But I digress.

On the plane, I wrote some notes.

This podcast is a year and a half old, almost.

And the theme is the great simplification, which is that our culture, our species, has now consumed beyond

our means for 50 years, arguably for hundreds of years.

We have kicked many cans and in the not too distant future we're going to have energy,

material, financial, social, and ecological limits.

Podcasting about this has limits itself.

And I'm unsure of the way forward on this, other than I'm trying to be a spokesperson for reality

and hand the mic to other people that are trying to describe our biophysical situation

in order to influence the future in better ways. Here is just a non, you know, non-inclusive list of things that I thought of that are problems or

challenges with such a podcast endeavor.

The first of all is that there are multiple audiences simultaneously.

There are people who have followed me for 15 years that understand overshoot that money

is created with no reference to biophysical tether, that energy underpins our society

and that it's depleting and is non-fungible with other types of energy,

and that the geopolitical situation cannot go back to the way it was in January 2022 and that we've entered the long

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