The Solutions that can be Named are not the Solutions | Frankly #67
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Recorded July 23 2024
In this week's Frankly, Nate addresses the common desire for solutions to the human predicament - and why the championing of "solutions" is less clear-cut than we might perceive. To this end, he offers a three-dimensional model for thinking about a framework for responses.
Effective responses greatly depend on the context of an individual - by highlighting specific 'solutions' we narrow the scope of the conversation and exclude creative and empowered humans with different interests and skills.
Additionally, much like nature, the human socio-economic system is adaptive, and rapidly self-adjusts to new information and threats, making novel strategies difficult to implement and disperse at larger scales. As such, simplistic answers that can be publicly shared with millions are probably not going to work. If we zoom out, we see that responses with the potential to shift our systems in a better direction are only possible through emergent processes and may not be able to be championed publicly for a variety of reasons.
How can we expect to steer towards more humane futures by approaching The Great Simplification with the same 'quick-fix' mindset enabled during the Carbon Pulse? What is the role of critical leadership and governance that will be needed in coming decades but is perceived as too radical today? How can we, as both individuals and communities, think about our distinct place within the larger world and how that might shape our unique responses?
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| 0:00.0 | Go-weypongyo, all. That's a very polite way to say greetings in Chinese. |
| 0:08.4 | You know, it would be great, as an aside, to have someone from China on the show to discuss |
| 0:17.0 | the metacrisis and how China is thinking about and facing some of these things. |
| 0:22.6 | So last week I had a frankly called the Reality Party. |
| 0:28.6 | It was really my frustration looking at both parties in the United States, and I'm sure it's similar elsewhere in the world, not really talking about the |
| 0:40.6 | core issues that we're going to be facing in the coming decade. |
| 0:44.9 | And some of the feedback I got is what would a reality party stand for? |
| 0:50.7 | What would be the solutions to the human predicament? |
| 0:56.1 | What would be the policies that we would put forward? And today I want to talk about that and talk about specifically why I am not |
| 1:04.6 | promoting certain solutions to what we face, at least not yet. |
| 1:12.0 | And that is going to be the subject of today's, frankly. |
| 1:15.9 | Okay, so brief recap, the human predicament. |
| 1:19.9 | We are supported by ancient sunlight and treating it as if it were interest. |
| 1:27.2 | We currently have a 20 terawatt, a 19-some terawatt. ancient sunlight and treating it as if it were interest. |
| 1:27.9 | We currently have a 20 terawatt, a 19-some terawatt global human metabolism, which is around |
| 1:36.6 | 190 billion light bulbs worth of energy turned on 24-7. |
| 1:43.2 | That is impacting the biosphere in its waste absorption capacity. |
| 1:48.0 | We're overlaying this with monetary claims that continue to grow. |
| 1:54.0 | We're in ecological overshoot. Climate change is just one of many risks to the environment, |
| 2:00.0 | including novel entities and plastic and Phaas and |
| 2:03.5 | species loss, et cetera. It's my belief and my 20 years of research has led me to believe that |
| 2:11.3 | from 19 terawatts, we will hit 15 terawatts before we hit 25 terawatts. |
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