Greetings, everyone. I've been working on the system story that I call the human predicament. Others call the meta-crisis now for over 20 years.

And one of the big discoveries I've had is it's not so much an environmental crisis or an energy crisis or an economic crisis or a

political crisis. It's all of those things, but it's really a mismatch of our social primate

brain from a vast disconnection from our ancestral conditions to this super normal

stimulus smorgasbord of technology and stuff world and we're trying to make sense

of it and so I do think the answers, quote unquote, reside in our awareness, our consciousness,

how we interact with other humans, how we interact with the natural world,

and how this scales a human, a family, a community, a region at a time.

So in order to understand where we are,

we know that something is wrong, but there's a lot of people working on solutions,

but some technology or some policy only makes sense if we can see the bigger picture and have the correct diagnosis the patient

now is global human civilization and the biosphere and there is a story that connects

uh all the disparate disciplines and things um that are relevant so my my framing is that we have an economic system that we take ideas and we combine

energy and materials into products and we represent those products in the marketplace by putting

a value on them, like dollars

or yen or euros.

And we cycle through this every quarter and every year.

And this whole process gives us feelings, neurotransmitters and endocrine cascades, and the

whole thing produces waste.

I'm going to briefly talk about this economic system. So our culture is energy

blind. We look at our progress and our productivity and our wealth with a money and a technology

lens without realizing that we're all alive during what one day might be referred to as the carbon pulse, which is this

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