Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today folks, we are rewinding back to episode 1532, originally published March 11th, 2015.

It was called Peak Flu, Peak Food is the real long slow emergency.

Long slow emergency, of course, has been applied to fossil fuels quite a bit.

And it was a little bit more kind of in the mainstream nomenclature at the time that I did this episode.

The way this episode got into this series, as I decided while it was gone down in Bastrop,

since I was down there to teach about permaculture, I would leave you with a week of the best permaculture stuff that I had.

And my original plan was to give you four shows that were all interview shows,

instead of any just jack shows.

But in doing some research for my presentation, my own past work, I came across this episode,

now this is a good one to lead off with.

One of the things about this,

it might be the most impactful thing.

And it was the statistic that I was looking for for my presentation that I'll be doing on Thursday in Bastrop this week.

It's the very definition of an unsustainable system.

An unsustainable system, I think almost everybody in the world from your eco hippie, to your scientist,

and everybody in the middle that even thought about the term unsustainable,

would agree that a system that you have to put more energy into than you will ever get out of it.

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