The invasion of Ukraine threatens 25% of the world’s wheat exports. This could lead to skyrocketing food prices, bread riots, and political instability across the globe.
It was good to hear his perspectives on food and the economy. But, on climate change I wish Noah could hear additional engineers. Dozens of scientists are boycotting the next COP in Egypt because too little is stated and done. Just last week 6 engineers met and talked about climate change and it brought out how close our time frame is to extinction. The masses don't know about it so they cannot know about the easy solutions of stopping deforestation (animal ag) and maybe solar radiation management solutions.
Here's their talk part 1 and part 2 including Paul Beckwith, Sailesh Rao, Stephan Salter, James Desmond, Jamen Shively and John Doyle.
This is great food for thought. Noah is on the "not concerned" side of serious people on climate change (and he's still very concerned). There are many people, including experts you cite or someone like Martin Weitzman at Harvard (who thought we should invest something like 33% of all GDP to stop climate change), who are on the "much more concerned" side of the spectrum. One of the key points, for me, is that regardless of where you are on human impacts, there's no question animals are already being utterly annihilated. https://simpleheart.substack.com/p/the-mass-extermination-of-animals?s=w
you’re right on the heart of the matter. We the people produce; our Owners steal it and sell it back to us at prices we can’t afford. That’s capitalism. It’s accompanied by the structures of colonization, those big buildings with big pillars and difficulty entering and producing little when we do enter.
Amazing breadth of topics covered so competently! Wow, still digesting. & shared with all I know! Which is why I understand why you did not get into corruption - which, as has been commented below - is one of the things that has always been most in our way. what Dr. King noted in his speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (4/4/67) -https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
"Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the [poverty] program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. "
I'm curious about how we overcome or blast through the hormonal charge to power of the socio/psychopath types and the cults they socialize around them...it does seem that's a key barrier so often overlooked by activists and the Professional Management Class (PMC) who mostly have to work for them to feed their families...e.g. astrophysicists were corruptly socialized to create the 2008 derivatives that broke the banks worldwide. That goes on daily. Let alone Secrets of Playboy - Hugh Hefner - a king of sociopathic socialization.
Food system is already collapsed , food isn’t for people but for land animals in factory farms! Plant base food system now!
We discuss this on the podcast. But I think we're well on our way in that direction, my friend.
Excellent interview! Thank you
It was good to hear his perspectives on food and the economy. But, on climate change I wish Noah could hear additional engineers. Dozens of scientists are boycotting the next COP in Egypt because too little is stated and done. Just last week 6 engineers met and talked about climate change and it brought out how close our time frame is to extinction. The masses don't know about it so they cannot know about the easy solutions of stopping deforestation (animal ag) and maybe solar radiation management solutions.
Here's their talk part 1 and part 2 including Paul Beckwith, Sailesh Rao, Stephan Salter, James Desmond, Jamen Shively and John Doyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXJJdBd9yA&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TDa_-XwY4&t=785s
This is great food for thought. Noah is on the "not concerned" side of serious people on climate change (and he's still very concerned). There are many people, including experts you cite or someone like Martin Weitzman at Harvard (who thought we should invest something like 33% of all GDP to stop climate change), who are on the "much more concerned" side of the spectrum. One of the key points, for me, is that regardless of where you are on human impacts, there's no question animals are already being utterly annihilated. https://simpleheart.substack.com/p/the-mass-extermination-of-animals?s=w
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THANKS KRISTINA!
you’re right on the heart of the matter. We the people produce; our Owners steal it and sell it back to us at prices we can’t afford. That’s capitalism. It’s accompanied by the structures of colonization, those big buildings with big pillars and difficulty entering and producing little when we do enter.
You were right - what you’re talking about.
I think the solution is to ensure we transform our system to include a broader set of stakeholders, including non-human animals.
Amazing breadth of topics covered so competently! Wow, still digesting. & shared with all I know! Which is why I understand why you did not get into corruption - which, as has been commented below - is one of the things that has always been most in our way. what Dr. King noted in his speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (4/4/67) -https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
"Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the [poverty] program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. "
I'm curious about how we overcome or blast through the hormonal charge to power of the socio/psychopath types and the cults they socialize around them...it does seem that's a key barrier so often overlooked by activists and the Professional Management Class (PMC) who mostly have to work for them to feed their families...e.g. astrophysicists were corruptly socialized to create the 2008 derivatives that broke the banks worldwide. That goes on daily. Let alone Secrets of Playboy - Hugh Hefner - a king of sociopathic socialization.
To further this discussion - poorpeoplescampaign.org is organizing up to Apr 4th nationwide readings of Dr. King's speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_xYIpdeNM | https://forms.gle/i5TR1Y1J6tx3yX7D8
Assume you prob know about Erica Chenoweth's study: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 - the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict. https://www.momentumcommunity.org/webinars - her discussing it!