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In this week’s Frankly, we join Nate in a fascinating thought experiment imagining participants in this week’s COP 28 in Dubai are liberated from the usual social sorting mechanisms which constrain real, forthright, challenging conversation around solving our most dire issues. What questions might participants ask at COP28 if there were no fear of losing social status and how might this liberation change the conversation around global heating? As social primates, there is a stainless steel ceiling on how much we can say in large groups of other humans -especially high status ones. Like the famous “smoke under the door” experiment of the 1970s, as the events of our world get more complex and more threatening, our first reality filter is observing the response of contemporaries. If they are unconcerned, we too tend to be. Unlike the one-room controlled college experiment, we now live in a smoke filled world, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. If you were sitting in Dubai at the convening of COP 28, what question would you ask given the state of the world right now??
In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President
That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher
We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF
This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor
Show Notes & Links to Learn More
00:06 – United Arab Emirates
00:08 – COP 28
00:32 – CO2 in the Atmosphere
01:06 – Study “Smoke Under the Door”
02:06 – Social sorting mechanisms to solve physical world problems
03:34 – Global carbon emissions
03:46 – Burning Man
03:55 – World using 19TW of power continuously
04:03 – Solar PV capacity
04:23 – Lifetime of solar equipment
05:28 – Paris Accord in 2015
05:32 – Grown renewable energy faster than we imagined
05:36 – Grown coal capacity by over 200GW globally
05:52 – Exit Strategy
06:12 – Demand and consumption
06:33 – Overshoot
07:41 – Oil exporting nations
08:03 – IPCC Climate Report
08:57 – 350 PPM in our atmosphere
08:59 – CCS, electric cars (TGS Episode “Electric Vehicles”)
09:08 – AI
09:10 – Mining asteroids and terraforming
09:39 – All-time oil availability
09:48 – Globalization
10:36 – James Hansen
10:39 – PETM level temperatures
11:06 – Sultan Al-Jabbar
12:44 – The Overton window
