what I propose in commanding hope is a uh is a notion of hope that 00:25:30 counter poses to each of those critiques an alternative understanding of Hope hope that's honest instead of false astute instead of naive and Powerful instead of passive
for: definition - robust hope, robust hope triplet
definition: robust hope
hope is a very 00:22:57 critical leverage point in addressing the challenges we face
-for: polycrisis - leverage point - hope, quote - leverage point - hope
hope is really the antidote to fear and anger
-for: adjacency - polycrisis - fear - hope - antidote
-adjacency between - fear - anger - hope - antidote - adjacency statement - hope is the antidote to fear and anger
I argue we must address This Global poly crisis along two simultaneous pathways
for: claim - polycrisis - two parallel interventions
claim: polycrisis can be tackled with a two pronged approach
in some ways it may well be that this Century will be 00:16:19 a century characterized by the emotion of fear for many people and fear doesn't stay fear it often becomes anger and anger and fear are often exploited by 00:16:31 folks who uh use those emotions as a ways of as a as a way of building their political Authority to deepen divisions within their society to draw together their followers into sort of a fevered 00:16:45 pitch and uh and use and use the exploitation as political opportunists use the exploitation of fear and anger to build their Authority and Power
for: adjacency - polycrisis - fear - anger - political exploitation
adjacency between
in terms of amplification and acceleration you can this waveform diagram is sort of a nice metaphor graphical metaphor for the increasing severity of crises and the increasing 00:13:44 frequency of crises within our world
for: waveform diagram - amplification and acceleration of crisis
comment
one thing we have noticed with these stresses is that uh from most of them we see these three 00:11:11 phenomena the stresses are amplifying accelerating and synchronizing uh simultaneously
for: pernicious cascades - qualities, stats - pernicious cascade, synchronized crisis
stats - pernicious cascades - climate change
the Cascade Institute we're interested in two kinds of Cascades
for: cascades - two types, pernicious cascades, virtuous cascades, definition - pernicious cascade, definition - virtuous cascade
definition - pernicious cascade
they're probably about 15 or 20 major long-term stresses that you can identify that are affecting 00:09:43 Humanities outcomes for Better or For Worse and Trigger events which which are much less predictable
for: stats - major stressors of the polycrisis, trigger events
stats: major stressors of the polycrisis
at the Cascade Institute based on partly because of work that I've been doing for uh now almost 20 years looking at the implications of converging crises uh we have really focused on the 00:09:07 relationships between between all these different challenges that humanity is facing what are the Deep connections between them
for: Cascade Institute - research focus
Cascade institute - research focus
Why do some societies successfully adapt while others do not? I concluded that a central characteristic of societies that successfully adapt is their ability to produce and deliver useful ideas (or what I call “ingenuity”) to meet the demands placed on them by worsening environmental problems.
for: question - adaptation - answer - adaptation, adaptation - ingenuity, endogenous growth, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Cascade Institute
question: adaptation
answer: adaptation
references
almost all wealthy countries now is dominated 00:13:37 by the car it's not about moving people it's about moving lumps of metal around with one person in them You' have to move away from that
we have to be very careful when we respond to climate change we're not exacerbating the other ones that are there and 00:12:34 ideally we want to try and respond to all of these challenges at the same time and there are a lot of crossovers between them but there are also real risks that sometimes you you solve one thing and cause another now in contemporary Society we have been very 00:12:47 good at reductionist thinking of of silos of thinking one bit and then causing another problem elsewhere we we don't have that opportunity anymore we have to start to think of these issues at a system level
for: progress trap - Kevin Anderson
validation: SRG mapping tool, Indyweb
for some large corporations, the carbon footprint from their investments and cash in banks can be their largest source of emissions; for PayPal, for example, its carbon footprint from banking in 2021 was 55 times larger than all of its other emissions combined.
for: carbon footprint of investments - example, carbon footprint - Paypal
example
Consider pushing your company to change its own banking
for: SRG campaign - stop high emissions banking
SRG campaign
Find a better bank
for: search for - low carbon bank
to
limitation
if you bank with one of the largest 11 banks in the U.S., the report suggests using the rough estimate of 0.24 metric tons of CO2 for every $1,000 you have in the bank. Between 20% and 30% of your money is likely used in fossil fuel projects or other carbon-intensive sectors like mining.
for: stats - bank emissions
stats: bank emissions
for:climate crisis - solutions - banking
from:[ Linked In Jonathan Foley Post] (https://hyp.is/TMzeTpnkEe6gsIcc_dt8hg/www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathan-foley-182808b9_how-to-break-up-with-your-bank-activity-7140431002400677888--kqs/)
Royal Bank of Canada was the biggest fossil fuel financier in the world last year after providing over $42 billion US in funding.
for: fossil fuel - financing - RBC
comment
Exciting new report from Project Drawdown shows how changing your bank might be one of the most effective hashtag#climate solution levers we can pull.
to: [Fast Company article on bank emissions] (https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcompany.com%2F90996425%2Fhow-to-break-up-with-your-bank&group=world)
What is needed is a breakaway group of nations willing to get serious about the climate emergency. Who would join it? Most of the world’s countries, potentially.
for: key point: alternative COP - breakaway group of nations, quote - alternative COP
quote
date: Dec 4, 2021
comment
“come back next year and try again”. My response is that it will be the same old thing – they’ve had 26 chances already. The planet can’t afford any more. I think the time for the Cop process is over. We just can’t keep kicking the can down the road.
for: quote - COP - Rupert Read, quote - COP - come back next year and try again, quote - alternative COP
quote
date: Dec. 4, 2021
quote
date: Dec 4, 2021
comment
Rupert Read has the best idea I have heard re international climate negotiations: countries that are serious should have their own conference where they collaborate on strong targets, plans, etc. Part of which should be recognising the dangers of remaining reliant on the petrostates, planning to transcend that reliance and sanctioning them
for: good idea - COP alternative, COP alternative - coalition of the willing, COP alternative - social tipping point, Rupert Read - alternative to COP
good idea: COP alternative
question: alternative COP
reference
google.search: nexialist meaning
its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
for: quote - luxury cannot be democratized, 1% - democracy, elites - democracy, adjacency - luxury - democracy, luxury is not democratic, luxury is inequality, Andre Gorz, Terrestrial website, adjancency - luxury - democracy, quote luxury
quote
publication: Terrestrial
comment
adjacency between:
Whatever one thinks of Sultan Al Jaber, one statement he’s made repeatedly makes perfect sense: “We cannot unplug the world from the current energy system before we build a new energy system.” The focus, then, has to shift.
for: quote - Sultan Al Jabber, quote - energy replacement instead of phase out, key point - focus on energy transition instead of just fossil fuel phase out
quote
date : Dec 6, 2023
key point
Yet we have to not lose sight of the opportunity ahead. We have a chance to get a global agreement on some unprecedented milestones that have never been on the table before: tripling renewables worldwide by 2030, reducing fossil fuel use worldwide, and releasing trillions of climate finance. What many don’t realise is that we are dealing with nonlinear dynamics here – not simple straight line change.
for: COP28 - success without phase out
key point
green colonialism
for: definition - green colonialism
definition: green colonialism
Ultimately, the conversation needs to change to how we phase out fossil fuel demand. Because it’s demand that keeps producers in business.
for: fossil fuel phase out, fossil fuel phase down, fossil fuel demand phase out
suggestion - by Nafeez Ahmed - fossil fuel demand phase out
for: carbon emissions - colonialism correction
title: Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
publication: Carbon Brief
SUMMARY
better described by a phylogenetic network than a bifurcating tree.[1] Reticulate patterns can be found in the phylogenetic
for: salience mismatch - comparison - phylogenetic network - bifurcating tree
salience mismatch: comparison - phylogenetic network - bifurcating tree
This dangerous framing is compounded by a generally supine media owned or controlled by the 1%
This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate societal aspirations and the narratives around climate change.
for: quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - 1% manipulation
quote
For a flip-of-a-coin chance of staying at or below 1.5°C we have, globally, just five to eight years of current emissions before we blow our carbon budget
for: do people know? - 50% chance, 1.5 Deg. C target - is still a crap shoot
new trailmark: do people know?
do people know?: 50% chance
they have the power to hinder progress towards stopping the climate crisis, especially with their control of mainstream media.
we need to find things and issues and events that people care about that brings together the big social blocks that we have so 00:53:07 people as workers people as women people as disabled people as racialized and so on and so forth uh to into having a a united front and then when there has 00:53:21 that United f it needs to have a radical Democratic element extremely radical Democratic element as in this is not just we're changing some of the people that are at the top of the 00:53:34 state we have to go into democratize the state
for: appropriate cliches - united we stand, appropriate cliches - power to the people
suggestion
they have been swallowed up into uh you know the left part of the 00:52:30 the block that fights against the the rightwing block that's a necessary role that they're playing but the next Force needs to sit outside of that
for: left / right polarization - transcending
comment
the term that I'm knocking around at the moment for you know something which isn't a green New Deal de growth is a 00:32:28 green Democratic Revolution
for: definition - green democratic revolution
definition: green democratic revolution
for: climate crisis - voting for global political green candidates, podcast - Planet Critical, interview - Planet Critical - James Schneider - communications officer - Progressive International, green democratic revolution, climate crisis - elite control off mainstream media
podcast: Planet Critical
title: Overthrowing the Ruling Class: The Green Democratic Revolution
summary
have you seen this amazing interview from years ago with um what's he called Andrew 00:50:57 marsky yes and um uh and he says and um Andrew Maron says in a incredibly pompous way you know journalist with a stroppy disputatious
for: media bias - insight of journalist questions
media insight
the French Revolution happened in Denmark
for: social tipping points - political, quote - french Revolution - Denmark
quote.
well I'll start with two extremely optimistic points
for: answer to above question
answer : two answers
how do we organize a green de Democratic Revolutio
for: question - how do we organise a green democratic revolution when power is so entrenched?
question
let's go back to focusing on like these forces that exist to undermine 00:46:38 popular power um and maintain the the the ruling class
for,: question - maintaining ruling elites
question
the overwhelming majority of people support are not on the political agenda which is why this whole the idea that there is a center in politics is a complete fiction
for: quote - there is no center, it's a fiction, quote - James Schneider - Progressive International
quote
you can see it all the time it's 00:41:37 unbelievably it's unbelievably painful we look at all the our institutions
for: polycrisis - entrenched institutional bias, examples - entrenched institutional bias - bank macro economic policy - lobbyist
paraphrase
the changes that we need to make to our political system go well well 00:41:10 well beyond like having a better P party in changing who some of the MPS are and so on and so forth because it is structurally set up to insulate the ruling class from popular pressure
for: quote - political system change is required
quote
it is so difficult to get people excited about politics because they've sort of seen through the two- party system now where it's just like the same thing over and 00:38:25 over
for: green democratic revolution - critique
critique: green democratic revolution
paraphrase
meanwhile, the right is doubling down and making itself a firmer force
comment
our posture as well 00:36:59 has to be like totally anti- systemic we're not coming in to try to get some reforms to try to amarate just some of the some of the crisis 00:37:11 because we it's actually not possible
for: anti-system posture - required for mass support
reference
I you know think this is important in the kind of what the left postur is to regime break to system breakdown which 00:35:27 experiencing has to be anti-regime let
for: Lessons from COVID
quote
paraphrase
normal crisis in the system for most people is degrowth like 00:22:22 most people's living standards don't rise that's so it's it's divorced from the experience that that most people have in in in the UK you know where we're where we're speaking from wages at 00:22:36 the same level they were in 2005 rents aren't bills aren't your groceries aren't but your pay is so um you know most people have been experiencing 00:22:49 degrowth that's the comms reason why it's bad
for: degrowth - criticism - bad communication, suggestion - growth and degrowth simultaneously
suggestion
we're on the highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator and he completely right 00:33:33 apart from one thing right
for: climate crisis - analogy
climate crisis - analogy
we need to implement emergency 00:30:58 plans to transform th some things very fast and those are the highest order things within the within the world system so that 00:31:11 is um most importantly energy food production and debt write Downs those are those are the things and there are other things as well but
for: priorities - rapid whole system change
priorities: rapid whole system change
couldn't that be one way to like quite dramatically Force regime change then if if you could Implement degrowth and kind of trigger a because this is a 00:30:21 a lot of what they talk about as well degrowth Scholars like it's either degrowth a controlled degrowth or an uncontrolled Financial collapse so couldn't that then force a change in the 00:30:32 financial system
why do we need 00:24:19 to have economic expansion because there's 300 trillion dollar of debt based on future expansion so if we don't have future expansion that's $300 trillion 00:24:33 worth of debt which isn't going to be repaid entirely which means total financial crisis and so on and so right I say it is baked into the system
for: adjacency - debt - growth
adjacency between
there are sort of 00:17:41 two broad um programs or ideas that deal with this or that try to engage with this issue they have pockets of support 00:17:52 one is the idea of a green New Deal or a global Green New Deal and the other one is degrowth and and I don't think that either of those work for different reasons
for: James Hansen - interview - Paul Beckwith, Global warming in the pipeline
Summary
Conclusion: Supporting our hypotheses, we identify a general trend that social marginalization is associated with less system-justification. Those benefitting from the status quo (e.g., healthier, wealthier, less lonely) were more likely to hold system-justifying beliefs. However, some groups who are disadvantaged within the existing system reported higher system-justification—suggesting that system oppression may be a key moderator of the effect of social position on system justification.
for: system justification theory, status quo bias, question - lack of commensurate action
summary
Question
the oppression of gender minority and non-white individuals very likely increases the costs of desisting from system-justifying beliefs as is the case when minority political candidates are judged as more extreme compared to white and male candidates (69)—increasing the social sanctions (costs) for holding “extreme” views. These pressures can give rise to politics of respectability—which are used to deflect social pressures targeting one's identity (70, 71).
for: system justification theory - conformity bias
key insight
for: system justification theory, status quo bias
summary
for: social tipping point, STP, social tipping point - misapplication, social tipping points - 4 application errors
title: Social tipping points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse
date: Nov 17, 2022
abstract
we as a society do…. Stuff to get money
for: money - enabling transaction with strangers, adjacency - money - othering
adjacency between
softness is not the kind of thing that's generated in my brain okay 00:06:36 softness is a word that describes how I am currently interacting with a sponge it's a mistake to go looking in the brain to understand why I feel it is soft rather than hard because it lies in 00:06:48 what I'm doing and the same for these other accompanying fields thinking this way about softness is a way of escaping from the explanatory Gap 00:07:01 because it it's a way of escaping from the idea that we need to find a brain mechanism that's generating the softness
there may be a little bit of a mystery is in the quality of the redness of red or in this case the quality of the felt softness and this is where 00:04:56 sensory motor theory has an original contribution
for: Deep Humanity - business transition, DH - business transition
summary
In the past seven years alone I’ve given more than 500 talks and interviews about regeneration, and I sense the same fear again and again in most leaders. A fear of fully embracing a regenerative transition because it means they need to let go of most of what they have been taught is good business and leadership. They need to surrender to a landscape that doesn’t have a fixed toolbox, process-plans, checklists and business models and it scares the shit out of most executives.
he initiators
for: SRG TPF community initiator program
Common objective on a local level, like a specific problemNeighbourhood cooperation to build better relationships, without a specific objectiveAn individual takes the initiative to build a neighbourhood community, driven by a visionof a better world.
for: question - SONEC alignment to earth system boundaries
question
Different kinds of neighbourhoods
for: neighboourhood typologies
paraphrase
If, in addition, the necessary financial resources are lacking, the citizens will not be able to adequatelymeet expectations either
for: community participation - challenges
comment
For citizens,neighbourhoods are the place to live. This is the level at which they get to know each other, build re-lationships and take action to achieve political and socio-ecological change 23
for: neighborhood cooperation - challenges, community cooperation - challenges
comment
references
Local governments are also very aware of theseproblems.
for: local government - citizen conflicts, community group autonomy,
comment
Although there are manyinitiatives, they have not yet reached the scale necessary to respond effectively to the crises; they oftenlack a stable and facile organisation of collaboration and a clearly structured process of joint decisionmaking
for: key insight - community capacity
key insight - community capacity
At the same time, more andmore people are demanding a different political culture, transparent decision-making and real partici-pation in political decision-making processes 18 . The crises challenge us to develop and implement newforms of solidarity, citizenship and political action in the sense of a vita activa
The multiple crises that we and our children are facing right now are real and well documented byacademics and scientists alike.
SoNeC opens up a viable approach for real citizen participation with a potentially major impact toaddress the needs of the people in a certain neighbourhood facing the ever increasing climate andcurrent democratic crisis.
for: suggestion - SONEC and commons transition plan
suggestion
The basic SoNeC framework is designed with European values, e.g. tolerance, mutual respect,non-discrimination, solidarity and gender equality in mind.
for: SONEC - expanding globally, Global North South sister city program
comment
three well-developed and proven concepts
for SONEC - foundational pillars
paraphrase: SONEC foundational pillars
SoNeC is a framework for citizen participation.
for: transition - at local level, community owned production cooperatives
comment
for: plan B, climate futures, dystopian future, civilization collapse
title: If We’ve Lost the Climate War, What’s Plan B?
date: Nov 22, 2023
summary
system justification theory
It may be that the climate denialists, even in the 1980s, knew this very well. They denied global heating because they saw it meant social and political change on a scale never seen before. An economic system that had made millions rich and billions at least comfortable would collapse. For those who’ve benefited from the system, death is less frightening than poverty.
for: quote - staying under 1.5 Deg C
quote: staying under 1.5 Deg C
Cutting emissions back to bring global temperatures down to 1.5 C or 2 C would be the equivalent of shutting down China, the United States, India, Japan and Russia.
for: stats - staying under 1.5 Deg C
stats: staying under 1.5 Deg C
for: remote COP29 project proposal - demographic data
comment
for: futures - neo-Venetian crypto-networks, Global Chinese Commons, GCC, cosmolocal, coordiNation, somewheres, everywheres, nowheres, Global System One, Global System Two, Global System Three, contributory accounting, fourth sector, protocol cooperative, mutual coordination economics
summary
The next step would be a convergence with the commons of physical production, the cosmo-local urban commons and p2p hardware companies, so that crypto governance becomes a mutual coordination infrastructure for more and more human citizens.
for: quote - ethereum - milestone - integration with physical production commons
quote
If the Somewheres are the locally rooted people, and the Nowheres are digital nomads who have lost their connection to such local communities, then the Everywhere’s are those that are able to connect, and enrich the local through their connection with the global.
protocol cooperatives
for: definition - protocol cooperative, question - protocol cooperative
question: protocol cooperative
?
a ‘fourth sector’ model, based on decentralized peer production, and new hybrid forms of organization
for: fourth sector
comment
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GCC
for: acronyms - GCC, suggestion
suggestion: acronyms
If the 19th cy
they strongly support the development of ‘public goods’ for the Ethereum and crypto networks
for: China - support for public goods for Ethereum
research
It may not be a surprise that they are Chinese, as China is now once again at the center of world civilization, taking back its historical place, while it is also the first ‘biophysical civilization’, in which the aim of Ecological Civilization is one of the two central ideals of development.
GCC
Humans however, do not just need bread and butter, they need identity and belonging just as much, if not more, hence the emergence of what I believe we can best call, at this moment of history, ‘CoordiNations’.
Distributed Autonomous Organizations
for: question - DAO book?
question: DAO book?
Indeed, fortunately, digital technology has also changed material consumption and production. 2008, the global financial crisis which created mass youth unemployment in many different countries and urban areas, saw the emergence and then exponential growth, of what is called the ‘urban commons’.
Once Satoshi Nakamoto published his white paper on Bitcoin on the P2P Foundation Ning forum
for: adjacency - Satoshi Nakamoto white paper - bitcoin - P2P Foundation Ning forum
adjacency between
ecological ‘thermo-dynamic’ accounting, which would allow for context-based sustainability
Contributory accounting
for: open source - contributory accounting, Indyweb - contributory accounting, open source accounting - indyweb - provenance
comment
noosphere, the sphere of interconnected cultural exchange and cooperation,
for: noosphere, symbolosphere, meaningverse, comparison - noosphere, symbolosphere, meaningverse
comparison: noosphere, symbolosphere, menaingverse
the GS2 transition was more painful than GS1, and so very likely, the GS3 transition will be harder
for: GS3, Global System Three transition, mutual coordination economics
paraphrase
This dissatisfaction with the dominant role of the state, or similar dissatisfaction by what others consider the failing market-based neoliberal order, may now go into different directions
for: different possible socio-economic-political futures
comment
Global System Two
Global System One
Peter Pogany, Rethinking the World
for: book - Rethinking the World
book: Rethinking the World
Those concepts of education, media, parenting, political economy etc are all human constructs — classifications or categories we created to help us think about things in bite-sized chunks. They are the products and tools of analysis, reductions of reality. They’re all orange-side techniques and artefacts!
for: question - kariotic flow - examples of purple side
question: kariotic flow - purple side examples
By consistently avoiding and devaluing the activities of the purple-side Archetypes, we have effectively disconnected the brakes, and disconnected our civilisation from reality.The orange-side
for: salience mismatch, question - provide examples - kariotic flow
question: Can Kylie provide an example of some damaging right side activities and how it could be corrected by including the corresponding left side activities?
for: kariotic flow
summary
While I appreciate the general idea, the explanation in terms of the 6 parts of the kariotic flow wheel is not clear. I found a strong salience mismatch
concrete examples would go a long way to bridge the explanatory gap between the salience landscape of the author and that of the reader
So Kairotic Flow doesn’t analyse and it doesn’t bring together the results of analysis. Instead, it focuses on relevant scope as a whole, in context, allowing patterns to emerge into our awareness, without taking things apart in the first place.
for: critique - without analysis, kariotic flow - emptiness, kariotic flow - entanglement
critique: without analysis
To restate another way, every single time we try to navigate real life (including the metacrisis) by focusing our attention on human-created constructs like economy and education, we automatically double down on dissociating from reality. As Daniel says, it is reductionistic to do this. That’s the nice way of putting it. Losing touch with reality is also the literal definition of psychotic.
for: critique - language
question: navigating without language
Culturally, and throughout our global civilisation’s systems and structures, we systemically and continuously overemphasise the innovating-constructing-standardising Archetypal activities on the orange side of the Kairotic Flow cycle, while devaluing and avoiding the nurturing-decomposing-reorienting activities of the Archetypes on the purple side of the cycle.This might not sound like much, but the consequences are profound.
for: kariotic flow - metacrisis explanation, question - salience
question: salience
Unfortunately, whenever we attempt to orient thought, choice and action using these human-created concepts, we’re effectively navigating towards the centre or essence of the concept’s definition, and as an inevitable consequence are simultaneously orienting away from reality-as-it-is, as a whole. (The map is not the territory!)
for: critique - language constructs
critique: language constructs
Kairotic Flow focuses not on problems or solutions, but on responding as wisely as possible to continually changing life conditions.
for: terminology - problems - solutions
terminology: problems - solutions
for: critique - of Simon Michaux
comment
for: visualizations - sea level rise at 3 Deg C
comment
if we look at Humanity in in 2023 so as I said in the beginning we've accumulated enormous power that's absolutely true but what do we do with 00:32:37 this power uh we destroy so many other species and habitats and are now endangering the the balance of the whole ecological system and the survival of 00:32:51 our own civilization and it's not just the ecological damage we now have an entire men to choose from of how we might destroy ourselves
I admire Jared Diamond he was my kind of role model when I wrote sapiens I remember reading his book gun J and 00:28:29 steel when I was in university and it kind of blew my mind open that hey you can actually write such books you can write meaningful uh uh uh books based on 00:28:41 good science which Encompass thousands of years
in many parts of the world you see a kind of conservative suicide that conservatives are abandoning their kind of traditional role to slow down and conserve 00:26:09 institutions and traditions and so forth and they still call themselves conservatives but they become this kind of new radical party which is more about ignoring traditions and destroying 00:26:23 institutions and then it becomes the job of liberals to be the audience of the institutions
what you see in a lot of modern politics is this delicate dance between conservatives and 00:24:40 liberals which I think that uh uh for many generations they agreed on the basics their main disagreement was about the pace that both conservatives and 00:24:52 liberals they basically agree we need some rules and also we need the ability to to change the rules but the conservatives prefer a much slower Pace
for: quote - social constructs - liberals and conservatives, social norms - liberals and conservatives, insight - social norms
in other words
insight
adjacency between
does your scholarship suggest why so many societies do that rather than 00:20:09 saying maybe we start with a Declaration of Human Rights today maybe we write a new one from scratch based on what we know today um because it's very difficult to reach an agreement between a lot of 00:20:21 people and also you know you need to base a a a a real Society is something something extremely complex which you need to base on empirical experience 00:20:34 every time that people try to create a completely new social order just by inventing some Theory it ends very badly you need on yes you do need the ability 00:20:46 to change things a long time but not too quickly and not everything at once so most of the time you have these founding principles and shr find in this 00:20:58 or that text also orally it doesn't have to be written down and at least good societies also have mechanisms to change it but you have to start from some kind 00:21:12 of of of of social consensus and some kind of of social experience if every year we try to invent everything from scratch then Society will just collapse
for: insight - creating new social norms is difficult
insight
analogy: changing social norms, sports
the question is often do people acknowledge that say the basic rules of their society were created out of the human imagination or are there some kind 00:15:49 of objective thing that came from outside let's say from God you look for instance at the history of slavery so you know the 10 Commandments in the in the 10th commandment there is an 00:16:02 endorsement of slavery the 10th commandment says that you should not covet your neighbor's H uh wife or ox or field or 00:16:14 slaves implying that there is nothing wrong with holding slaves it's only wrong if you CET your neighbor's slaves then God is angry with you now because the Ten Commandments uh don't 00:16:27 acknowledge that they were created by humans they don't have any mechanism to amend them and therefore we still have the tenth commandment and nobody has the power to change the to to strike out 00:16:40 slavery from The Ten Commandments now the US Constitution in contrast as everybody points out it was written partly by slaveholders and also endorses 00:16:52 slavery but the genius of the American Founders The Genius of the American institution is that it acknowledges its own that it's the result of of of human 00:17:05 creation it starts with with the people not with I am your God and therefore it includes a mechanism to amend itself
for: insight - holy vs human scriptures
comment
there are good stories and bad stories uh good stories I mean this is very on a very very simplistic level but good stories 00:13:23 benefit people and bad stories can create you know Wars and genocides and and the most terrible crimes in history were committed in the name of some fictional story people believed very few 00:13:38 Wars in history are about objective material things people think that we fight like wolves or chimpanzees over food and territory this is not the case 00:13:52 at least not in the modern world if I look for instance at my country which is at present in at War the Israeli Palestinian conflict is not really about food and territory there is enough food 00:14:04 between the Jordan and Mediterranean to feed everybody there is enough territory to build houses and schools for everybody but you have two conflicting stories or more than two conflicting 00:14:17 stories in the minds of different people and they can't agree on the story they can't find a common story that everybody would be happy with and this is the the Deep source of the conflict
for: stories - consequences of good and bad stories, inisight - war and genocide - when people violently disagree on stories,
insight
what you're referring to is the idea that people come together and through language culture and story they have narratives that then create their own realities like the 00:12:04 sociologist abely the sociologist wi Thomas said if people think people believe things to be real then they are real in their consequences
for: Thomas Theorem, The definition of the situation, William Isaac Thomas, Dorothy Swain Thomas, definition - Thomas Theorem, definition - definition of the situation, conflicting belief systems - Thomas theorem, learned something new - Thomas theorem
definition: Thomas Theorem
If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.[1]
In other words, the interpretation of a situation causes the action. This interpretation is not objective. Actions are affected by subjective perceptions of situations. Whether there even is an objectively correct interpretation is not important for the purposes of helping guide individuals' behavior.|
key insight: polarization
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the modern economic system the modern Financial system is based on the same 00:11:02 principle the most successful fiction ever created is not any God it's money
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this God is very clearly a 00:09:27 human invention now it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad and it doesn't certainly doesn't mean it's unimportant the fictional stories humans invent are some of the most powerful forces in history 00:09:40 and very often they can also be positive forces there is nothing inherently wrong in fiction
for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari, quote - nothing wrong with fictions
quote -This God is very clearly a human invention. Now it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. It doesn't certainly mean its unimportant.
even religious people would openly tell 00:08:19 you that all the gods in the world are fictional stories invented by humans except one not my God my God is is true but Zeus and Shiva and whatever other 00:08:33 gods other people have they are fictions invented by humans and um I think that again the scientific consensus is is is just the same view with an addition of 00:08:46 one additional God my God is also like Zeus and and and like Jupiter and like Thor and like all these others it is also a fictional story created by humans
for: narratives - science and religion, stories - science and religion, symbolosphere, meaningverse, multi-meaningverse
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the Catholics are much more straightforward about these things they to everything so you know chimpanzees for instance according to Catholic dogma chimpanzees don't have souls when they die they 00:06:36 don't go to chimpanzee heaven or chimpanzee hell they just disappear now where are Neals in this scheme and if you think about this kid whose mother is a sapiens but whose father is a 00:06:49 neandertal so only his mother has a soul but his father doesn't have a soul and what does it mean about the kid does the kid have half a soul and if you say okay okay okay okay neander had Souls then 00:07:02 you go back a couple of million years and you have the same problem with the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees again you have a family a mother one child is the ancestor of 00:07:16 chimpanzees the other child is the an is our ancestor so one child has a soul and the other child doesn't have a soul
for: question - Catholic church claim - humans have a souls but other creatures do not
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we need to understand this deep inheritance within us in order to to to understand our emotions our fears our behavior in 00:04:50 the 21st century
for: quote - deep inheritance of evolutionary adaptations
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we are certainly special I mean 00:02:57 no other animal rich the moon or know how to build atom bombs so we are definitely quite different from chimpanzees and elephants and and all the rest of the animals but we are still 00:03:09 animals you know many of our most basic emotions much of our society is still run on Stone Age code
for: stone age code, similar to - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor, evolutionary psychology - examples, evolutionary paradox of modernity, evolution - last mile link, major evolutionary transition - full spectrum in modern humans, example - MET - full spectrum embedded in modern humans
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Examples: humans embody full spectrum of METs in our evolutionary past
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I wrote a poem in the comment section of this video:
and institute intentional forms of non-democracy
The bottom line (below):
Globally, 70% of today’s urban growth (PDF) occurs outside the formal planning process.
for: interesting fact - urban growth and slums, quote - urban growth and slums
interesting fact: urban growth and slums
quote: urban growth and slums
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Why do we feel so dissatisfied with the Western way? I think it’s because we have valued financial capital over social capital.
for: The Great Simplifcation, Nate Hagen, The Great Complexification, The Great Alienation, three great separations
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In the West, social welfare guarantees everyone a place to sleep, food, and free education.
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Energy transitions can happen without the engagement of the oil and gas industry, but the journey to net zero will be more costly and difficult to navigate if they are not on board.
for: energy transition without willing participation from the fossil fuel industry
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Economies that are heavily reliant on oil and gas revenues face some stark choices and pressures in energy transitions.
for: stats - oil and gas - steep drop in revenues of fossil fuel producer economies
stats: oil and gas - steep drop in revenues of fossil fuel reliant economies
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excessive expectations and reliance on CCUS
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A productive debate about the oil and gas industry in transitions needs to avoid two common misconceptions. The first is that transitions can only be led by changes in demand.
for: double bind - oil and gas industry committing to clean energy, oil and gas industry - Mexican standoff - SIMPOL
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For producers that choose to diversify and are looking to align with the aims of the Paris Agreement, our bottom-up analysis of cash flows in a 1.5 °C scenario suggests that a reasonable ambition is for 50% of capital expenditures to go towards clean energy projects by 2030, on top of the investment needed to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - required investments in clean energy
stats: oil and gas industry - required investments in clean energy
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Some 30% of the energy consumed in a net zero energy system in 2050 comes from low-emissions fuels and technologies that could benefit from the skills and resources of the oil and gas industry.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy
stats: oil and gas industry - repurposing for clean energy
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Many producers say they will be the ones to keep producing throughout transitions and beyond. They cannot all be right.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - fight for survival
stats: oil and gas industry - fight for survival
In a scenario that hits global net zero emissions by 2050, declines in demand are sufficiently steep that no new long lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are required. Some existing production would even need to be shut in. In 2040, more than 7 million barrels per day of oil production is pushed out of operation before the end of its technical lifetime in a 1.5 °C scenario.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - steep drop in production
stats - oil and gas industry - steep drop in production
The production, transport and processing of oil and gas results in just under 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. This is a huge amount, equivalent to all energy-related greenhouse gas emissions from the United States.
for: stats - oil and gas industry operational emissions
stats: oil and gas industry - operational emissions
Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - clean energy investments
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This new IEA report explores what oil and gas companies can do to accelerate net zero transitions and what this might mean for an industry which currently provides more than half of global energy supply and employs nearly 12 million workers worldwide.
for: stats - oil and gas industry - profit split, stats - oil and gas industry - reserves split
stats: oil and gas industry profit split
stats: oil and gas reserve splits
Oil and gas projects currently produce slightly higher returns on investment, but those returns are less stable.
stats - oil and gas vs clean energy returns
stats: oil and gas vs clean energy returns between 2010 and 2022
If all national energy and climate goals are reached, this value is lower by 25%, and by 60% if the world gets on track to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
for: stats - fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world
stats: fossil fuel industry - valuation in a 1.5 Deg C world
for: IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Fossil Fuel industry, IEA 2023 report - exec summary - Oil and Gas industry
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To align with a 1.5 °C scenario, these emissions need to be cut by more than 60% by 2030 from today’s levels and the emissions intensity of global oil and gas operations must near zero by the early 2040s.
The production, transport and processing of oil and gas results in just under 15% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions.
for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry
Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally.
for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry
stats - oil and gas industry
industry which currently provides more than half of global energy supply and employs nearly 12 million workers worldwide.
for: stats - oil and gas industry, stats - fossil fuel industry
stats - oil and gas industry
if governments deliver in full on their national energy and climate pledges, then oil and gas demand would be 45% below today's level by 2050 and the temperature rise could be limited to 1.7 °C. If governments successfully pursue a 1.5 °C trajectory, and emissions from the global energy sector reach net zero by mid-century, oil and gas use would fall by 75% to 2050.
for: Nationally Determined Contributions insufficient to meet 1.5 Deg C, NDC insufficient to meet 1.5 Deg C
stats: climate change - NDC
the overwhelming majority of our time is spent looking down and as we should have talked about in previous videos we really care about 00:03:57 the hinges that you place in your spine so if you're on a laptop or looking down on your phone there's generally a hinge that we put into our neck and keep it there for a period of time and that 00:04:09 section and it can be right at the top if we're looking at you we've down or it can be lowered down if we're hinging down a lot more towards more of a 90-degree angle the longer in those shapes and the average American at 00:04:22 least can sit you know 10 to 14 hours a day particularly in today's climate without raising an eyebrow it can be just a simple thing that we do and if that's sitting down looking down is a 00:04:33 constant thing then what happens is we take that overloaded tissue to bed and sleep is our recovery time
hypoglossal nerve stimulator
for: sleep apnea - treatment - surgical implant
treatment: sleep apnea
two Dental devices
for: sleep apnea - treatment - dental devices
treatment: sleep apnea
CPAP
if you've got atrial fibrillation which is an irregular heartbeat highly recommend testing for obstructive sleep apnea
when you have sleep apnea this is something that is called dipping and non-dipping people who have no apnea in the blue notice 00:07:11 what happens their blood pressures go down at nights here in the 3 A.M to 6 a.m goes down at night they're systolic and diastolic but the people who have apnea they don't get the benefit of that dipping they're not getting the benefit 00:07:25 of rest at night it's because of sympathetic nervous system activity
for: sleep apnea - blood pressure comparison, dipping vs nondipping
interesting fact: sleep apnea
in a normal person this is what their sympathetic nervous 00:06:45 system activity looks like and people with sleep apnea who are having these difficulties at night this is what their sympathetic nervous system looks like during the day when they're actually not having apnea it's because it's ramped up 00:06:57 and this is a problem that causes their blood pressure to not be able to relax
when we're looking here at sleep apnea we're looking at these bars here and you can see that people with 00:06:21 sleep apnea the most likely time for them to die is between midnight and six o'clock in the morning and you can imagine why that would be
for: stats - sleep apnea - most likely time to die
stats: sleep apnea
let's take a look at everything here before the purple line
for: sleep apnea - graph
graph: sleep apnea
sometimes this 00:04:37 can happen up to a hundred times in an hour that means at least once a minute or more maybe even twice a minute that this is happening you can expect that people are not going to get very good sleep with this
for: stats - sleep apnea cycle
stats: sleep apnea cycle
polysomnography
for: polysomnograph, oxygen saturation levels, graph - sleep apnea, sleep apnea - monitoring
description: sleep apnea oxygen saturation process
they wake up in 00:02:31 the morning with headaches they don't feel well rested they fall asleep very easily while not really being engaged or it could be very subtle things like fibromyalgia body aches low energy
for: sleep apnea - symptoms
symptoms: sleep apnea
typically men more than women when they gain weight tend to store fat in their tongue and so 00:01:55 their tongues will swell you can see that really nicely on MRI actually because fat shows up as basically white tissue on MRI the other thing is that men's Airways are larger and so because of the law of Laplace which we don't 00:02:07 have time to get into larger Airways are more collapsible and so they're easier to close off with pressure placed on the outside so that's why men are typically more at risk for obstructive sleep apnea 00:02:18 but women are also at risk for sleep apnea especially after menopause
for: sleep apnea - enlarged tongue in overweight men, sleep apnea - post menopause in women, sleep apnea - increased risk - overweight men, sleep apnea - increased risk - post menopause women
increased risk: sleep apnea