Sacred Economics and Climate with Charles Eisenstein
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Erik is joined by Charles Eisenstein (@ceisenstein) on this episode. He is the author of Climate: A New Story and The Ascent of Humanity, among others. They discuss: - The...
show moreThey discuss:
- The main thread that runs throughout Charles’s works.
- Why technological utopias and the age of leisure have been widely predicted but have never actually come about.
- How humanity shaping its environment has caused problems for humans, and why trying harder and harder to solve those problems has perpetuated them.
- Why the happiest people he meets are in less developed countries.
- What he sees as the limits to scientific inquiry.
- The ideal scale and scope of markets.
- What he would change about society if he could wave a wand.
- Whether the planet really needs “the economy to get going again” even though that seems to be what virtually every politician calls for.
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