Fossil fuels power our modern lives, and yet fossil fuels are also powering global warming. Because many of us lack the self-sufficient skills necessary to survive an extended power outage event, we are one thing and one thing only: vulnerable.
We have become over-reliant on the very thing that's destroying our planet. On today's show: Imagining the ways in which modern life, interpersonal connections, well-being and more would change in a hypothetical, fossil fuel-free world.
Here's a preview:
[6:00] We are so reliant on electricity that we are incapacitated without it. This is a problem!
[11:00] In the event of a 2-weeks plus outage, modernity would look a lot different
[24:00] Is minimalism late stage capitalism personified?
[28:00] Without fossil fuels, we'd be circular
[30:00] What research says with regard to the wellness benefits of working with our hands
Resources mentioned:
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath (by Ted Koppel)
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (via The New Yorker)
Episode #096: Why Self-Sufficiency Matters (with Kelly Morris)
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