We built this city on rock n roll! And cheap oil. And it’s currently running out… so what happens now? This week I chat with Nathan Surendran to get a foothold on the fossil fuel crisis (which is the Everything Crisis) and how we can keep our balance, together. Nathan is a systems thinker, recovering engineer, energy and security analyst, policy advisor, author of the Energy and Resilience substack and chair of the Wise Response society. He is also seriously kind, and provides so much practical, empowering advice in this convo, including:
Moving far far away from civilisation
The unsustainability of cities
Neurodivergence leading to deep research
The Energy Elephant in the room: WHAT AREN’T WE SEEING
Why oil (diesel) is the lifeblood of industrial society
Drawing down ancient sunlight 1 million times faster than it’s being recharged
Every calorie of food takes 10 calories of fossil fuels, oof
The Iran War
Why we can’t just switch to renewables
Right relationship with renewables
What are baseline standards of living?
Household appliance heroes for the energy descent
What is Energy Blindness?
Emotionally processing peak oil
One barrel of oil = 5 years of human labour (!)
Are we being gaslit about the situation in the strait?
The industrial system schools us to comply, not think
Why the rich aren’t as protected as they might think
Less affluent people are ahead of the game
What is mutual aid?
Un-pathologising co-dependence
Maori concepts of community care
Why we need danger from a mental health perspective
🧙♀️LINKY POOS 🧙♀️
Nathan on Substack ~ Energy and Resilience
Nathan’s home on the web
[doc] When The Trucks Stop ~ mutual aid guidelines
Wise Response on Substack
Jason Bradford ~ The Future Is Rural
Steve Keene
Ian McGilchrist
Charlie Hoyle
Nate Hagens
Steve Keen
Howard T Odum
📸 Photo credit: Jason Hosking
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