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#2: Understanding Energy
To understand everything else, follow the molecules. You can't print them.
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#1: The Great Globalization is Ending
How the system has worked over the past 50 years and how it's breaking
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#10: We are living in a material world
Primer on raw materials: decarbonization, geopolitics, the mining & trading industry, and more.
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#15: The arcs of history
Polycrisis, historical cycles, and the opportunity to remake our world.
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#12. Moments to movements: The spectre of ideology
How do we translate protests and outrage into real, lasting change? How can we be better prepared as the global system withers? What is our role in…
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#11: Watt's the deal with renewable energy
We need more solar & wind. But are they really that cheap, clean, and green?
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#8. The Global Reserve Currency: US/Petro/Euro Dollar
Features of a reserve currency, who actually benefits from the US$, and the government-market nexus that runs the system.
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#5: Getting our monetary system right
An explainer on how governments & banks create money, what causes Global South debt crises, and what mainstream Econ gets wrong.
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#13: The electricity grid: A modern wonder of the world
Why the grid is at the heart of modern civilization, how it works (supply, transmission, and demand), and the major opportunities and threats as we race…
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#6: A sticky situation - our chronic oil dependence
Oil runs the world - let's understand it to move past it.
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#14: The decade of rolling (poly)crises
A look at the biggest events of 2023, things to look out for in 2024, and resources to be prepared for a tumultuous decade.
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#4: Money, myths, and debt
Understanding money is critical to the global system but the mainstream narrative gets it wrong.
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