In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris discusses:
- We’re Polluting & Depleting, For No Real Gain
- Why Shale Oil Reflects Our Wrongheadedness
- Time Is Fast Running Out Before The Real Consequences Arrive
- But There Are Many Ways To Do Things Better
This week Chris looks at the big picture: the planet’s resources and humanity’s mad dash to consume them. We are depleting millions-year-old treasures — which will never renew in our species’ future — while leaving poison and pollution behind in the effort.
Even if we only prioritize the well-being of those currently alive (screw those pesky future generations!), time is running out on us. Our current trajectory is having increasing negative repercussions, which will only intensify over the coming decades.
The silver lining to this is that we *can* be doing things better. We already have plenty of models for living regernatively. We just need to embrace them. But will we?
we see fossil fuels nosing over there in their overall energy deliverance to our species—which would be somewhere around the year 2030, maybe 2040, but let’s say somewhere in there. In other words, not that far away. It’s like 11 years, maybe 20 years from now—10 to 20 years, let’s call it that.
Then we’re going to have to make a lot of other prioritized decisions, and we’re not going to be able to simply say, “Well, we’ll just do 80 percent as much farming, and we’ll do 80 percent as much military spending, and we’ll do 80 percent as much educating,” and all that other stuff.
by nancybeck 
