Weakest Links: Depletion, Supply Chains, and Trust | Frankly 71

[@Carbonbank]

Don’t Stop Nate!!! You’re one of the sanest thinkers around - keeping us on track to hold space for the people around us / imparting mental strength and critical thinking skills. Potatoes have shown their first leaves. Stay safe Dude.

[@harry664]

Second this!

[@TennesseeJed]

@@Carbonbank Hear, hear!

[@TheFlyingBrain.]

I third. This podcast is a lifeline for enlightened intellect in a darkening age. Gratitude to you and the team, Nate.

[@anthonytroia1]

are you in Australia or New Zeland by chance?

[@patrickkelly1195]

Hi Nate - another great Frankly, thanks. You never let me down. On the subject of future Franklys, some time ago you talked about ideas for future episodes and mentioned that you wanted to do a Frankly entitled 'How might I be wrong?' (Presumably, with reference to your Great Simplification thesis and associated predictions). I recall thinking that that would be a really interesting, and perhaps important, episode and was looking forward to hearing it. The reason it resonated so deeply with me is that my wife and I gave up our careers at 53 / 54, and moved our family to rural France to establish an off-grid smallholding. This was our response to our views of the metacrisis and conviction that we will witness the collapse / decline / dismantling of the systems that provide us with all of those services and material 'benefits' of modern civilisation. Despite my own strong conviction, not a day goes by that I don't doubt the views, beliefs and assumptions that underpin that conviction, especially when I witness all of those around me living without the faintest glimmer of dread and reacting so quizzically on those rare ocassions when my own views emerge through our conversations. It's natural to doubt one's beliefs, I suppose - especially when those beliefs have lead to actions that are so impactful to my family (in both positive and not so positive ways). I'm not asking you to somehow validate my personal decisions of course, only the passage of time can do that, but I think your 'How might I be wrong?' Frankly could be a really useful vehicle for my own deliberations. I know where my own doubts lie and I'm interested to see whether they align with yours. Can I ask that you maintain the aspiration to revisit that idea someday?

[@thegreatsimplification]

Yes. My own weakest link is “time”. But your suggestion is on the list!

[@wvhaugen]

Let me be the first one to validate your personal decisions. Well done! My partner and I sold the farm and moved to rural southern France in 2018. I was 68 and she 67. We still grow food to give away and I still do crop landrace research. But I am getting tired so will drop production down to a quarter acre or less next year. Good luck to you. The locals may be more responsive in the future.

[@lizgarson321]

I have done likewise, and am similarly confounded by people who appear to have no dread of the future. Your suggestion is a great one, and I see Nate has it on his list. Definitely a Frankly to look out for.

[@Enrico.Rustico]

I woud love to thear that episode aswell, as me and many friends struggle with our paths for the future. Us all being around 23-24yrs old, we have the notion that moving to the countryside in an off-grid manner sound very reasonable. Me personally, I am getting more conviced of this idea as I have traveld some distant places and FELT the resilience and sufficiency of these Nepalese, Morroccan and Mapuche mountain people. Still, there is no money in my pocket and to buy any land in Europe (where I am from), in this continent where every piece of land is part of the banks gamble, I am not able to. So here I sit, studying agriculture at a university that teaches us, that we will benefit from climate change harvest wise (by using some superficial climate analogy models, comparing pre-1.5 sicily with post-1.5 middle europe and assuming that business will just go on as usual and higher CO2+radiation+longer seasons will provide for us). I see the Amazon burning and this continent first drying off, then being flooded. i see the "ignorance"/not-knowing of ppls around me. That makes it hard to study (or stay sane), with the tought in mind, that money comes with the MSc in some years... just in time with the next climate catastrophy... Sooooo yea pls share with us some food for thought to challenge some assumption and double-check them^^

[@dereksnyder_4244]

@@Enrico.Rusticoenrico, I don’t have much to contribute but I want to validate what you’re saying. Most westerners don’t realize it yet, but we need evolution in plant science and agriculture above all else! You are ahead of your time, and that makes you right on time. Keep spirit, thank you for contributing to your field-it matters.

[@jjuniper274]

My immediate reaction to events in the Middle East was #1 this was an immense supply chain compromise. #2 Trust in manufacturing and supply chain integrity had been broken. #3 What else has been infiltrated and compromised?

[@literalghost929]

Not just that, also kinda normalizing taarrar issms & assassinations too... Who's next? Scary stuff...

[@altbinhax]

China will benefit as a supplier to "global majority" countries; Huawei is already supplying telecoms through out Africa. Silicon Valley will experience some consequences going forward.

[@madameblatvatsky]

How many devices have now circulated outside Lebanon?

[@pluribus]

"I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. People are gonna say what the hell is going on. It's just too nuts." - Terence McKenna

[@literalghost929]

I don't really see 'weird', I see worse though. Pretty much everywhere. Can't think of a single thing which will get better for us Westerners in the future.

[@pluribus]

John Liu's Commonland is the way. I have spoken.

[@trenomas1]

Thanks for the update. It seems more and more like corporations and world powers and moving toward endgames.

[@johncarter1150]

Harsh reality.... Trying not to slip back into fuzzy delusions. Difficult being a conscious interactor in the present. Stepping outside into the warm sunlight, taking a deep breath, feeling the cool morning breeze on skin, simply living for today. Thanks for presenting, Nate!

[@therealdesidaru]

And leave your phone at home.

[@johncarter1150]

​@therealdesidaru ,good advice friend, better idea. Put it in a plastic box and place it in the middle of my open field under an umbrella, LOL! You never know!

[@therealdesidaru]

@@johncarter1150 I actually rarely bring my phone into a store. I hate taking it in the car, but now-a-days, it's nice to have some way to get help. If I weren't so old and feeble, I wouldn't take it in the car and just leave it. Some people, if they don't hear from me because my phone is off or gone cold for a few days, they panic and hunt me down!

[@johncarter1150]

I guess I'm more lucky than most, Don't go in stores but once a week if that. Leave the phone in my old truck. Take care have the best life!

[@therealdesidaru]

@@johncarter1150 Thank you! I have! I've had an exceptional life. I'm thankful to still be around and apologies for voting Republican (except Trump) all my life although I think they just sped up the inevitable the process of elimination.

[@nelsonfrench4884]

Nate, please don't stop sounding the alarm, sharing your intellect, educating us all with clarity, about the precarious state of systems level fragility. We are indeed all in this together.

[@themanroberts]

I love your work and am very grateful for it as have learned so much from you and all your contributors about matters very close to my heart. As somebody who has educated themselves on issues in the Middle East over the past year (being unable to get a clear grasp of the situation through the regular media), if you ever had time to read one book on the topic I recommend The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (around 250 pages) by Rashid Khalidi. It is extremely well researched and easy to read and digest. Turns out it’s not that people in the Middle East just don’t get on, it’s much more due to the impact of Imperialism imposed by both my country (UK) and yours (USA) over the 20th & 21st centuries. Thanks for all that you do, it is appreciated and has a growing impact (I’m certainly sharing what I have learnt!)

[@Rosemountainfarm]

Thank you Nate, you are appreciated!

[@russtaylor2122]

Speaking of trust, i know you won't betray my trust in you to analyse then let us have the unvarnished truth as you see it. Thanks, Nate. Get well soon.

[@danielfaben5838]

Great topic. As things simplify, distressed individuals have many ways to act. The first actions are numbing and self destruction. So many people are going to be losers and will try to relieve or even end their suffering. Then there are those who want others to suffer with them, the spiteful ones who will blame everyone and everything. Guns and bombs and poison and suicide by cops and road rage and dreams of martyrdom: these things likely will become increasingly commonplace. We think we are rational. Such a laugh riot.

[@dandilion62]

thank you Nate!!! You register 0% on my bullshit detector

[@johnmitchell8925]

Great talk Nate. The world's going down in flames 🥶🥳

[@JulieTorres-qe2ls]

Thank you for the questions

[@coeliblue]

Really important insights and caveats, Nate, thanks! I'd already decided after your last talk with Simon Michaux to keep my Samsung Note 9 until it was no longer servicable... I've had it since Halloween 2018, which I assume predates virtually all of the kind of malice you were taking about... So this is now, indeed, my 'forever phone' - for better or worse. Looking forward to all those coming "Frankly"!

[@rapauli]

Key, important words -- thank you.

[@SeegerInstitute]

Nate, what if we were to reframe this entire conversation in the form of capital. Most of what you mentioned as things are in decline traditionally could be looked at as forms of capital including personal capital human capital social capital natural capital etc. It all really comes down to a financial system, which is evolved to be diametrically opposed to the health and well-being of people communities non-life And planetary well-being now and into the future. If we can through introducing a new narrative, inspire a parallel system upon which capitalism can reflect and evolve, persuade people of the validity of all of these forms of capital perhaps we can incentivize a transition to a new form of capitalism, the human endeavor more into alignment with the future well-being of life. I think we are in agreement that a consciousness raising experience at the species level will be necessary to get out of this mess. I believe that falling in love with life through regenerative, agriculture and animal husbandry is a pathway forward and incentivizing wealthy people to invest in incubators to help assist a transition to a decentralized future based on a greatly reduced material and energy footprint might be a leverage point. Keep up the good work.

[@TobyThaler]

Excellent.

[@bobcva3627]

I'm not sure where I first heard it, but I find the saying "humanity has proved itself very clever but not very wise" helpful in framing so much of what we're facing. What the Israelis did was very clever but not wise for sure--Pandora has many boxes and they've opened a new one.

[@isamkamel]

Three steps in advance thinking! Great insights!

[@ricos1497]

Isn't this just, in essence, a more explicit and crude version of things like the opium wars, or the export (from China) of tiktok (the US social media being no better of course)? Is the exploding of electronic equipment worse than the spreading of addictive material? The latter, undermining trust in information and the truth, the former undermining the physical supply chain?

[@ekisola17]

It’s not just pagers and mobile phones. Even solar panels and other civilian appliances, used by civilians for civilian application…

[@literalghost929]

Was this confirmed?

[@jwc449]

nate hagens has a 9000-incher No but I really love Nate and his channel is one of the best at examining the systemic issues affecting the near future and best ways to minimize human and biosphere suffering as the Anthropocene continues.

[@HammerinWA]

Thank you for your work Nate. I’m seeing more research that global warming is going to be much worse than the worst case scenario. Frankly this?

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

I have a battery powered lawn mower charged by solar panels. Nice to know I’m putting my life on the line every time I mow the grass. Maybe I’ll go back to using a scythe.

[@montypalmer4556]

Can the good people find ANY way to win against the bad people? How could cooperation work well enough to save humanity?

[@wvhaugen]

Nope. The way to win is not to play.

[@megacancer3426]

Spike protein in your veins is sort of like a pager in your pocket.

[@johnmitchell8925]

😂😮

[@shelbzillathrilla]

The spike protein from the virus or the vaccine?

[@TennesseeJed]

☮️

[@michlwezenngraon7487]

How is Frank? We want to see him!

[@jessieadore]

Interesting you honed in on this topic. I think it will only cause more people to refrain from updating their phone. This will have ripple effects into Apple and Android’s bottom line over the next year as distrust for towards both leaders and supply chains grows

[@thegreatsimplification]

Yes- this may have many longer term downstream effects- the majority of them psychological- but not all

[@maxheadrom3088]

Mr. Hagens, I really like your videos - I just watched the whole interview with the ocean physicist and it was wonderful. Your preoccupation with supply chain disruption is something I had not thought about but I completely agree with you. Just one observation: the idea that Jews and Muslims have been fighting for 1,000 years is, even in hyperbole, not correct. This is a 20th century problem.

[@thegreatsimplification]

Thanks for correction . I meant religious wars/violence in Middle East

[@Gordon-269]

Ditto here Nate. You clearly have no knowledge about Middle East history. If you had a neighbor hell-bent on murdering you, you would have a whole different comprehension of the universe. OK so you recorded on wednesday and had no idea of how the pager and walkie talkies things played out.

[@squeaker19694]

In the Quaran mohammad talks alot about hating on and killing Jews because they didn't want to convert to Islam. I thought I'd read it to understand Moslems better and was quite horrified by What I read.

[@patac0]

Hey Nate 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@steveberkson3873]

Thank You,Nate(if I may be so familiar),for another level headed oratory. My para-sympathetic system activated again the other day when I heard that a second african nation was going to execute,cull,hundreds of large wild mammals for food and water issues for their populace. Really got me. A very bad sign. It hurt me. I’ve seen no other news on this.

[@thegreatsimplification]

I saw it too. Same reaction (fyi sympathetic not parasympathetic)

[@steveberkson3873]

@@thegreatsimplification Right,right,my self-edit sank too. Thanks

[@A3Kr0n]

♪♪ ...Riders in the storm...♪♪

[@coweatsman]

Deglobalisation is a national security necessity for every country.

[@literalghost929]

Another big one for 'us' is that the US is losing its hegemony, and the balance of exploiter and exploited is slowly shifting, being tad bit more equitable. Adding to inflation, increase cost due to likely rising energy cost... Gonna be rough!

[@shamirkeren3954]

please talk with david wengrow,as to different perspectives,on human social structures.

[@leightonwatkins9486]

money isnt "printed" we are not in the 1920s and money has no inhernet value ..its only the tax gives it value ...its digts on computer screens....

[@Jorge-no5em]

Nate, a request. Interview with 1- engineer Alister Hamilton and 2- engineer Louis Arnoux. Thanks!

[@nawfelbengherbia8302]

I'm guessing Louis Arnoux will talk bombastically about the same vage and unrealised ideas he's been vagely talking about for years... I hope he proves me wrong though.

[@johnbanach3875]

How about the engineers at Purdue who have invented the super-white, super-reflective paint/coating?? That seems like a revolutionary (yet totally benign) technology to me and almost a game-changer.

[@57stapler]

Folks with security concerns have been distrustful of supply chains for a very long time. Although never on this scale, this is not the first time someone has been assassinated with a compromised personal electronic device. For the rest of us, everything is a potentially deadly hazard, we all just hope it won't happen all at once. The blender in your kitchen may possess an explosion risk, but it's probably gonna get someone else first. With respect to general supply chains vs. an internationally coordinated effort, why would someone want to compromise a major intelligence effort to blow up my microwave oven? With respect to a likely more common compromised device stealing data, this happens WAY more times accidentally than intentionally. Interesting to me is the possibility that Israel is not responsible for this, in part or entirely, and that the relationships in the region are way more complicated than I can imagine.

[@polymathpark]

bump

[@Damnthematrix]

Hi Nate, can you post links about Exxon's 15% depletion rate?

[@thegreatsimplification]

Always in show notes!

[@Starclimber]

Built-in catastrophic failure mode is a real concern. Back in my 20's, I used to dream up awful scenarios, and not share them due to fears they'd fall into the wrong hands and be utilized for harm. (I was a smart nobody, a bit paranoid, so this fear was pretty silly) That said, and game theory being on my side, what's stopping Intel et al from pre-loading chips with self-destruct modes for devices such as satellites, phones, security systems...by which I mean failure to function at critical moments, not 'chip/battery/etc' goes boom. Y'all can fill in the multitude of blanks.

[@allonesame6467]

Marcellus pull-back in northern PA due to dropping prices. And on another subject: geology. What changes in the core effect magnetic grid, effect weather? effect on people?

[@JeffCaplan313]

I'm a "critical resource" in my narcisstic bosses supply chain of attention. 😭😭😭

[@thunderstorm6630]

Hey Nate, could you interview Dr. Philipp Blom?

[@GhostOnTheHalfShell]

buh, Nat pick up some MMT. Deficit spending is different. We could mop up all the gov generated credit by taxing the entities sitting on most of the money created. Debt must be cancelled anyway. Private lending is the age old civilizational destroyer. There's a reason usury was forbidden in antiquity, until the Church got in bed with financing their wars. Confronting usury and inflation money, which are pure wealth redistribution upwards is a primary expression of a mercenary-slaver civilization and ethic. It must go or falter or we end up with collapse globally.

[@noelkelly4354]

Hear, hear. It's governments job to make sure there are enough schools, hospitals, houses, doctor, nurses, teacher etc, in to the future (short, medium & long term). Money is an illusion, lunch money doubly so. Apologies to Douglas Adams.

[@nataliag6715]

Please elaborate on the topic of enriched uranium supplied to the US from Russia. What will happen to the European energy situation if Russia stops supplying enriched uranium to the US? Thank you.

[@evinwhiteson4902]

Immagine i phones already compromised

[@Rnankn]

There is nothing external to globalization about novel pathogens becoming epidemic or pandemic. Diseases are a product of civilization. Human density, nutrient deficiency, zoonotic practices, and land-use encroachment, are the underlying reasons humans began to suffer from transmissible infections after the agricultural revolution, but especially from antiquity starting with the Antonine plague. Today, the global aviation and airport network is the perfect delivery system to a host species that suffers from overpopulation, and includes many members who are weak or have poor immune systems. The pandemic was not only predictable, it was expected. It will most certainly happen again.

[@d.Cog420]

Who is the person at the end he recommended listening to this coming week. Sounded like Roman Kaznark but I must have heard it wrong.

[@thegreatsimplification]

Roman Kznaric. Out Wednesday am

[@d.Cog420]

@@thegreatsimplification cool, thanks Nate

[@johnthomasriley2741]

You missed population. It will drop to a sustainable level of about 2.5 b. Ref: Empty Earth. 🎉

[@SamplingStones]

Shoutout to the fellow ragweed sufferers

[@Ritastresswood]

Since you seem to have a different opinion about a virus, I would recommend you pick up a copy of ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by RfK at the airport, if it is banned in U.S. I am all for conservation and climate change but we need to distinguish internal variability and AGW, which turns out a very different scientific task.

[@janetdowell6005]

RFK, Jr. 😂😂😂

[@madameblatvatsky]

While tech persists, it's Chinese only from now on.

[@rcm929]

😭😭😭😭😭

[@chyfields]

Have you ever considered the perspective that plants are the machinery of the planet and we are here to look after them?

[@projectmalus]

I find it demeaning wrt how humans think they are the most powerful and intelligent entity on the planet, not including the planet itself which is I think how you mean it. I love plants btw.

[@chyfields]

@@projectmalus i agree. Plants act like an nth generation float switch, air and water purifier, light splitter and more. Without them we cant survive. Other living creatures assist plants in this task by spreading their seed and providing nutrition. This reality is Mother Nature’s realm.

[@chyfields]

@@projectmalus. I agree. Plants act like an nth generation float switch, air and water purifier, light splitter and more. Without them we cant survive. Other living creatures assist plants in this task by spreading the plant seeds and providing nutrition. This reality is Mother Nature’s realm

[@projectmalus]

@@chyfields I don't disagree and really like the nth gen float switch. There's a 3rd view (humans as superior, ecosystem view as other 2) where a partnership is, again as you suggest :) Grass intelligence is single powerful intent with many forms of it, and human intelligence is similar form and many perspectives. A good fit of opposites, and a species saver back in the day but when production values ramp up maybe a different story, where freedoms across levels are impacted. Plants as factory workers producing widgets. People in boxes as roles offered, all powerful grass or consuming herd or pack hierarchy, a triangle where those creatures were pulled out halfway and so were people. There's a page on wiki called predictive coding (predictive processing) lists 10 influential parts of the human system that come together, and I think the "grass food" impacts this, or maybe 7 of them, and different combos of these are different organs impacted more, as different people characters, with different perspectives. Just a thought, that grass is quite powerful and not in the same way as humans...it doesn't have to do what we do The other thing is what I call the knowledge pool which is heavily invested in and very fragile, where a loss of freedom both ways for human wildlife translation (they don't watch youtube) becomes a plus when people care for them as their pets.

[@galacticsoul1615]

Hello Nate. Please read about the Yuga shift.

[@postscript5549]

🌍🌎🌏🎭🛢🎱💸🤖

[@justcollapse5343]

If we fly to the US for an intervention to stop to stop you from flying, is that hypocrisy , or is that activism, or is that just an amusing way to have a conversation?

[@Mikell-h2c]

Please remember the 241 young marines killed in Beirut in 1983😢

[@davehendricks4824]

They shouldn’t have been there.

[@Mikell-h2c]

@@davehendricks4824 ?

[@abhishek-px4jj]

They had no business being there. They were sacrificed at the altar of US deep states hegemonic mindset

[@Mikell-h2c]

@@davehendricks4824but they were 😢

[@TheDeadSol]

Number 3 is incorrect. Please refer to Dr. Stephanie Kelton's work via The Deficit Myth and other works. Modern Money allows for the government the government to spend without restrictions, as long as the economy is not at max capacity, and has enough real resources to spend on whatever they're spending on. US dollars are not losing value. They're losing buying power. Money itself is an accounting tool, it's used only to track things that we put value on. If you mean that it's losing buying power then I agree, otherwise you're spreading misinformation.

[@thegreatsimplification]

Sorry MMT is energy and ecology blind despite getting the money creation part right. I have a long form video on this in near future. MMT is “misinformation “ hiding within very good information (I don’t expect to change your mind but at least watch it when it comes out in October). Side note: MMT as it’s used now de facto in USA is terrible for inequality and for countries pegged to USD

[@TheDeadSol]

​@@thegreatsimplification Nate, putting energy and ecology aside, MMT is a description of how the government distributes its currency and how wealth works within modern sovereign nations using fiat. Even with its flaws, it gets other things correct like how the US government isn't in debt. They don't owe anyone. All of the debt that does exist is denominated within its own currency through its own banking systems. Any other government, or entity has to do business with the US using USDs. The US government forces its currency on the world, and that's how it maintains its financial imperialist grip. For centuries, so many people have shouted about the US going bankrupt, yet it never has happened. Why is it? It's not a normal household like what we have. You can't conflate the two.

[@TheDeadSol]

Furthermore, MMT isn't anything other than a lens to understand how modern sovereign economies work. No one has ever tried to use it as a way to run things. The US economy is Capitalist and fascist, and MMT shows this clearly.

[@thegreatsimplification]

@@TheDeadSol sorry- I will show how this line of reasoning is ridiculous. ALL US$ are claims CB in energy and ecosystem services when they’re spent. Our ecological debt with each new QE and money printing draws us further into debt. MMT uses- correctly- double entry accounting. Steve Keen et al have it right on taxes extinguishing money etc. but that’s the micro. The macro MMT is WILDY wrong. - it’s so sophomoric I can’t believe people are being sucked into the story. MMT is penny wise and pound foolish. Sure at the margin IF we changed cultural aspirations and lots of other things MMT could be a useful tool on how to allocate govt spending into ecological/productive pursuits- but the story it’s telling today will lead us off a financial/ecological cliff**. (** not really because most ppl don’t understand/subscribe to MMT). I’ll explain this in upcoming video -will try to bump up its priority 🙏

[@TheDeadSol]

@@thegreatsimplification Nate, I'll happily look at your video; however, from the amount of time I spent talking to the economists who worked on MMT during my nonprofit work in macroeconomics, such as Stephanie Kelton, Warren Mosler, and Ellis Winningham...all of them taught me how mainstream economists lie to cover up the fact that the US federal government pays all it's debts in US$, to itself, because the US federal government doesn't have debt to anyone but itself. The US federal government has a monopoly through finance both domestically and foreign. It pays itself back through its budget every year, and can spend into the economy without really causing inflation, because of the fact the economy is not at full capacity and has more than enough resources, including labor to be able to spend on things the citizens need; however, they don't, because the US government along with their lobbyists don't want to make things better, so they lie and try to conflate the US federal government as a household. Only the citizens can go broke, not the federal government.

[@davehendricks4824]

Exploding devices should be worrisome. According to a former military official and I agree it’s a possibility, it was the lithium batteries that exploded and it can be done by hacking the devices software, causing the battery to overheat and explode.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

That former military official is incorrect. See: *_StacheD Training._*

[@Krautastic]

First off, I'm just a mechanical engineer that's worked with lithium packs, they're not my specialty... Lithium batteries are very dense energy packs, so they can be a source of energy during the detonation but there's no way to 'hack' a lithium battery, and the connections on the circuit board would have to be specifically designed to enable such a fault to happen (wired thru a component like a microchip that could switch inputs/outputs to short the battery). That's not typical of how battery wiring is implemented into circuit boards. Lithium batteries can be dangerous when hot, they can enter a state of thermal runaway. This can happen when overcharged, compressed or punctured causing an internal short or when exposed to lots of heat. If the devices were hacked, at most the circuit inside could force the batteries to short out. Thermal runaway on small lithium packs like these usually doesn't result in a blast, but typically the battery swells and ruptures releasing hot gas vapors. Sometimes it can catch fire, but again, at this size of pack it would be a small flame. Explosions aren't typically a concern on such a small pack. Even the much larger packs on Samsung phones a few years back werent exploding. They typically caused burns on people, and those batteries are probably 5-10x the energy capacity of something a pager would need.

[@Krautastic]

Just to clarify... A circuit board could be made in a way that could be shorted out. But, it would have to be designed with that intent. Your standard phone isn't likely to be made like that, but a nefarious actor totally could build things that way or intercept the supply stream with a board that looks nearly identical but added that functionality. But then the comments about the size of the battery come back in. I sure if any of these didn't go off or weren't too badly damaged they will be analyzed.

[@davehendricks4824]

@@Krautastic good point!

[@morbidfaulkner7872]

The climate seems fine, my yard keeps growing and I keep mowing. Humans have to learn to adapt to their environment, not try and control it. This guy should go work in an oil field, then come back and educate us.

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

2:54 HOLY CRAP. This Frankly could've been 30 mins long and it still wouldn't have enough information in it.

[@deepashtray5605]

Here's another 800# gorilla to stuff into the berthing of Otis B. Driftwood. Russia's invasion of Ukraine highlighted a critical disruption in global food security; the global wheat supply. Science contrarians love to throw out the wonderful benefits of CO2, gleefully pushing how rising temperatures will increase wheat's growing range and the extra CO2 will increase crop yields. Lot of problems with that by itself, but it made me curious about how much atmospheric carbon is generated by wheat farming. Between the carbon footprints of fertilizer production, diesel fueled tractors and combine harvesters, trains, cargo ships... it turns out to be quite a lot: five metric tonnes of wheat generate one tonne of CO2 emissions. Last year 785 million tonnes of wheat went on the global market. I seriously believe the 785 tonne gorilla in the room is agriculture; it is even possible to decarbonize something as huge and vital as the wheat industry? And what will happen in 30 years when the price of oil goes through the roof? This is just wheat, there's also rice, corn, soy.... Anyone in mind you could have a conversation about on that?

[@projectmalus]

tillage releases large amounts of carbon by disrupting via oxidation in the redox cycle. Trees sequester carbon and this is transferred by micro biology into, reducing the carbon into the soil. Nuts and fruit are superior food, for livestock too. See Tree Crops by J Russell Smith, free old book. Look at the erosion pics and what happens in places that were beautiful once, like Syria. Humans aren't ruminants.