Everybody's trying so hard to be a good person. It's quite touching. But I don't know if trying to be a good person results in becoming a better person, except as a kind of prayer that attracts the necessary experiences that change you into a person who acts more consistently from love, empathy, compassion, service.

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"Prepare to have your heart blasted open. Charles Eisenstein joins our host, Daniel Schmachtenberger, to explore the many facets of humanity that will contribute to large-scale healing of our earth and civilization. We take a look at things we do every day that are contributing to the breakdown of our relationships with each other and with our planet. In order to restore our meaning in life, we need to take care to heal the root of our addictions and patterns and understand the interconnectedness of life and earth. Deep down, we all want what is best for ourselves and each other, but often sacrifice exposing the truth out of fear of losing our belonging and sense of security. Listen in to find out what kind of conversation needs to happen to create a more beautiful world for everyone." From March 2019

One thing I discovered in my research is that many of the things that are blamed on global warming are actually, to a large extent, caused by disruptions in the hydrological cycle. Disruptions to water.

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The system is growth dependent, so a collapse is inevitable, unless you believe infinite growth is possible on a finite planet. But there are other money systems available to us.

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It really seems to someone on the other side that anyone who disagrees with them is just an idiot. Like, "how can you even question it when the evidence is so overwhelming?! When 97% of the scientists believe in it?! Haven't you seen the hockeystick graph?!"

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Charles joins Rick Archer on BATGAP on March 31, 2017.

Here is the description on Rick's show: Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks full-time.

Obviously the climate debate is highly polarized. On one pole are the extremists, the alarmists, the catastrophists, and on the other pole are those who are called "the deniers." That is an epithet that already implies that that side is wrong, so I prefer to say "the skeptics," which is not to say that I agree with them, but I like to use relatively neutral terms to describe each side.

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Our money system casts us into competition beyond what might be organic or natural to human beings. How exactly does this happen?

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What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works.

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Charles Eisenstein, author of Climate: A New Story, joins Howard Jacobson on the Plant Yourself Podcast to talk about climate change, and why greenhouse gas reduction and carbon accounting are not the solution to the deeper crisis we are invited to transcend.