Erik is joined by Charles Eisenstein (@ceisenstein) on this episode. He is the author of Climate: A New Story and The Ascent of Humanity, among others.

They discuss:

- The main thread that runs throughout Charles’s works.

- Why technological utopias and the age of leisure have been widely predicted but have never actually come about.

- How humanity shaping its environment has caused problems for humans, and why trying harder and harder to solve those problems has perpetuated them.

- Why the happiest people he meets are in less developed countries.

- What he sees as the limits to scientific inquiry.

- The ideal scale and scope of markets.

- What he would change about society if he could wave a wand.

- Whether the planet really needs “the economy to get going again” even though that seems to be what virtually every politician calls for.

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