…yet doing so by looking at living in the material world. (Matter matters.)
The periodiic table of the elements, viewed as a spiral rather than table, shows the pattern of “where the action is,” and discloses the pivotal role of carbon and silicon on the “pivotal axis.”
Humanity’s energy trajectory — wood > peat > coal > oil > natural gas > hydrogen — has evolved to ever less carbon. Once we get to carbon, there’s no further to go.
The only way to the necessary transformation is to crash through waht money used to be, to something that actually tracks what’s really of value.
