As someone who has had a testy relationship with sleep on and off for years ... and the last eighteen months specifically, I found this extraordinarily useful. I also discovered that my innate senses had already put into practice many of the strategies discussed, low-level lights (floor lamps) in the evenings, redder light, early morning light, dropped off caffeine from 2pm onwards, and most recently (but for entirely different reasons) taking magnesium supplements, I just shifted them to evening uptake rather than just after or with lunch.
The title barely covers the subject matter. I don't have adequate words in a sentence or two to elaborate, but if you want to understand a little (or a lot) more about your brain, its chemistry and minimizing your entropy (disorder, randomness and uncertainty over time). And how to recognise states that either assist you in ameliorating entropy or identifying paths that will lead to greater entropy and then heading them off at the pass, then this is a podcast for you.
This kind of idiocy genuinely beggars fucking belief. Make roofing materials white, have green roofs, cover public car parks with white materials or solar panels (or both), plant far more urban trees (and green spaces generally), have more running water in cities, and grow more tees around cities.
As opposed to brainstorming (excuse my language) Utter cuntfest magic thinking, years down the line unimplementable expensive fuckwittery on a biblically epic scale. All the solutions are already available, but instead, some wilfully ill-informed twat or twats are empire-building (read as grabbing a share of the money cake), to achieve fuck all that couldn't already be achieved by existing technologies.
Some excerpts:
1. The report floated the idea of spreading particles over the ocean at a cost of $100 per square mile. A one percent change in the reflectivity of the Earth would cost $500 million per year, which does “not seem excessive,” the report said, “considering the extraordinary economic and human importance of climate.”
2. Stratospheric aerosol injection would involve flying aircraft into the stratosphere, or between 10 miles and 30 miles skyward, and spraying a fine mist that would hang in the air, reflecting some of the sun’s radiation back into space.
3. Marine cloud brightening involves increasing the reflectivity of clouds that are relatively close to the surface of the ocean with techniques like spraying sea salt crystals into the air.
Remember, governments don't have any money except yours.
Bjorn Lomborg with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute (Harvard University). How to fix climate change smartly, and not in a hypothetical future none of us will see.
I started watching this episode weeks ago, but then as sometimes happens, life the universe and everything got in the way, time disappeared, a flat was decorated, stuff moved to storage, social events happened, and insane long walks and expeditions consumed hours and days.
On reflection, it was the pursuit of meaning, the pursuit of higher ideals ... not goals per see, though it would be fair to say some of it was tests of self (I passed :-) A* ).
This is another of those technical episodes and I had to watch it again from the start and may have to watch it over again. I'm glad I did, I'm glad I took an inadvertent break, because on returning to the subject matter I found I saw stuff that I'd either missed previously or more likely, had been trying to `cram' due to a certain impatience (having and being mode), the having in this instance is trying to obtain the sum of someone's years of knowledge and work in a few short hours of YouTube videos.
Now as Autumn deepens and the evenings draw in there will be less desire for the outside in cold and dark, and more time for `higher pursuits' (that term is covered in this episode).
It would be fair to say, I have wandered innocently from the path, I have made much of me physically and much of the world outside, and now it is time to reflect, and Mr Vervaeke will be my guide.
