Societies treating fossil fuel stocks as if they were flows (income/interest) rather than drawdown of principal is the fundamental error; we are in a 'carbon pulse'—a few-hundred-year period where humans rapidly deplete millions of years of sequestered carbon.
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Nate HagensEvidence Quote
“we are drawing down the principle of this unbelievably special one-time bank account of fossil magic but our stories are treating it as if it were a flow”
Source
The Great Simplification: What HS Leaders Need to Know About the Future of Energy with Nate Hagens— Center for Homeland Defense and Security Naval Postgraduate SchoolCreated: 8/12/2026, 10:21:00 PM
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