Empowering the Future: from Nuclear to Podcasting
The Great Simplification #123 with Chris Keefer
Today, I’m joined by ER doctor, nuclear power advocate, and podcast host Chris Keefer for a broad ranging conversation including the basics of nuclear energy, how he engages with opposing opinions, and hypotheticals for a future medical system. Coming from a broad background, Chris understands what it means to have a human to human conversation and put together the pieces of our systemic puzzle in a clear and compelling way. What role could nuclear play for our future energy needs - and how are different countries making use of it today?
Chris Keefer MD, CCFP-EM is a Staff Emergency Physician at St Joseph's Health Centre and a Lecturer for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also an avid advocate for expanding nuclear power as the President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy and Director of Doctors for Nuclear Energy. Additionally, he is the host of the Decouple Podcast exploring the most pressing questions in energy, climate, environment, politics, and philosophy.
How can we prioritize the health and safety of people under energetic and resource constraints? Most of all, how do we listen to others that we don’t agree with - regardless of the issue - to foster the diverse perspectives necessary to navigate the coming challenges of the human predicament?
In case you missed it…
Last week, I was joined by philosopher and educator Zak Stein to discuss the current state of education and development for children during a time of converging crises and societal transformation. As the pace of life continues to accelerate - including world-shaking technological developments - our schools struggle to keep pace with changes in cultural expectations. What qualities are we encouraging in a system centered on competition and with no emphasis on creating agency or community participation?
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What I'm hearing in Chris' rather arrogant dismissal of rewilding/back-to-Nature is basically this:
"I was on the reasonable path towards rewilding until I realized that there's suffering and death in Nature and, unwilling/unable to accept that (and the fact that the human animal is subject to the same - admittedly sometimes cruel - laws as every other living being), I turned to justifying & perpetuating an ecocidal system that strives to separate humans from the rest of the community of life."
Not really the conclusion we need, given the evolutionary & ecological context in which we humans evolved. We are a part of Nature, whether we like it or not.
Nate & Team,
Loved the Indic Mind interview on the Metacrisis… would love the post mortem … to put it wrongly. What key concepts did we hear… I was stretching to follow what I will call the spiritual or esoteric parts of their vision, drive, perspective, voice and in lay language kindly translate. Big Cheers, love this ‘show’.