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Charles C. Mann, author of “How the System Works” in The New Atlantis, joins the show to discuss the complexity and vulnerability of the hidden processes that sustain human life on our planet.

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• 01:49 Introduction

• 02:31 Interconnected

• 05:43 Medical care

• 09:20 Feeding humanity

• 11:56 Three advances

• 20:42 Water

• 26:34 Energy

• 36:05 Keeping pace

• 38:35 Hurdles

• 41:12 Solutions

• 45:26 Public health

• 56:38 Concerns

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2d:T47c,This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an importan

Ep 239: Charles C. Mann on How the System Works

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