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Kajiado County, is the venue for the annual off-road competition in which entrants visit several points (Guard Posts) while travelling the shortest possible distance across difficult terrain.

In both the book POWER, and in the podcast, I say that my purpose in writing is to explore the historical process that got us to our current existential global crisis, and to help us all develop wisdom and perspective in this daunting historical moment.

Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.

Learn how humanity can exercise collective self-restraint to navigate the social and environmental crises of the 21st century. The world is in overshoot.

The optimum power principle can be defined as the tendency of natural and human systems to sacrifice some measure of power in the present, so as to maximize power over a longer period of time.

We will have to sacrifice, engage with dilemmas, and relinquish some power. This will be challenging, but it can also be enriching.

Over the 19th and 20th centuries physical power, social power, and economies grew explosively. The main cause was humanity’s exploitation of fossil fuels.

Richard Heinberg, renowned energy and sustainability expert, explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.