People underestimate the importance of threshold effects in complex systems like the economy, culture and society at large. Most confident predictions about the future hold way too many variables constant over time, which leads to faulty predictions with high confidence.

Japan is such a beautiful country. I am going to come back here more.

Energy and wealth are basically the same thing. The economy is a thermodynamic system. We not only need clean energy. We need 10X the amount of energy we have now. The far left focus on efficiency and energy austerity is literally insane.