The High Cost of Looking Away: How Economic Blindness is Shaping our World

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of economic blindness and its impact on global crises.

❖ What happens when the warning signs are visible but the human brain refuses to believe in them? This episode explores economic blindness — the deeply human tendency to assume tomorrow will look like today — and how that mental trap is playing out simultaneously across three interconnected crises: a war disrupting global oil and food supplies, a climate system moving faster than the economic models tracking it, and a nuclear arms race quietly rewriting the rules of global security. ❖ The ins...

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Host: Rico Verde

Topics covered

• economic blindness
• global crises
• climate change
• nuclear security
• food supply disruption

Keywords

• economic blindness
• global oil
• food supplies
• climate change
• nuclear arms race

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