The System Being Built While the World Burns
From The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese by Hosted by Greg Reese of the Reese Report
April 1, 2026 · 5 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the rapid development of carbon market infrastructure and its implications for society amidst rising fossil fuel prices.
According to the Brookings Institution’s analysis of carbon tax timing, high fossil fuel prices are the worst time to impose a carbon tax, but are the best time to build the underlying market architecture. And that infrastructure is rapidly being built and deployed by the biggest multinational corporations, governments and states, and the United Nations — especially in the past few months. Announced at Davos in January 2026, the carbon market platform EcoGuard automates the full carbon credit lifecycle. The carbon market is expected to reach $5 trillion by 2035. This infrastructure is designed to be “invisible and ubiquitous” — the goal is for every transaction, settlement, and data point to be managed behind the scenes so that the user is not aware of it. Also at Davos last January, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said that AI “will destroy humanities jobs,” and described a future in which high school students train for factory jobs, no one goes to college or immigrates, and black-box software run by major government contractors determines whether society is being run properly. For the more compliant, the so-called 15-minute city, smart city, and freedom city models are being built to…
People in this episode
Host: Greg Reese
Topics covered
- carbon tax
- market architecture
- multinational corporations
- AI impact
- smart cities
- digital ID
- population monitoring
Keywords
- carbon tax
- EcoGuard
- AI
- smart cities
- digital ID
- carbon tracking
- population monitoring
- Davos
- Palantir
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Brookings Institution, EcoGuard, Palantir, United Nations
Places: Davos, US
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