Essay: How to Survive

The Most Important Question · Feb 15, 2023 · 26m

This week:

There are a default group of problems that exist in our society because of the basic needs required to be a human.

They are:

Air

Water

Food

Sleep

These, our most primal needs, are more or less biologically inarguable, and the good news is, we understand them very well and have made enormous progress to ensure they are accessible to a greater percentage of humans than ever before.

There have been trade-offs along the way, of course, including plundering most of the solar system’s single habitable planet’s resources.

Without fulfilling our most basic requirements, we can’t truly move…