A brief synopsis:

I am an hour and twelve minutes in now.  Simon went through a divorce ten years ago and his wife character assassinated him.  She messed up an intentional community he was involved in or something.  Did more than the sea level rise perhaps?  We do not have to know.

Talk of sea level rise, iron powder and other magic bullets that would take more organization than short term thinking will or can do.  The panel has the good sense to know as the future unwinds, the cost of doing everything is going red queen.  Despite a few burps of technonarcissism the panels digestion of reality is reasonable. 

The faster you run, the more you stay in the same place.  A lot of talk about making Hawaii into a food forest and thorium reactors to make the big island into a self-sufficient micro civilization able to reproduce enough modern technology on a sustainable basis to stay modern.  Simon pointed out while that is a great plan, nothing in Hawaii is organized to make this happen.

A mix of sanity and wild-assed dreaming.



Fun facts, if Britain had half the population and used 1/8 the energy they now do the Island would be sustainable.  Like Sandy said in the comments.  She learns something new every time.