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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...our world today is built entirely, entirely on access to cheap petroleum products, cheap energy. Right? Why are you allowed to be in school..."
The contemporary world is built on cheap petroleum: computers, cameras, pens, clothing, medicine, food, and schooling itself depend on cheap energy and Middle Eastern oil.
Global food abundance rests on fertilizer trade: land-poor and populous southern regions depend on northern exports of petroleum-derived ammonia fertilizer.
Jiang says Japan cannot wait passively because petroleum underwrites not just fuel but plastics, high-tech industry, electric vehicles, and AI, so a long Hormuz closure would force deindustrialization or remilitarization.
"...our world today is built entirely, entirely on access to cheap petroleum products, cheap energy. Right? Why are you allowed to be in school..."
"...South America. Ammonia is, here I'll call it, produced from oil, petroleum, that is fundamental for fertilizers. And, as you can see, this is..."
"And, that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for the reason, people in the south would be in a lot of..."
"like if you are you know the poor kid on the block and you have an opportunity to steal from other people then do..."
"...seven to eight months okay people don't really appreciate how much petroleum is the basis for the global economy because not only uh does..."
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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