The coming global oil crisis, mapped and explained
The largest oil shock in history is just weeks away – what’s going to happen when it hits? We dig into futures markets, supply chains, and more to map out how the world economic order is about to be remade.
Max Fisher is a veteran journalist who has reported from over 20 countries. His show, The Bigger Picture, illuminates our world by exploring how it really works, from the sweep of geopolitics to the deepest recesses of our minds. Before going independent, Max was a staff writer at The Atlantic and The Washington Post, a founding editor of Vox, and a long-time foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His book, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, was an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.
It’s that psychogeographical difference between the two that really sells ebikes for me. When the entire ride is pleasant and I only use as much effort as I want to, my commute becomes 15 minutes of learning about socioecology. I can take in everything around me and think about it without distraction. Now I measure that commute by the number of additional gardens and parks I route through with the time savings over normal biking. I can toss in an additional 5km of birdwatching or smelling particular flowers that I only found because my ebike encouraged me to explore side streets and bike more often.
Electric micromobility offers a genuinely new experience. Travel is entirely liberating now. It’s not something I have to think about or plan around or be stressed by. It’s just 15 minutes of meditating in nature and thinking about the landscape while doing something that feels like a roller coaster, stopping whenever I want for any neat thing I see without that costing time or effort. That kind of lifestyle is so much nicer than what I had when driving or on my regular bike.
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