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How Can Humanity Become a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization?

Season 10 Episode 25 | 18m 40s

Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it—our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step? Will we even become a true Type-1 civilization, and how can we get there?

Aired: 11/06/24
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