Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
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Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
The same is true in London, where air pollution in the eighteenth century was worse than Delhi is today.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
The first task is to convert that 60 percent of energy coming from fossil fuels to something closer to 0 percent—or
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
Air pollution is not a problem of using too much energy or pursuing too much growth. It is a problem of using dirty energy because you do not have the money or the technology to grow another way.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
About 60 percent of the electricity generated in the United States in 2022 came from fossil fuels.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
Can we all be energetically wealthy? Not if we’re burning coal and oil.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
An uncanny economy has emerged in which a secure, middle-class lifestyle receded for many, but the material trappings of middle-class success became affordable to most. In the 1960s, it was possible to attend a four-year college debt-free but impossible to purchase a flat-screen television. By the 2020s, the reality was close to the reverse.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
For years, we failed to invent and implement technology that would make the world cleaner, healthier, and richer.
Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future
Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado sketch out some of the near-term possibilities. Vertical greenhouses could feed far more people while using far less land. Desalination is a major contributor to water supplies in Israel now and could supply more than half of the demand in Singapore by the middle of the century. The technology could become affordable f
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The energy analysts Sam Calisch and Saul Griffith estimate that in the next few years consumers will need to replace about one billion machines with clean alternatives.28