Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
The human race, Saul Griffith has estimated, currently consumes energy at an average rate of approximately 16 trillion watts, or sixteen terawatts—the equivalent of 160 billion hundred-watt lightbulbs burning all the time. Capping atmospheric greenhouse gas at 450 parts per million—a level that’s 15 percent higher than today’s and that climatologis
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we get a breakthrough in cheap hydrogen, for example, we might not need to worry as much about…
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Widespread diffusion of simple technical fixes ranging from mandated triple windows to designs of more durable vehicles would have significant cumulative effects. The halving of food waste and changing the composition of global meat consumption would reduce carbon emissions without degrading the quality of food supply. Remarkably, these measures ar
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While computing power grows in exponential leaps, the pace of transition to a green economy that would cleanly fuel that growth lags far behind.