Mike Tannenbaum

Regenerative Cryptoeconomics at scale would ensure funding of digital infrastructure that is not owned by any billionaire or tech giant

Europe and North America will reach “peak meat” by 2025, at which point consumption of conventional meat starts to fall,

the easiest items to recycle are the products made from a single material.

As long as the devs are doing something, capital will flow back in eventually.

current biodegradable products can only decompose if they are sent to a special factory, where the temperature and humidity is specially controlled, and lumped together with other compostable plastics. (If those plastics are thrown into landfill and mixed in with other trash, it doesn’t matter if they’re compostable or not. They’re not going back... See more

Malte said a move towards plant-based meats could also help alleviate food crises. “You are cutting out the ‘middleman’, whether it’s a cow, a pig or a chicken. It’s just mathematics: if instead of feeding all of these crops to animals, and then eating the animals, you just use the crops directly for human consumption, you need less crops overall... See more

We tend to think of the environment as a subsystem of the economy, but it is entirely the other way around. We are part of nature, not separate from it.

The second reason to believe in the future of plastic recycling is that there is a mature and growing domestic plastics recycling industry that needs the collected material