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What Would a World With Abundant Energy Look Like? Materials Scientist Deb Chachra Has an Idea.
Izzie Ramirezvox.comboth abundance and scarcity are stories we tell ourselves. Right now, we see an America that is turning toward a story of scarcity. That turn is changing not just our politics, but our national character. We seek a politics of abundance that delivers real marvels in the real world. We want more homes and more energy, more cures and more
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
Matt Bluemink • From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths
From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see
As with preceding disruptions, this shift represents a transformation in energy as much as work. Just as the First Disruption depended on the energy of domesticated animals, humans and the elements, and the Second was powered by the condensed solar energy of fossil fuels, the Third Disruption sees a move away from hydrocarbons and back to renewable
... See moreAaron Bastani • Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.
Abrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
JSTOR: Access Check
As we covered earlier, our current model of economic growth, the one that is bringing some of the poor out of poverty, works to make the rich richer as well. Of course, this isn’t a practical problem for the poor if it brings them out of extreme poverty. The problem is that the size of the economy needed to achieve this outcome is not possible. So,
... See morePaul Gilding • The Great Disruption
