Industrial Hubs

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The future, I believe, is communities where humans come together in groups and we start to cooperate. And that's the direction we will go. The federal government doesn't actually own anything. So it's the local city or shy council who will actually do the useful work. State governments are going to go through a stress themselves that they become less relevant as growth-based economics faces out. What works is what survives. We have now a series of localized, decentralized networks - you'll have like a hub where everything balances,. but in a local area.

On this episode, mining and geology expert Simon Michaux returns to give a preliminary framework for responses to the coming energy and material constraints described in the previous episode. This includes both practical thoughts for how to organize communities around resources and also a shift in mindset from short term to long-term and from competition to cooperation. How do we simultaneously lay out all of the biophysical constraints on the table so that we can begin preparing for and adapting to a changing future?

About Simon Michaux

Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux’s long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.

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