The Venus Project and the Prepper Community

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I became very interested in the Venus Project when I saw a couple of years ago. It presented as a pure cornucopium like high-tech solutions. And it wasn't really tethered to reality. So if we were to bring everything that we had to bear in terms of our science understanding and then look at the needs of society, what would that look like? That's what my thinking is at the moment. Now the Prepper community is working on the assumption that they will get no help from others. There is a map out of this.

In this episode, Simon Michaux returns to discuss his new paper “A Resource Balanced Economy”, which outlines an alternative economic and social system. This conversation builds off of his two previous episodes on The Great Simplification, unpacking the ideas and tools that will be helpful in planning for an unknown future with more energy and material constraints. How can we be more intentional about the design of our technology to make products that are longer lasting and easier to reuse? How can we organize society to create resilient communities based around actual human needs, rather than endless efficiency geared towards growth? Can an ‘Arcadian Blueprint’ emerge, and at what scale, and by whom?

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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