Maslow's Maslow Hierarchy Framing

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Under the Maslow hierarchy framing, energy systems will have to in power transport somehow differently. So for example, we would see more buses, more communal transport and less individual cars. Instead of like one big giant seamless power grid that delivers sinusoidally pure power all the time, I can see a situation where we will evolve an engineering electronics that can cope with variable power.

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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