Sustainable Living, Urbanization, and Genetics

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The chapter explores the race between fossil fuel use and climate change mitigation, focusing on decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions. It highlights the benefits of urbanization for sustainability and discusses potential future transitions towards more environmentally friendly living. The conversation also delves into advancements in genetics, including longevity research and the ethical considerations of gene editing and synthetic biology.

Technology is changing the world, in good and bad ways. Artificial intelligence, internet connectivity, biological engineering, and climate change are dramatically altering the parameters of human life. What can we say about how this will extend into the future? Will the pace of change level off, or smoothly continue, or hit a singularity in a finite time? In this informal solo episode, I think through what I believe will be some of the major forces shaping how human life will change over the decades to come, exploring the very real possibility that we will experience a dramatic phase transition into a new kind of equilibrium.

Blog post with transcript and links to additional resources: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/03/25/270-solo-the-coming-transition-in-how-humanity-lives/

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