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Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Role of Cities in Socioeconomic Growth

The fate of the planet in terms of our socioeconomic activity and the effect it's going to have on the environment is completely integrated with the fate of our cities. We need a grand unified theory of sustainability that includes everything that's going on in this planet. Energy is the most fundamental quantity that drives this. None of this can happen without energy.

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