The Future of Energy

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This is your third appearance on this podcast. In the first one we discussed why energy would be a limit to a business as usual future. The second episode you outlined four social groups that are present when talking about thinking about our future and global predicament. We've now got multiple black swarms around us, some are visible but some are not here but highly probable. It's no longer a drill. Like our daily lives are being impacted. Those groups are forming now because the wheels are falling off now.

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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