What Will Work in the Future?

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"I have a probabilistic view of the future. So we could kick the can another decade maybe or this could all be upon us by next summer," he says. "There's a lot of people that are chomping at the bit to work on the future". But those people are still a tiny fraction of those riding shotgun on the superorganism where growth and jobs are going to be the thing that dictate our elections."

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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