We Will Need New Systems That Evolve With Change

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It sounds like you're talking about a balcony of the world with national entities becoming smaller ones. What I do think is it will come to cultural identity. And that's what we will all gravitate to and will gravitate like to like. One part of the world might produce a lot of nice food and everyone else around them appreciation them. So that will become an identity. We need new systems that will evolve past the problems of the old systems. That's why we need a new system.

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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