The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Applied to Different Things

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Galdang: Let's probably just circle around your Maslow hierarchy of needs to get more people thinking about the direction we need to go. Maybe you give a five to 10 minute overview of how you think about energy, food, water, sewage, heating, manufacturing. And then in the future, we come back and have a real deep dive on one of those or a different structure. But maybe for this conversation, would that make sense? There's a step before that, which I can add. So I'm actually undertaking some work at the moment. Like they're saying, governments around me, officials are getting it. They've asked me to construct a document where if I was

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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