Isn't the Biggest Elephant in the Room?

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"We've done a lot of our innovation problem solving through ideology," he says. "And the system's trying to find a new equilibrium because we ideologically believe things should never change" He adds that once oil starts to decline, it will raise the prices and costs of all the other things. 'The rugs are being pulled out from under our feet'

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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