Is There a Circular Economy?

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The circular economy could span Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. It's actually the energy sources that will organize the industry and the industry will organize everything else. And so they become two sides of the planet, but you've got an isolated island. They both have geothermal. How would they approach that? And what are their respective problems? We could transfer information from one end of the world to the other.

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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