“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...” MindChildrenProblemDeathHumanityPoliticsPoorPovertyStruggleEconomyRichEnvironmentSocietyEconomicsEnvironmentalPopulationForestsBurningNationalismProblemsChildDieMind PowerGlobalizationEnvironmentalismStarvationForestScarcityWestern CivilizationEnvironmental ProtectionBurnPopulation GrowthTipping PointPopulation ControlGlobalismEnvironmental ConservationEnvironmental DegradationPopulation ExplosionCorals Book:Crux Source: Crux
“We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.” PeopleHumansEnergyPovertyClimateClimate ChangeBillionsGasInfrastructureTransportationEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesHuman PowerTransportation Infrastructure Author:Ramez Naam
“Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.” WayEnergyPovertyPlanetsClimateClimate ChangeBurningCollapseCarbonDoomReducingEcologicalUsageHorrificCo2 Author:Ramez Naam
“New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.” WayEndsGrowsNaturalPovertyTechnologyResourcesEnvironmentalRisingConsumptionPieNatural ResourcesNew TechnologyResource Depletion Author:Ramez Naam
