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“I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our need to live within a habitable zone and to do so without using air conditioning and heating in the way that is so incredibly expensive to the environment.”

Quote by Jonathon Keats

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Jonathon Keats is an active artist and writer in the contemporary art and science fields. Known for his interdisciplinary works, he combines scientific concepts with artistic practices to explore the relationship between humans, nature, technology, and the universe. more

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“The city is better because the city has an economy of needs and once you're talking about a city, maybe you can start talking about how you manage the climate of that city as a whole. Not by putting a dome over it but by more passive means that can potentially be put together in creative ways.”

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“Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.”

“Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer.”

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“I don't think that I am hopeful because I have some data that you don't, that I am going to share with you and going to convince you on that basis.”

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“I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.”

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“It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.”

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“That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.”

Way Doe Seems Despair Productive

Author:Jonathon Keats

“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.”

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“It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is.”

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“I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.”

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