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The Environment, Capitalism, Technology
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The Environment, Capitalism, Technology
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Sonal Chokshi, Marc Andreessen, Andrew McAfee
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Oct 4, 2019
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We worry about things like nuclear waste... but we don't worry about how much harm is caused by the pollution from other kinds of power generation. Worldwide, there are hundreds of thousands of deaths a year from people breathing coal dust and emissions from coal
plants.
It Makes Zero Sense to Be Anti-Nuclear Energy
The reason I thought GMOs were important to include in this book is because they are a great way to help us tread more lightly on the planet. They cause the crop yield to increase and you can grow GMO plants in different places. If climate change happens, you're going to need plants that can survive heat waves and droughts. The GMO toolkit is our best toolkit for accomplishing those things right now, and yet it's stridently opposed by governments and all kinds of groups around the
world.
Stop Attacking GMOs (they serve many benefits)
Looking forward, resources are going to become more affordable and America will utilize less energy (despite growing economically)
Resources Are Becoming More Affordable
The notion that capitalist systems have no way of dealing with increasing pollution is just dead flat
wrong
Capitalist Systems Can Fight Pollution
Let markets work to develop the goods and services, and let free trade happen; that's where prosperity and innovation will come
from.
The U.S. Government is Responsible for the Failed Clean Tech Movement
If you draw a graph of the U.S. economy, the real GDP of the U.S., from 1802 to 1970 and then you add one more line to that graph, which is total energy consumption per year from 1802 to 1970, those lines are really hard to tell
apart.
Energy Use is Now Divorced from Economic Growth
I'm for damn sure that we're going to need a much smaller acreage of cropland for all of humanity in 2100 than we do right
now
Will we eventually be able to make everything with nothing?
I've got this deep faith in markets - once you put things in them and price them, they deal with that price in a very fast way. If you change a business' cost structure quickly, they'll run from that increased cost like a gazelle runs when it smells a lion. It's just amazing how quickly it'll
happen.
Market Mechanisms Provide the Best Solutions
I think that in 2100 we'll be this species that occupies a very a small physical footprint on the planet without depriving ourselves. We'll go into nature because it's cool and because we want to, not because we need to strip it to satisfy our
growth.
Will we eventually be able to make everything with nothing?
Carbon emissions are falling across the U.S. and Europe
Global Carbon Emissions Are Falling in the US and EU
"Ephemeralization is the process of making making more and more with less and less until eventually we are making everything with nothing." - Buckminster Fuller
Ephemeralization: Making More With Less
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Sonal Chokshi Introduces Andrew McAfee (Part I)
Sonal Outlines the Episode Ahead
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Why Andrew McAfee Wrote His New Book, "More from Less"
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The Industrial Revolution Ended Slavery But Increased Child Labor
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Energy Use is Now Divorced from Economic Growth
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The Real Meaning of Capitalism
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Businesspeople Are the Enemies of Capitalism
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There Are Problems Capitalism Doesn't Solve
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20th Century Communist Systems Were Bad for the Environment
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Capitalist Systems Can Fight Pollution
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Technology Will Accelerate Resource Transition for Developing Countries
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Global Carbon Emissions Are Falling in the US and EU
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It Makes Zero Sense to Be Anti-Nuclear Energy
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A Market-Based Method for Fighting Pollution
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Low Income Countries Need to Produce Less Carbon Emissions
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Market Mechanisms Provide the Best Solutions
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Stop Attacking GMOs (they serve many benefits)
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Resources Are Becoming More Affordable
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Ephemeralization: Making More With Less
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The Four Vectors of Dematerialization
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Will we eventually be able to make everything with nothing?
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The U.S. Government is Responsible for the Failed Clean Tech Movement
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Nuclear Energy is the Cake; Solar and Wind Are the Icing
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Environmentalism Isn't About the Environment (Nuclear Energy is the answer)
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Elon Musk May Cause a Clean Energy Technology Tip
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Andrew McAfee on the a16z Podcast Outro
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