"The technosphere, all the cement and buildings and plastics and asphalt and everything now outweighs all living things on earth. Not just animals, but grasses, trees, everything alive is outweighed by the things that humans have built. How much of what we call technological progress is really just borrowing from the future and labeling it innovation, and how would we know the difference?"
#NateHagens #Environment #Climate https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/119-technology-and-wealth
#NateHagens #Environment #Climate https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/119-technology-and-wealth
Technology and Wealth: The Straw, the Siphon, and the Sieve - The Great Simplification
In this week’s Frankly, Nate explores the relationship between technology and wealth when viewed through a global biophysical lens. He uses the visualization of a straw, siphon, and sieve to describe how technology enables the acceleration of physical resource extraction and the concentration and filtering of resulting ‘wealth’ towards the human species.
