Reader “Alan” writes:
I suggest you read Brian Czech’s “Supply Shock” on the thermodynamics of why we can’t grow or profit our way out of our onrushing date with extinction. Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything” is another essential book to read.
Thank you, Alan. I’m very familiar with Naomi Klein, less so with Brian Czech, though I did just watch his video in which he summarizes his book.
To be honest, I’m not at all compelled by this. It’s fine to be a fan of Donella Meadows and the other “limits to growth” theorists over the last half century, but I’m not impressed with people who simply restate those ideas without adding any new proof or other forms of value on top of them.
I know lots of people, e.g., Nate Hagens, who support this idea in a far more credible and academically rigorous way–and even that doesn’t have me convinced.
I don’t carry the credentials (i.e., a PhD) like these people do, but I see no reason to disbelieve the counter arguments, i.e., that it is possible for humankind to build a “third industrial revolution” around cleantech.
