Comments on: Eco-pragmatism and resilience

By: Re-reading The Limits to Growth « thenextwave

Re-reading The Limits to Growth « thenextwave — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:51:19 +0000

[…] earlier post, ‘Eco-pragmatism and resilience’, may also be of interest. The diagram above, by Andrew Curry, is published here under a Creative […]

By: Thinking in miracles « thenextwave

Thinking in miracles « thenextwave — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:25:28 +0000

[…] the efficiency gains. We have been living with this ‘paradox’, the Jevons Paradox, for almost 150 years now. Another is the notion that we’ll get to an 80% carbon emissions reduction by 2050 […]

By: Noah Raford

Noah Raford — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:12:07 +0000

Really nice review Andrew. I hosted Stewart Brand for a leg of his trip when he was here in London in January. He's one of my inspirations as well and it was a real treat to get a bit of his West Coast techno-optimism in the heart of the Big Smoke.Re: your closing comments, you might enjoy this 2008 debate between Peter Schwartz of GBN and Niall Ferguson entitled, “Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress”. They basically agree on all the facts, but differ in their interpretation. In the end they conclude that it's a matter of worldview; Peter's a Californian Techno-Optimist and Niall is a grouchy Scottish historian of civilisational doom. It's an entertaining debate on national characters and outlooks, which reflects some of the tensions you bring up re: technological solutions to climate change.I think that will be a future Nerd House episode for sure!