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Brighter
- Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism
- Narrated by: Adam Dorr
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
If you think we are doomed, think again: We can meet our environmental challenges and build a brighter future with clean technology.
Up until now, human progress and prosperity has come at a terrible cost to the natural world. Everywhere we look we see environmental devastation, and the looming threat of climate change casts our very future into doubt. Many believe our only option is to make massive cutbacks, to downgrade prosperity, to shrink the global economy by half or more. But this would only exchange an ecological catastrophe for a social one. If we truly face a no-win scenario, is it any wonder pessimism is so widespread?
Brighter explains that a very different future lies ahead of us. Adam Dorr is an environmental scientist, technology theorist, and Director of Research at the renowned think tank RethinkX. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Dorr explains that technological disruptions are already underway that will radically transform energy, transportation, food, and labor. The clean new technologies will wipe out older, dirtier technologies, foster unprecedented prosperity, and open the door to mitigating environmental impacts and restoring ecological integrity at a planetary scale – including solving climate change.
With clear explanations based on the pioneering work of RethinkX, Brighter offers an antidote to pessimism and false hope by giving us compelling reasons for optimism grounded in data, challenging us to reimagine environmentalism for the 21st Century.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-2023
Lots to learn but a bit repetitive
Great information and insight into our rapidly changing world and the implications of such changes. Full of optimism and a better outlook to have on the future of the planet. There is however, a lot of repatition that could be cut out. Definitely worth the read though.
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