Brighter | Episode 14 - What robots mean for the environment

Most environmental problems seem too big to face head on and actually solve. So conventional thinking, like degrowth, says we should retreat from these problems.

But new technologies - new tools - will change the game completely. Robotics and artificial intelligence mean that the marginal cost of labor is going to plummet toward zero.

As labor gets cheaper and more abundant, so does everything else. And this means that every environmental problem is going to become much more feasible to solve.

Adam’s book, ‘Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism” is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNYC1GWY and as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.

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