UnprobableView
full circle
The series which I'm closing today has been about the essential elements and about how us, the human species have been using them since primordial times. From the rudimentary economic activities of gathering and hunting, humankind has moved to using the natural elements in increasingly more complex combinations. In this process markets have served to facilitate exchanges and improve the overall efficiency of production and consumption. In parallel ever more sophisticated infrastructures have been set up to respond to the human needs. Huge water reservoirs started to be built in the rising urban concentrations since about 2000 years ago. In modern societies it has become central the need to develop powerful energy infrastructures. Throughout human history the diversification of energy sources has allowed to substitute and augment human labour. Some of the main transformations brought by the industrial revolution were precisely connected to this process of finding new energy sources. Today the pressure of rising consumption worldwide together with global warming of at least 2C until 2050 has placed the search for new energy technologies as a central challenge. The planet resilience has limits. Will we be able to find a regeneration path?
full circle
The series which I'm closing today has been about the essential elements and about how us, the human species have been using them since primordial times. From the rudimentary economic activities of gathering and hunting, humankind has moved to using the natural elements in increasingly more complex combinations. In this process markets have served to facilitate exchanges and improve the overall efficiency of production and consumption. In parallel ever more sophisticated infrastructures have been set up to respond to the human needs. Huge water reservoirs started to be built in the rising urban concentrations since about 2000 years ago. In modern societies it has become central the need to develop powerful energy infrastructures. Throughout human history the diversification of energy sources has allowed to substitute and augment human labour. Some of the main transformations brought by the industrial revolution were precisely connected to this process of finding new energy sources. Today the pressure of rising consumption worldwide together with global warming of at least 2C until 2050 has placed the search for new energy technologies as a central challenge. The planet resilience has limits. Will we be able to find a regeneration path?