Excerpts and Notes

The Agile City by James S. Russell

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Full title: The Agile City: Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change

Mentioned in the book:

New West Land Company

Beartooth Capital

 

Six Degrees by Mark Lynas

Selected excerpts from Six Degrees:

...more human babies are born every day than the entire global population of gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans put together. [p.259]

Wow.

It seems to me that the dire situation that we find ourselves in argues not for fatalism, but for radicalism. [p.271]

My version of radicalism: Universe Club.  Why is it radical?  It does away with every existing institution and replaces it with just one.

Dukes calculates that an average U.S. gallon of gasoline required approximately 90 tonnes of precursor plant material in the process of its formation in ancient oceans....Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels. This suggests that a drastic curtailment of energy use would be necessary for humans to try and live within the current year-on-year budget of solar energy. [p.284]