Rationally Thinking Out Loud » Alex Steffen http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com Just one guy thinking out loud on a the issues in religion, atheism, politics & science Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:16:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 Alex Steffen TEDTalk on: The shareable future of cities http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/08/08/alex-steffen-tedtalk-on-the-shareable-future-of-cities/ http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/08/08/alex-steffen-tedtalk-on-the-shareable-future-of-cities/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:10:57 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=523 Alex Steffen poses a question and offers an answer to our climate change problem when he says in this TEDTalk that

….by looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem were in fact setting ourselves up not to solve it.

A provocative and interesting quote he gives us at the end of his talk from Paul Hawken

Our economy now by and large operates as Paul Hawken has said by stealing the future, selling it in the present and calling it GDP.

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