Jean-Marc Jancovici
4 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2021–2024
1:49:32 · 84K views · Feb 25, 2021
Jean-Marc Jancovici gives an MIT Media Lab talk on whether technology can save us from climate change. He argues from a physical view of energy that economic growth, energy use and climate impact are tightly linked.
Recommended in climate and energy threads as a numbers-based explanation of why energy underlies growth and emissions.
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Jancovici is a legend. Listenening to him and reading his latest comic book ( Le monde sans fin ) made me very aware of climate issues and directly influenced my behavior. He deserves to be better known by international audiences. Here are some of his talks in english: - [LINK] - this video
You can try talks from this guy, he's a french energy and climate expert. I found that he explained very well the root of the issue between growth, energy and climate impact. Here is a talk he did for the MIT media lab in english: this video
Interesting related presentation on what is energy and how it relates to the economy from a physical point of view this video Note: presented in a controversial way, that's the style of this speaker
If you can suffer the french accent, I believe Jean-Marc Jancovici is making some good points about this issue : this video
> What's the argument against researching it? It's a diversion. They're all stopgap measures with no real long term application. You can paint all the road white and add artificial clouds, if you continue to live like resources are unlimited and pollution isn't an issue you'll sooner or later hit another problem. If we don't take care of the root cause we're bound to fail. Unlimited growth and exponential energy usage isn't possible in a closed system. All these new "green" economy, "green" growth, &c. are perpetuating the idea that we're going down the right path and simply have to tweak a few variables to go from "catastrophic failure" to "idyllic paradise" I don't think people truly understand how fucked we are and how deep the problem runs. this video