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Brighter

Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism

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Brighter

By: Adam Dorr
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If you think we are doomed, think again: We can meet our environmental challenges and build a brighter future with clean technology.

Up until now, human progress and prosperity has come at a terrible cost to the natural world. Everywhere we look we see environmental devastation, and the looming threat of climate change casts our very future into doubt. Many believe our only option is to make massive cutbacks, to downgrade prosperity, to shrink the global economy by half or more. But this would only exchange an ecological catastrophe for a social one. If we truly face a no-win scenario, is it any wonder pessimism is so widespread?

Brighter explains that a very different future lies ahead of us. Adam Dorr is an environmental scientist, technology theorist, and Director of Research at the renowned think tank RethinkX. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Dorr explains that technological disruptions are already underway that will radically transform energy, transportation, food, and labor. The clean new technologies will wipe out older, dirtier technologies, foster unprecedented prosperity, and open the door to mitigating environmental impacts and restoring ecological integrity at a planetary scale – including solving climate change.

With clear explanations based on the pioneering work of RethinkX, Brighter offers an antidote to pessimism and false hope by giving us compelling reasons for optimism grounded in data, challenging us to reimagine environmentalism for the 21st Century.

©2023 Adam Dorr (P)2023 Adam Dorr
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This is the most comprehensive and sensible overview of what problems were are truly facing, and what technological solutions are available now and in the future to solve them with finality.

Great vision for a better, Cleaner, and more equitable future and how we can get there

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I was very impressed with his take on how we can move forward in this disruptive period and come out in the end in a brighter abundant future. We must stop using fossil fuels and focus on the things we know will solve Climate Change. Not focusing on such things as Hydrogen

Smart take on how we can react positively against Climate Change and for the environment

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he may be right about some of the things that he says, but other than being overly optimistic, I don't think that this adds and very much to the climate debate. this is not long on hubris but is short on facts. some of the facts are inaccurate.

is optimism is up at the top

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