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Regulating The Economy Is Like Regulating Football

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The world today is facing a number of different crises, climate change, pollution, income inequality, social unrest, the list goes on. Sustainability issues are complex and affect people from all walks of life and spill across borders. It's difficult to find someone with depth of knowledge and experience in these issues who can also explain them clearly and succinctly. Janez Potočnik is one such man. Potočnik is from Slovenia in central Europe and is an economist and politician who has worked tirelessly for decades on sustainability issues in Europe. He served as European Commissioner for Environment from 2009 to 2014 and is winner of numerous environmental and sustainability awards including the Champions of the Earth Award from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2013. He has a delightful accent and a calming voice and sounds much like a kindly grandpa Dracula.  In April 2014, he gave an impressive TEDx talk,  New Environmentalism and the Circular Economy . Fo
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You're Technology Can't Save You, But Then Again, Maybe It Can

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I love science. I always have. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved learning about biology, paleontology, geology, physics, space, etc. I majored in ecology in college and environmental issues have always been important to me. I also love learning about new technologies and how they will affect the future; nanotechnology, new materials like nano-tubes and graphene, human-computer interfaces like Neuralink, and of course, AI, which is both exciting and scary. But there are two areas in particular that are exciting to me. One is space exploration. I love reading about the latest discoveries of the Mars rovers and the search for water and potentially life. I get excited thinking about the possibility of colonies on Mars or the moon. After the incredible discoveries of Pluto by New Horizons I’m impatient for new space missions like to the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn’s moon Titan, Then there are advances in hardware like Space X’s reusable Falcon rocket to make space travel cheape
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