Earth911 Podcast: Author Chunka Mui on Building a Perfect Future for Our Children

Earth911 Podcast: Author Chunka Mui on Building a Perfect Future for Our Children

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The future will not be written, we are able to make a greater, sustainable future for our youngsters based on Chunka Mui, cofounder of the Future Histories Group and co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the world we can proudly leave our kids by 2050, with Paul Carroll, a former reporter and editor on the Wall Street Journal, and Tim Andrews of consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. They crafted a imaginative and prescient for evolving our society and expertise to attain an environmentally sustainable and simply world. Their guide describes how computation, telecommunications, and knowledge will help to tune the waste out of our financial system whereas improvements in genomics, energy, water administration, and transportation ship improved well being and sustainable use of restricted assets.

A Brief History of a Perfect Future
Chunka Mui, co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Starting from computing pioneer Alan Kay’s quip that one of the simplest ways to foretell the long run is to invent it, A Brief History of a Perfect Future presents a practical, barely pessimistic forecast for 2050, nevertheless it gives concepts about how we are able to navigate out of disaster. The authors’ imaginative and prescient is far-ranging and we encourage you to learn and resolve for your self. Do it with a skeptical however open thoughts and also you’ll discover that there are lots of paths by the local weather and fairness crises we face. The guide is accessible now on Amazon and at Powell’s Books.