So, picture this.

You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bed sheets.

You live in the cocoon of energy that barely leaves a carbon trace.

You walk into the kitchen and turn on the sink, and water from the ocean pours out the faucet.

The air is clean and humming with the purr of electric machines all around you.

The year is 2050, and everything is perfect?

That's the dream of abundance, the best-selling book by authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

Abundance argues that Democrats have gotten in their own way, and on issues like clean energy,

housing, and technology.

The party's instinct should be one of yes.

But as client's view has gained more and more popularity, especially in Washington, D.C.

It's come under increasing criticism from the left.

Coming up on Today Explain from Box, we hear from Ezra on abundance in theory,

and we talk to the newly elected mayor of Seattle on the challenges of putting abundance into practice.

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