Simon Michaux: "The Arcadian Blueprint"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Science, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Simon Michaux returns to discuss his new paper "A Resource Balanced Economy", which outlines an alternative economic and social system. This conversation builds off of his two previous episodes on The Great Simplification, unpacking the ideas and tools that will be helpful in planning for an unknown future with more energy and material constraints. How can we be more intentional about the design of our technology to make products that are longer lasting and easier to reuse? How can we organize society to create resilient communities based around actual human needs, rather than endless efficiency geared towards growth? Can an 'Arcadian Blueprint' emerge, and at what scale, and by whom?

About Simon Michaux:

Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux's long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins.
0:06.3	That's me.
0:07.7	On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, in our society.
0:17.0	Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals.
0:32.9	Today I'm happy to welcome back to the podcast, Simon Mischo.
0:37.8	Simon works for the government of Finland, has been on this podcast a couple times,
0:42.7	is a good friend of mine and a good human being.
0:46.2	Simon returns to unpack the road to Arcadia, which was one of the four types of people
0:53.8	working on a pro social future, what sort of technology,
0:58.0	what sort of frameworks to get us from here to there. We center the conversation around a recent
1:05.0	paper by Simon called a resource balanced economy, which is in contrast to the popular circular economy. We talk about supply
1:15.7	chains, new technology, data collection, artificial intelligence, and what it's really going to
1:21.8	take to get from here to there. For those of you that have followed Simon and my conversations or elsewhere, you know
1:30.1	he is a colorful personality. He has a passion for exploring ideas. And he's become a good friend
1:37.5	of mine who I trust. And I love to just watch his brain work in real time. And this was a fun conversation.
1:45.5	I hope you enjoy Simon Michelle.
2:01.6	Good day, mate. Hoover, Hoover, Humberter, and good day, mate.
2:02.4	Gide mate.
2:04.7	Hoover, Humberta, and good day, mate.
2:05.7	Huber Huma.
2:09.9	The only two finished words I know.
2:11.6	Well, I know three.
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