@adamdorr.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist. Technology theorist. Director of Research at RethinkX. Optimist Prime. http://amzn.com/dp/B0BPGMW2B6/
New interview of mine in @theguardian.com about AI, robots, and the disruption of human labor - perils and promise both:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I'm seeing a resurgence in climate change fear-mongering this week, centered on scenarios out to 2100 (!)🤣 🤦♂️ Climate change is real and a major challenge, but conventional @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios are technologically illiterate garbage. Here's why:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
RethinkX's groundbreaking new report 'Understanding Stellar Energy' is out now hubs.li/Q03mVSPV0
17.05.2025 16:21 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stop panicking. Can you even tell from global emissions data which US administration was in power over the last 75 years?The world will continue building and buying enormous amounts of solar and EVs, regardless of what happens in Washington. Technology and markets solve climate change, not policy.
14.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0For 15 years, my friends and colleagues across the environmental disciplines said AI and robots were "just science fiction" that would take "decades, if ever" to arrive. Funny I don't hear that anymore.
How does that crow taste? 🤣
"Each sheet of A4 paper takes 10 liters of water to make". lol, no. That would mean the global paper industry uses 3x more water than the entire United States economy!
We need to get these things right, or the public will rightly dismiss our environmental concerns as unhinged.
Wondering whether AI will be good or back for climate change? Or how robots are a cornerstone for solving our environmental problems? Here you go:
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
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05.02.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
Relax. Everything will be fine. Two things matter more than anything else: 1) avoid violent conflict, 2) make technological progress. That’s the cake. The rest is icing. Don’t lose sight of what’s most important.
20.01.2025 15:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Crazy to see so many folks in a lather about AI and energy use. It’s pure nothingburger. Energy use will rise and virtually ALL of it will come from solar+wind+batteries. Everything else - gas, nuclear, hydrogen - will be a rounding error. Meanwhile, emissions will plummet. Stop panicking.
14.01.2025 15:26 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
It's not too late to give something uplifting for the holidays!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBKYR1G
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
Humanoid robots won’t just displace human jobs.. they will create an entirely new, vastly larger and more capable labor system 🌎 🤖 🚀
Read RethinkX's Top 15 Insights into the Inevitable Humanoid Robotics Disruption... www.rethinkx.com/labor/in-dep...
False assumptions about ecological restoration are built into the overshoot logic taught to undergrads. Using standard bathtub analogy: falsely assumes fixed tub size, no pumping, etc. Sorry, too busy to debunk the entire Degrowth orthodoxy today. See my book and video series for details.
14.12.2024 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Degrowth is an idea too bankrupt to be salvaged or accommodated or appeased. It's like thinking slavery is a way to handle labor shortages. Just, no.
14.12.2024 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some days it's just too exhausting to deal with the sheer *wrongness* of the Doomer and Degrowther narratives around climate change and sustainability. If you're tired of all the fact-free pessimism and are hungry for some data-driven optimism for the holidays: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQT...
13.12.2024 20:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0😄If you can, please leave a rating and review on Amazon or Goodreads! The algorithms won't recommend it until it gets to about 50 reviews!
12.12.2024 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ever wonder what Elon Musk's real plan with Neuralink is? It's worth a LOT more than $440 billion. And it's not what either his fans or his haters think. Answer is in here:
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
Just a reminder that the conventional climate narrative is dead wrong because it fails to understand technology. We have no technology theory in our environmental science curricula (eg UM SEAS and @uclaioes.bsky.social), so we're easy targets for misinformation: youtu.be/Qfh83yqKkBc?...
07.12.2024 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Conventional rail is grossly suboptimal across multiple key performance dimensions. Humanity can do much, much better.
04.12.2024 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0There's no real evidence that technological disruptions can be slowed down. My team has documented more than 100 disruptions and over 1000 technological innovations throughout history. Demand for new tech offering an overwhelmingly competitive value can't be durably suppressed. Never happens.
03.12.2024 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Animal agriculture is the problem, not "food". And the solution is new technology: precision fermentation and cellular agriculture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXH5...
Be careful not to conflate “warming stops” with “impacts stop”. This is just taking the foot off the accelerator. It’s still easy to crash when you’re coasting - permafrost melting, ice sheet collapse, marine trophic collapse, etc. Braking is still 100% necessary, meaning GT/yr carbon withdrawal.
03.12.2024 15:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Be careful not to conflate “warming stops” with “impacts stop”. This is just taking the foot off the accelerator. It’s still easy to crash when you’re coasting - permafrost melting, ice sheet collapse, marine trophic collapse, etc. Braking is still 100% necessary, meaning GT/yr carbon withdrawal.
03.12.2024 15:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glad you liked it!
01.12.2024 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s official! More than the Sun and Stars is available now!
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
I’ll be streaming live on X Spaces starting 3pm ET Sunday for the launch of More than the Sun and Stars! Q&A/AMA, general conversation around #AI, #superintelligence, Neuralink-style BCIs, #disability, #scifi, #technology, and whatever else anybody wants to talk about! Stop by and bring friends!
26.11.2024 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just a reminder that the conventional #climate narratives like those at #cop29 still get everything dead wrong: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
29.11.2024 16:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes! And narrated by yours truly! Hopefully available within a few days of Dec 1st launch - depending on Audible turnaround time!
28.11.2024 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
