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commented on Abundance by Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson: Abundance (AudiobookFormat, 2025, Simon & Schuster Audio)

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history …

Has a pretty good criticism of degrowth (winning elections on degrowth policies such as vegetarianism isn't likely to happen), but then transitions into a description of an energy techno-utopia that is also significantly hard to win on politically. Massive subsidies for green energy are also a pretty hard sell. Maybe they'll get to that part shortly though.