5h31m42s15f Star Trek on Earth Doable or Fantasy? Shellenberger: Make Clean Energy Cheap - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-17

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ So is this doable? Is an ecologically sound Earth compatible with 8 billion people living healthy, dignified lives, chasing their full human potential?  Or is this just another fantasy component of Star Trek, like warp drive, and teleportation?

Michael Shellenberger:
We're going to exhaust every option until we finally get clear that actually what matters is making clean energy cheap. So that we can live in a world where we mostly live in cities, we have high intensive agriculture, we've got clean energy, we've got clean water, we got recycling your materials... that's a vision of a world where we can all live modern lives, and it does not- it's not- It does not require any uh- It does not require any science fiction.

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Visual: Sci-fi montage showing video conferencing dating all the way back to 1927 Metropolis black-and-white science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)