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To me the repair movement encourages innovation because one has to be creative in repairing things. And these are the skills we need to develop new sources of energy to support global society and health. I don't think the movement will be successful advocating a pessimistic strategy when we have so much going for us.
There is a lot of inefficiency in the world today. Basic structural problems prevent us from even having the data to take care of the solvable problems like ocean pollution and the decline in bee population. I was part of a project to fix these structural issues - https://lnkd.in/gUK6UtVc - Tom Vilsack used it in the intro to Kerry at COP27. It is way too premature to say "we can't do it" when we haven't even tried yet.
It would be instructive to look towards pioneers like William McDonough with his "Cradle to Cradle" strategy for making products that are actually sustainable (as opposed to empty claims by manufacturers). In this way we can have the growth needed to maintain global health at current population. I remember hearing McDonough speak many years ago and he pointed out that the Earth cannot sustain its current population on a total degrowth strategy - you would have to go back to about 600 million global population to do that!
So we must innovate our way - intelligently - out of our current problems and I see right to repair as aiding that innovation if we stay on the positive track.
To me the repair movement encourages innovation because one has to be creative in repairing things. And these are the skills we need to develop new sources of energy to support global society and health. I don't think the movement will be successful advocating a pessimistic strategy when we have so much going for us.
There is a lot of inefficiency in the world today. Basic structural problems prevent us from even having the data to take care of the solvable problems like ocean pollution and the decline in bee population. I was part of a project to fix these structural issues - https://lnkd.in/gUK6UtVc - Tom Vilsack used it in the intro to Kerry at COP27. It is way too premature to say "we can't do it" when we haven't even tried yet.
It would be instructive to look towards pioneers like William McDonough with his "Cradle to Cradle" strategy for making products that are actually sustainable (as opposed to empty claims by manufacturers). In this way we can have the growth needed to maintain global health at current population. I remember hearing McDonough speak many years ago and he pointed out that the Earth cannot sustain its current population on a total degrowth strategy - you would have to go back to about 600 million global population to do that!
So we must innovate our way - intelligently - out of our current problems and I see right to repair as aiding that innovation if we stay on the positive track.