Read this post on Josh’s Substack: Powering Spaceship Earth.
Story (S3) just released our documentary on energy abundance. It combines the history of energy with some gazing into the future with 15 founders of leading energy companies and energy writers.
If you’re interested in a short “why” we did the film with Story, we also published an interview between Jason and Chris.
He’s not a feature in the film, but I’ll give the last word to Buckminster Fuller, from his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth because it holds the same moral stance implicit in the documentary. Fuller’s point is that we’ve progressed as a species because of our ability to master energy and apply it in many forms:
We have learned that only and exclusively through use of his mind can man inventively employ the generalized principles further to conserve the locally available physical energy of the only universally unlimited supply. Only thus can man put to orderly advantage the various, local, and otherwise disorderly behaviors of the entropic, physical universe. Man can and may metaphysically comprehend, anticipate, shunt, and meteringly introduce the evolutionarily organized environment events in the magnitudes and frequencies that best synchronize with the patterns of his successful and metaphysical metabolic regeneration while ever increasing the degrees of humanity’s space and time freedoms from yesterday’s ignorance sustaining survival procedure chores and their personal time capital wasting.
In a phrase, prosperity is energy-intensive.