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DEMATERIALIZATION AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE ECONOMY—AND CLIMATE CHANGE

An interview with Andrew McAfee by Curt Nickisch

The industrial era brought an unbelievable rise in human prosperity. As economies grew and standards of living climbed ever higher, forests were cleared, soil was stripped, and oceans were emptied. When the United States celebrated the first Earth Day back in 1970, people were afraid the world would soon run out of food and other resources, burning it up like flash paper, gone forever. But that seemingly unstoppable tide could be turning.

Andrew McAfee, codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of the book More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and ...