How a circular economy could avert ecological disaster
Let’s look at this without the usual radical green banter for a while. The last 20 years were about finding the cheapest stable destination for producing stuff. That has cost lots of jobs But today, other factors come to bear. Robotics make jobs far less important in the grand calculus of things. Cheap and reliable clean energy is another brick in the new wall for far less global supply lines. And National Security comes into play as well. AI, robotics and cheap energy will pull a lot of manufacturing back into the US. That’s not a circular economy yet but even this is going to see a revival and not for ecological reasons. The move is back to the hearth …
An idea that has been gaining traction with economists and environmentalists alike over the past few years in particular is the idea of a circular economy.
