Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck
Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck
How a renewable economy will engineer a whole new world
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Susan Krumdieck is a mechanical engineer, Professor of Engineering at Heriot Watt University, Chair of the university’s Energy Transition, and author of Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future.
Susan joins me to discuss how a sustainable future is possible by starting with engineering principles. Rather than focusing on politics and economics, which can only react in the short-term, engineering provides long-term vision, planning and design which will reimagine a sustainable world—and drag politics and economics into the future.
She explains the inefficiencies of fossil-fuel economies, how renewable economies will automatically contract (hello, degrowth), and how sustainable engineering can provide a better quality of life for every being on the planet. We also have a lovely conversation on the importance of narrative: start with scientific principles, but sell them as a story.
Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck
The wealthy, even those invested in pension and mutual funds, are the problem, alluded to the phrase Susan used of feeding off consumption is what I've typed as siphoning the surplus. People who are not integrated to anything except money.