The Climate Crisis Begins Within: Why Technology Alone Cannot Solve Humanity's Biggest Challenge

On May 30, a speaker at the Cambridge Union noted the audience's deep hunger for answers beyond technology. Many economists and scholars asked about the "self that produces the crises." The speaker explained that "enormous outer power meeting an almost entirely unexamined inner life" drives issues. Efficiency gains, like those in Jevons' 1865 observation, are consumed by appetite.