Josh Floyd is Energy, Systems & Society Fellow at The Rescope Project and Founding Partner at the Centre for Australian Foresight. His writes on energy and society at Beyond this Brief Anomaly.
Uncertainty is the Best Tool to Navigate Toward our Post-Carbon Future
Our present situation warrants a significant level of knowledge humility. We can’t know for sure how future energy systems will function, what they will cost, and the types of societies they will allow, but modelling efforts can provide indications of what is and isn’t possible if given sets of conditions prevail. There are important benefits that come with greater knowledge humility.
August 11, 2017
The CSIRO’s Case for ‘Green Growth’ is Flawed
In late 2015 the CSIRO released its Australian National Outlook (ANO) Report (‘the Report’) which outlined 20 future scenarios for Australia, exploring various global and national sustainability challenges…our new paper argues that even the Report’s most ambitious “green growth” scenario is incompatible with long-term sustainability and global justice.
February 8, 2017