Satisfying Human Needs at Low Energy Use w/ Jefim Vogel & Julia Steinberger (E91)

This is a conversation with Jefim Vogel of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, and Julia Steinberger of the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne, about a paper they worked on entitled "socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning."Julia is also an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report, contributing to the report's discussion of climate change mitigation pathways.Topics DiscussedHow the major environmental and social crises of our time are interlinked, especially energy useMeeting basic needs at low energy useLeapfrogging fairlyDisparities between global North and global South(Some of) the limits of economic growthCitizens' assemblies and other examples of ways forwardLiving well within limitsRecommended Books:Jefim's:Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason HickelRequiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam ChomskyDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené BrownJulia's:Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back by Kate AronoffThe Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming by Eric HolthausWe Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism by Laurence Cox & Alf Gunvald Nilsen