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@AlexSteffen

Writer, speaker, planetary futurist: Worldchanging; Carbon Zero; The Heroic Future. Always looking for light on the horizon.

San Francisco
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Joined March 2008
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    Jul 12

    Fantastic write-up of my letters project, The Nearly Now, in Fast Company magazine. Check it out:

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  2. 57 minutes ago

    True for every city in which there's demand for housing: Green homes, built densely is the best climate strategy.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    There's a term for this stage of development of the East Coast hyperloop: Vaporware. .

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    2 hours ago

    The verbal government approval is coming from INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

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    Jul 19

    "Housing scarcity delivers unearned wealth to people who own housing" Here's a better plan than taxing development.

    Why a land tax is more progressive than development fees:
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    Jul 19
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    "It’s easy to wish someone would help disadvantaged fellow citizens. It’s harder to admit that our capital gains are their housing crisis."

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    Jul 9

    Do not assume ANY part of decarbonization is inevitable—within the very tight time-frames we have to dramatically drop emissions. 1/

    Do not assume solar is inevitable: utility industry is bringing trend to a halt w/massive applications of campaign $
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    Jul 9

    Think fake news is bad? Get ready for machine-generated video. This is one of the 4 imminent technologies that make me fear for democracy.

    Technology is on the verge of being able to generate credible video and audio of anyone saying anything
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    Feb 27

    Every year we delay climate action, the speed of action needed becomes more rapid. Curves grow steeper—what I mean by "steepening problems"

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    Jul 9

    This is the most important reality in our lives, regardless of who we are or where we live or what we do or love. This defines our time.

    Every year we delay climate action, the speed of action needed becomes more rapid. Curves grow steeper—what I mean by "steepening problems"
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  11. Jul 19

    Reminder: I can be booked for keynote talks through my agents, .

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  12. Jul 19
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    "It’s easy to wish someone would help disadvantaged fellow citizens. It’s harder to admit that our capital gains are their housing crisis."

    3 replies 41 retweets 66 likes
  13. Jul 19

    Why a land tax is more progressive than development fees:

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    Jul 19

    Fossil fuel companies are not ongoing concerns. Many reserves can never be developed. Bad investments.

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    Jul 19

    "2017 is so unexpectedly warm it is freaking out climate scientists" by Joe Romm of :

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  16. Jul 19

    Small airports becoming more valuable as real estate than infrastructure was a key scenario point few years ago...

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    Jul 18
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    In the future, the 20th century's ideas will look more insane than the 19th's. And the 19th's looked like this.

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  18. Jul 19

    Indeed. Learning history is the best apprenticeship for good futurism.

    Futurism is anticipatory history; they’re intimately linked. It’s critically important as a futurist to understand what happened in the past
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  19. Jul 19

    This, from 2006:

    Curious about 's thoughts on this.
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  20. Jul 18

    Indeed. In California, climate action and building urban housing are widely overlapping challenges.

    I'm guessing you're all over this? Reminds me of some conversations we had at the climate forum
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    Jul 16

    It's hard to imagine the trillion-ton iceberg that just broke off of Antarctica. We're here to help

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