For each person earning over $16,000 per year in the richest top 10% of the world there is someone stuck in the bottom 10% earning less than $1,000 per year. As everyone rightfully strives for a top 10% lifestyle emissions could double to over 100 billion tonnes per year and lock-in unknowable damage unless we rapidly transition to a net-zero system.

Understanding the virtuous circle of accumulated knowledge, technology, and surplus energy - a brief history of human innovation and how the industrial revolution increased not only population, but also prosperity.