Geoffrey West | Natural vs. Socioeconomic Systems: a Unified Theory of Sustainability

Summary: In Episode 19 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Geoffrey West about some of the most remarkable insights coming out of the fields of complexity science and computational biology. Are there limits to growth? What are the universal costs associated with our cities and our lifestyles? What can interest rates and human time preferences tell us about our relationship to nature? What role do we play in the universe’s inexorable procession towards entropy, and how much time do we have left?