Thermoeconomics: Warwick Powell

Warwick Powell developes ideas that identify energy as being the key to understanding sustainable systems of production....and thereby reconnect political economy with material reality.

'.....the usual explanations - geopolitics, ideology, personalities, or “decoupling” - miss the foundational story. The turbulence we are living through is fundamentally energetic and thermodynamic; it is grounded the materiality of our existence. That is why I wrote Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters.....Thermoeconomics reconnects political economy with material reality and gives us a language to discuss what is actually at stake.

'In the end, every functional society still faces the same ancient requirement: food for people and fuel for machines. Everything else - finance, technology and geopolitics - must serve that metabolic imperative or eventually fail. Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters is my attempt to remind us of that truth and to offer a conceptual toolkit for navigating the transition. The monsters are real, but they are not invincible. Understanding the energetic foundations of our world is the first, necessary step toward conscious renewal.'



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