I feel like its picking back up though and more people are throwing in their hat. One of the co-authors of this book, Dapprich, is a young phd(?) grad. I read most of his dissertation a little while ago, and it was very interesting if a little stem brained (which is a theme I’ve found in many writings on the subject). These stem guys need to read Bataille or something to shake loose the rigidity in their heads lol.

I enjoyed the book I posted, and even learned a bit more about linear programming to understand it better. I plan to reread it (and TANS) soon as I understand the math better now. It poses a way of calculating based on labor, resources, and most importantly carbon budget. Allowing flexibility in fine tuning the plan as you go, etc… If you’ve read TANS, its similar, but the areas pertaining to carbon are important and I haven’t seen that explicitly laid out in any other writings. Most seem to usually go with a more abstract and general “production that doesn’t destroy the environment” without any detail as to how that it accounted for and budgeted.

However, I think we have more than enough expertise and existing infrastructure that we could start planning yesterday and figure the rest out as we go. Imagine if we paid coders to work on these problems instead of building garbage internet platforms, the new job-destroyer, or how to make workers at amazon live in a deeper level of hell. But we won’t do any of this while capital is in charge, so part of me just doesn’t care how well thought out any one planning model is as we have a far larger political problem to solve first. It just feels like navel gazing sometimes ig, something to keep academics occupied while the world burns. This stuff makes me both bloomer and doomer lmao