Klein and Thompson argue in Abundance that a desirable future requires technological advances creating new possibilities, not redistribution of existing resources alone.

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  It is routine in politics to imagine a just present and work backwards through the social insurance programs that would get us there. It is equally important to imagine a just, even a delightful, future, and work backward to the technological advances that would hasten its arrival. Bastani's vision is bracing, because it insists that those of us who believe in a fairer, gentler, more sustainable world have a stake in bringing forward the technologies that will make that world possible. That is a political question as much as a technological one. Those same technologies could become accelerators of inequality and despair if they're not embedded in just policies and thoughtful institutions. What Bastani sees is that the world we want requires more than redistribution. we aspire to more than parceling out the present new technologies create new possibilities they allow us to solve once impossible problems in a world where many of the countries with the largest greenhouse gas emissions are middle-income nations like China and India. The only way for humanity to limit climate change while fighting poverty is to invent our way to clean energy that is plentiful and cheap, and then spend enough to deploy it. The only reason we'd even the barest hope of avoiding catastrophic warming is that the cost of solar power has

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