Dematerialising the future: what role can technology and consumers play?

[amin...@gmail.com]

Hello,


I have just posted before about Dematerialization Through Services,
read it here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.usa/rVZUcghUe5E


The above makes it clear that the evidence indicates that
‘dematerialization through services’ is not a valid policy for
reducing carbon emissions.

But Dematerialising is still important, read the following to notice it:

Dematerialising the future: what role can technology and consumers play?

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/dematerialising-future-technology-consumers

Also read my following thoughts to notice:

About capitalism and the positive correlation between economic growth and environmental performance..

As an economy expands, resource usage becomes increasingly efficient and economies tend to move away from ecologically harmful behavior, while raising the standard of living of its participants. In fact, the 2018 Yale Environmental Performance Index shows a clear positive correlation between economic growth and environmental performance, read about it here:

https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/2018/report/category/hlt

So i think we are on the right path and i think as consumption switches from goods to services, economic growth can be decoupled from the use of material resources, and this will help us very much to efficiently avoid environmental problems.

So as you are noticing that we have to dematerialize much more so that to avoid Environmental problems, but how will look like our near future that will be much more dematerialized ? look here in the following video to notice that one of our fellow techlead and software developer is doing it by much more dematerializing his life and he is happy by doing it:

My minimalist apartment (as a millionaire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUeqHhbQWFc


Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.