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Deb Chachra
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“Decisions made decades or even centuries ago—how we treat wastewater, the use of alternating current instead of direct current for electricity grids, pipelines laid for fossil fuels—all of these shape not just the technologies and systems in use today but those that haven’t yet been built. That continuity means there’s a path dependence—that the kinds of systems we have today depend on the characteristics of the systems that came before—in addition to growth and accumulation, as these systems build on each other. We now live surrounded by technological systems of nearly unimaginable scale, extent, and complexity.”
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
“We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not what we’re doing. What we’re doing is leveling up. We—you, me, anyone who is alive today—we have the opportunity to not just live through but contribute to a species-wide transition from struggle to security, from scarcity to abundance.”
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
“Stability of all sorts, including political and economic, makes it feasible to frontload large investments of resources with the expectation of continuing benefits over a long period of time. What we think of as the primary characteristic of infrastructure - that it just works, and works invisibly to support other activities - is made possible by stability. A habitable planet with a stable climate is the infrastructure to our human-made infrastructure.”
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
― How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
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