Click here to see graphic Commodity revolution: Resource prices The vital physical ingredients of life – commodities such as iron, wheat, sugar and zinc – are now two and a half times as expensive, on average, as they were at the turn of the century, and that's excluding the impact of inflation.
Generate Capital, the Carbon War Room and SunEdison all follow from Jigar's vision that business model innovation will have an outsized impact on bringing about the next productivity revolution – resource efficiency.
Patrick's paper lays out in clear, functional terms how we can leverage large pent up pools of demand for walkable communities, regenerative agriculture, and a revolution in resource productivity to unlock the excess liquidity we have in our economy, get it working to fuel a new American grand strategy, and shift the direction of our nation in the 21st Century.
Business schools across the planet are teaching the new generation of business leaders that growth is the only way to succeed, using economic principals created in the midst of the industrial revolution when natural resources were seemingly boundless.
"Set aside climate change, revolution, and dwindling resources, and assume our society lasts the next two centuries.
The Adelca case shows us why the resource revolution is worthwhile, yet still so slow in happening.
But global capital does not solve big world issues: debt and financial crisis, political paralysis or gridlock, the transformative effects of the digital revolution, climate change, resource shortages, shifting demographics.
We had an enlightening session with Fraser Thompson, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, exploring their work on the resource revolution needed to open up sustainable access to a wide range of products and services for a forecast surge of three billion more middle-class consumers.
Fences arose during the Neolithic revolution to demarcate resource-rich areas (food sources) and exclude threats (intruders).
The upcoming resource revolution necessitates massive reductions of materials and energy flows per output to keep up within the rising commodity prices but also with the limits of the earth's carrying capacity [29].
How much this matters was explaind by Stanford's Stefan Heck, who laid out the coming resource revolution, which will be driven by the fact that the world today is supporting 100 times more consumers, with 10 times more income and a growth rate that is 10 times faster than ever before.
