Jan Zelenák

From the Scarcity to the Positive Abundance System: Solar Energy, Automation, and the Self-Domestication of Humankind as Drivers of a Transition to a Post-Capitalist Post-Scarcity Society — A Positive Abundance and a Positive Future for People, Nature and the Earth

This working paper develops an integrated forecasting model for the transition of human societies from a scarcity system to an abundance system. Its starting point is that solar electricity follows a stable learning curve and is already the cheapest form of power generation. From near-zero-cost energy the paper derives...