Adam Dorr
@adamdorr.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist. Technology theorist. Director of Research at RethinkX. Optimist Prime. http://amzn.com/dp/B0BPGMW2B6/
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Adam Dorr
@adamdorr.bsky.social
· Oct 13
The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas
The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas [Dorr, Dr Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas
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The Degrowth Delusion is out today!
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
The Degrowth Delusion is out today!
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas
The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas [Dorr, Dr Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Degrowth Delusion: Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas
www.amazon.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Degrowth Delusion is out today!
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
“One of the most important books I’ve read in a decade at least. It’s a very long time since I read a book in just one day. That’s how good it is.” -- Mark Lynas
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMB4T8Z
October 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New interview of mine in @theguardian.com about AI, robots, and the disruption of human labor - perils and promise both:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’
Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepare
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
New interview of mine in @theguardian.com about AI, robots, and the disruption of human labor - perils and promise both:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I'm seeing a resurgence in climate change fear-mongering this week, centered on scenarios out to 2100 (!)🤣 🤦♂️ Climate change is real and a major challenge, but conventional @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios are technologically illiterate garbage. Here's why:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
Brighter | Episode 5 - Why understanding disruption matters
YouTube video by RethinkX
www.youtube.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm seeing a resurgence in climate change fear-mongering this week, centered on scenarios out to 2100 (!)🤣 🤦♂️ Climate change is real and a major challenge, but conventional @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios are technologically illiterate garbage. Here's why:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
RethinkX's groundbreaking new report 'Understanding Stellar Energy' is out now hubs.li/Q03mVSPV0
Understanding Stellar Energy (2025) (English)
Discover RethinkX's latest energy report, and how 100% clean electricity from solar, wind, and batteries can transform the energy sector by 2030, making it more affordable and sustainable worldwide.
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May 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
RethinkX's groundbreaking new report 'Understanding Stellar Energy' is out now hubs.li/Q03mVSPV0
Stop panicking. Can you even tell from global emissions data which US administration was in power over the last 75 years?The world will continue building and buying enormous amounts of solar and EVs, regardless of what happens in Washington. Technology and markets solve climate change, not policy.
March 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stop panicking. Can you even tell from global emissions data which US administration was in power over the last 75 years?The world will continue building and buying enormous amounts of solar and EVs, regardless of what happens in Washington. Technology and markets solve climate change, not policy.
For 15 years, my friends and colleagues across the environmental disciplines said AI and robots were "just science fiction" that would take "decades, if ever" to arrive. Funny I don't hear that anymore.
How does that crow taste? 🤣
How does that crow taste? 🤣
March 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For 15 years, my friends and colleagues across the environmental disciplines said AI and robots were "just science fiction" that would take "decades, if ever" to arrive. Funny I don't hear that anymore.
How does that crow taste? 🤣
How does that crow taste? 🤣
"Each sheet of A4 paper takes 10 liters of water to make". lol, no. That would mean the global paper industry uses 3x more water than the entire United States economy!
We need to get these things right, or the public will rightly dismiss our environmental concerns as unhinged.
We need to get these things right, or the public will rightly dismiss our environmental concerns as unhinged.
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Each sheet of A4 paper takes 10 liters of water to make". lol, no. That would mean the global paper industry uses 3x more water than the entire United States economy!
We need to get these things right, or the public will rightly dismiss our environmental concerns as unhinged.
We need to get these things right, or the public will rightly dismiss our environmental concerns as unhinged.
Wondering whether AI will be good or back for climate change? Or how robots are a cornerstone for solving our environmental problems? Here you go:
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism
Buy Brighter: Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders
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February 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wondering whether AI will be good or back for climate change? Or how robots are a cornerstone for solving our environmental problems? Here you go:
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
Reposted by Adam Dorr
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
Brighter | Episode 8 - How to solve climate change with disruption
YouTube video by RethinkX
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
Relax. Everything will be fine. Two things matter more than anything else: 1) avoid violent conflict, 2) make technological progress. That’s the cake. The rest is icing. Don’t lose sight of what’s most important.
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Relax. Everything will be fine. Two things matter more than anything else: 1) avoid violent conflict, 2) make technological progress. That’s the cake. The rest is icing. Don’t lose sight of what’s most important.
Crazy to see so many folks in a lather about AI and energy use. It’s pure nothingburger. Energy use will rise and virtually ALL of it will come from solar+wind+batteries. Everything else - gas, nuclear, hydrogen - will be a rounding error. Meanwhile, emissions will plummet. Stop panicking.
January 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Crazy to see so many folks in a lather about AI and energy use. It’s pure nothingburger. Energy use will rise and virtually ALL of it will come from solar+wind+batteries. Everything else - gas, nuclear, hydrogen - will be a rounding error. Meanwhile, emissions will plummet. Stop panicking.
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
Brighter | Episode 8 - How to solve climate change with disruption
YouTube video by RethinkX
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
With #climate there is massive over-attribution of causal power to US politics and policy. Biden, Trump, Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Conservative - doesn't matter. The differences in outcomes are rounding errors. #Technology, not policy, solves climate change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9N...
It's not too late to give something uplifting for the holidays!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBKYR1G
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBKYR1G
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
December 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
It's not too late to give something uplifting for the holidays!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBKYR1G
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBKYR1G
www.amazon.com/Brighter-Opt...
Reposted by Adam Dorr
Humanoid robots won’t just displace human jobs.. they will create an entirely new, vastly larger and more capable labor system 🌎 🤖 🚀
Read RethinkX's Top 15 Insights into the Inevitable Humanoid Robotics Disruption... www.rethinkx.com/labor/in-dep...
Read RethinkX's Top 15 Insights into the Inevitable Humanoid Robotics Disruption... www.rethinkx.com/labor/in-dep...
15 RethinkX Robotics Insights | RethinkX
Discover 15 insights on how humanoid robotics will revolutionize labor across all sectors in the next 15-20 years. Explore the inevitable disruption, new labor systems, and the rise of productivity.
www.rethinkx.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Humanoid robots won’t just displace human jobs.. they will create an entirely new, vastly larger and more capable labor system 🌎 🤖 🚀
Read RethinkX's Top 15 Insights into the Inevitable Humanoid Robotics Disruption... www.rethinkx.com/labor/in-dep...
Read RethinkX's Top 15 Insights into the Inevitable Humanoid Robotics Disruption... www.rethinkx.com/labor/in-dep...
Some days it's just too exhausting to deal with the sheer *wrongness* of the Doomer and Degrowther narratives around climate change and sustainability. If you're tired of all the fact-free pessimism and are hungry for some data-driven optimism for the holidays: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQT...
Brighter | Episode 11 - Doing 'less' is not a solution
YouTube video by RethinkX
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Some days it's just too exhausting to deal with the sheer *wrongness* of the Doomer and Degrowther narratives around climate change and sustainability. If you're tired of all the fact-free pessimism and are hungry for some data-driven optimism for the holidays: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQT...
Ever wonder what Elon Musk's real plan with Neuralink is? It's worth a LOT more than $440 billion. And it's not what either his fans or his haters think. Answer is in here:
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
More than the Sun and Stars
More than the Sun and Stars [Dorr, Adam] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. More than the Sun and Stars
www.amazon.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Ever wonder what Elon Musk's real plan with Neuralink is? It's worth a LOT more than $440 billion. And it's not what either his fans or his haters think. Answer is in here:
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
www.amazon.com/More-than-St...
Just a reminder that the conventional climate narrative is dead wrong because it fails to understand technology. We have no technology theory in our environmental science curricula (eg UM SEAS and @uclaioes.bsky.social), so we're easy targets for misinformation: youtu.be/Qfh83yqKkBc?...
Brighter | Episode 5 - Why understanding disruption matters
YouTube video by RethinkX
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Just a reminder that the conventional climate narrative is dead wrong because it fails to understand technology. We have no technology theory in our environmental science curricula (eg UM SEAS and @uclaioes.bsky.social), so we're easy targets for misinformation: youtu.be/Qfh83yqKkBc?...
Reposted by Adam Dorr
I’ll be streaming live on X Spaces starting 3pm ET Sunday for the launch of More than the Sun and Stars! Q&A/AMA, general conversation around #AI, #superintelligence, Neuralink-style BCIs, #disability, #scifi, #technology, and whatever else anybody wants to talk about! Stop by and bring friends!
November 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I’ll be streaming live on X Spaces starting 3pm ET Sunday for the launch of More than the Sun and Stars! Q&A/AMA, general conversation around #AI, #superintelligence, Neuralink-style BCIs, #disability, #scifi, #technology, and whatever else anybody wants to talk about! Stop by and bring friends!
Just a reminder that the conventional #climate narratives like those at #cop29 still get everything dead wrong: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
Brighter | Episode 5 - Why understanding disruption matters
YouTube video by RethinkX
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Just a reminder that the conventional #climate narratives like those at #cop29 still get everything dead wrong: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfh8...
I’ll be streaming live on X Spaces starting 3pm ET Sunday for the launch of More than the Sun and Stars! Q&A/AMA, general conversation around #AI, #superintelligence, Neuralink-style BCIs, #disability, #scifi, #technology, and whatever else anybody wants to talk about! Stop by and bring friends!
November 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I’ll be streaming live on X Spaces starting 3pm ET Sunday for the launch of More than the Sun and Stars! Q&A/AMA, general conversation around #AI, #superintelligence, Neuralink-style BCIs, #disability, #scifi, #technology, and whatever else anybody wants to talk about! Stop by and bring friends!
Band-aids treat symptoms. Real solutions treat the root cause.
Feeding seaweed to cows and cars are Band-aids. The REAL solutions are precision fermentation and cellular agriculture to disrupt cows, and EVs to disrupt ICE vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Feeding seaweed to cows and cars are Band-aids. The REAL solutions are precision fermentation and cellular agriculture to disrupt cows, and EVs to disrupt ICE vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Band-aids treat symptoms. Real solutions treat the root cause.
Feeding seaweed to cows and cars are Band-aids. The REAL solutions are precision fermentation and cellular agriculture to disrupt cows, and EVs to disrupt ICE vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Feeding seaweed to cows and cars are Band-aids. The REAL solutions are precision fermentation and cellular agriculture to disrupt cows, and EVs to disrupt ICE vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I see a lot of people hating on #AI #art here on Bluesky. I tried hiring artists for cover art for "More than the Sun and Stars", and didn't get acceptable results - although my budget was admittedly small. Then I created this cover myself with AI, and it's absolutely gorgeous.
November 25, 2024 at 2:32 PM