Guest Lecture ETH Zurich, spring semester 2017, May 17th / 2019, May 18th
within the seminar Energy, Resources, Environment. Risks and Prospects
by Oliver Zenklusen and Thomas Flüeler
within the seminar Energy, Resources, Environment. Risks and Prospects
by Oliver Zenklusen and Thomas Flüeler
1. Presentation slides (PDF 334 kByte)
2. Supplementary material
2.1 Silvio Borner: «Von Sklaven und Segeln», in: NZZ, March 31st, 2017
This is an extreme example of an economist arguing with historical arguments free of historical knowledge
but committed to a very simplistic notion of progress. Borner is prof. em. for economics at the University
of Basel.
2.2 «An Ecomodernist Manifesto», presented by The Breakthrough Institute, April 2015
The manifesto is an extreme (and typically californian in many aspects) example of techno-optimism, aimed
at solving the ecological «challenges».
2. Supplementary material
2.1 Silvio Borner: «Von Sklaven und Segeln», in: NZZ, March 31st, 2017
This is an extreme example of an economist arguing with historical arguments free of historical knowledge
but committed to a very simplistic notion of progress. Borner is prof. em. for economics at the University
of Basel.
2.2 «An Ecomodernist Manifesto», presented by The Breakthrough Institute, April 2015
The manifesto is an extreme (and typically californian in many aspects) example of techno-optimism, aimed
at solving the ecological «challenges».