In an adaptation from his new book, The Wall Street Journal’s obituary writer reflects on the importance of preserving the stories of your life, both for yourself and your loved ones.
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In an adaptation from his new book, The Wall Street Journal’s obituary writer reflects on the importance of preserving the stories of your life, both for yourself and your loved ones.
In an adaptation from his new book, The Wall Street Journal’s obituary writer reflects on the importance of preserving the stories of your life, both for yourself and your loved ones.
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Conventional wisdom would have us believe that our insatiable needs and desires require more and more natural goods, inexorably stripping the planet of precious resources. But a funny thing happened on the way to catastrophe, Mr. McAfee explains: We started to innovate our way out of it. In particular, we began to “dematerialize”—make better stuff while consuming less total material. Americans are now consuming less total steel, aluminum, copper, fertilizer, water, timber and paper than in previous years, even as our GDP has continued to soar and our agricultural yield has increased dramatically. As a result, asserts Mr. McAfee, a research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of “The Second Machine Age” (2014): “Resource scarcity isn’t something we need to worry about.” Credit the market, he says, for this environment-sparing miracle. It’s good business to use less aluminum in cans (today’s soda cans weigh roughly half an ounce; the first ones weighed almost 3); or to improve the load factors of expensive physical assets like railcars and aircraft; or to offer consumers a single smartphone instead of, separately, a camera, pocket organizer, calculator, clock and phone.
