Energy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our Future - The CGO

supply. As lakes and aquifers shrink or get polluted, it’s getting harder to provide potable water to everyone who needs it. Most of the world’s megacities already face severe shortages, and if nothing changes, by mid-century the number of people who can’t get enough decent water at least once a month will rise by more than a third, to over 5 billi

Thanks to cheap steel and a whole set of new institutions, the economy entered a phase of globalization. Capital was also deployed to produce, transport and distribute electricity, a new form of energy that would later lift production and consumption up to an even larger scale.