🔮 Kids and the climate crisis; the end of TV; Belt-and-road to nowhere; young Mona & vegan pies++ #260

📅 As the demand for lithium-ion batteries grows, so does the challenge of their proper recycling. Ajay Kochhar, the CEO of North America’s largest li-ion battery recycling plant, is the guest of our upcoming private member’s briefing. Ajay will discuss how batteries can be recycled safely, while extracting 80-100% of reusable li-ion, nickel and cobalt.

All members who can’t attend, will receive notes and the recording.

The near future

💯 Physicist Cesar Hidalgo joined me on the latest episode of the podcast. We discussed the difficulties of measuring knowledge, the economics of megacities, machines and morality, and why we need to apply a complexity approach to judging decision-making in machines. Have a listen.

🍼 Meehan Crist: is it right to bring a child into a world of climate crisis? “[T]he fantasy of choice quickly begins to dissipate when we acknowledge that the conditions for human flourishing are distributed so unevenly, and that, in an age of ecological catastrophe, we face a…