Christian Dimmer
@remmid.bsky.social
dad／urbanist／assoc.prof. transition design + urban studies｜waseda university｜Tokyo｜co-learning／co-design｜public spaces／spheres｜urban practices／theories｜place {un}making／becoming｜climate + sustainability／resilience
Reposted by Christian Dimmer
That's according to energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, whose 2025 book More and More and More is a splash of ice-cold Evian on the California-SunKist Abundance discourse.
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
That's according to energy historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, whose 2025 book More and More and More is a splash of ice-cold Evian on the California-SunKist Abundance discourse.
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
(He even calls out Vaclav Smil for being overly optimistic!)
Absolutely. You can only harden infrastructure so much to make it resilient. We’re nearing the end of the line when it comes to tinkering. To go beyond that, we need greater walkability, better cycling infrastructure, more mixed land uses, and a decentralization of labor and temporal urban rhythms.
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Absolutely. You can only harden infrastructure so much to make it resilient. We’re nearing the end of the line when it comes to tinkering. To go beyond that, we need greater walkability, better cycling infrastructure, more mixed land uses, and a decentralization of labor and temporal urban rhythms.