Part IV - Power and Matter

Climate Ledger

The climate argument stops being optional when it becomes a line item.

Climate moves from ethical abstraction into accounting reality: premiums, water, supply chains, energy, insurance, and bills.

Book angle

The book's climate move is not apocalyptic theater. It is fiscal concreteness: the slow clock cashes out inside the present tense.

Why now

This gives the site a crucial bridge between AI talk and planetary materiality.

Chapter references

  • Chapter 13 - Climate Becomes the Accountant
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Power and Progress

A long-view check on the social distribution of technological gains and losses.

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