Roots of Progress Abundance Push

Updated: 2025.08.19 6M ago 2 sources
Progress-movement actors (Roots of Progress, allied funders) reframe policy from 'negating negatives' (climate, pandemics) to 'raising the ceiling' (curing disease, abundant cheap energy, faster transport), aiming to redirect budgets and regulatory tolerance toward growth. — Narrative agendas shape what governments fund and permit; normalizing a ceiling-raising 'abundance' frame could shift R&D priorities, industrial policy, and public expectations beyond precaution-first governance.

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The Unlimited Horizon, part 2
Jason Crawford 2025.08.19 100% relevant
This manifesto chapter explicitly criticizes risk-only goals and paints a positive, sci‑fi‑becomes‑reality horizon as a motivating public agenda.
The Problem-Solving Animal, part 1
Jason Crawford 2025.06.03 90% relevant
The essay explicitly advances the progress/abundance narrative—arguing humans are 'problem‑solving' and that scarcity prophecies miss innovation and substitution—using Malthus and Jevons as canonical foils.
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