Climate change and economic inequality pose immense and inextricable challenges to the United States: How to reimagine the American way of life to address the impacts of global warming, and how to build a new and robust economic structure that offers viable and sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles across the income spectrum for all Americans.
The Five Thousand Pound Life—an Architectural League initiative of public events, digital publications, and a planned design study—is a contribution to what must be a collective effort spanning geographies, generations, occupations, disciplines, and ideologies to address these challenges.
We have become a society that wants what we want when we want it, delivered directly to us. How is the possibility of and demand for immediate consumer gratification reverberating backwards through the processes and infrastructure that make it possible? What do this demand, and other simultaneous developments, including autonomous trucking and robotic distribution systems, mean for labor, land use, traffic congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions?
In this video, which was recorded during a daylong conference focused on ground transportation and climate change, Steve Viscelli examines possible scenarios for how goods will move in the future and the critical necessity for good public policy to shape outcomes. Adam Lomasney discusses FreightNYC, New York City’s plan to decarbonize and make more efficient the movement of goods in the city.
Logistics scholar and designer Jesse LeCavalier introduces Viscelli and Lomasney.
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