Gunnar Rundgren’s series has been genuinely eye opening. He strips away the comforting story that we can digitise our way out of ecological limits and brings it back to first principles. The economy, however abstract it looks on a screen, is still human labour turning natural resources into food, energy, and stuff, and producing waste along the way.

What I’ve appreciated across the whole series is how it keeps the complexity intact, and still stays readable. If we are serious about reducing footprint, we have to talk about growth, about what gets treated as “free” in the system, and about the separation between care, production, and consumption.

From a farming perspective, that framing feels especially grounding because it connects soil, energy, labour, and money in the same picture, which is where the real constraints actually live.