What will the world look like in 2040? That’s the question Damon Gameau asks at the start of his new film called 2040. It’s a documentary that has a big impact because of its optimism. It dispenses with the dystopian future envisioned by so many sci-fi films. Instead, he takes a trip around the world looking for the sustainable technology of the future, that’s available today.

The film’s framed around Damon’s four-year-old daughter, and it jumps between the present and an imagined future, the year 2040 when his daughter will be 21. He sees a world where traditional farming techniques are used to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, where fields of sea-weed are grown in the ocean to feed us, and where small scale solar power systems can help less-developed communities leapfrog the need for complex, centralised power grids and instead harvest power from the sun and sell the excess to their neighbours.

The vital point here is that this isn’t fantasy, this is technology that’s already online, and if we embrace it, then not only can we help shift towards a renewable and circular economy, but the businesses that lead the way, the pioneers, well they’re looking like pretty damn savvy long-term investments.

It was great to have Damon in the Studio at Hub Australia in Sydney. You’ll be hard pressed to find a bigger advocate for a shift towards sustainability than Damon. He’s working tirelessly to spread the message and it’s all well aligned with what we’re trying to do here at Good Future.

Final all the show-notes at www.johntreadgold.com