Banning Garrett, of Singularity University faculty, is deemed a strategic thinker, author, speaker, and entrepreneur who concentrates on exponential technologies and their intersection with long-term global trends, urbanization, and geopolitics. Garrett has spent a good portion of his career studying the environment, demographic and climates changes, growing populations in urban regions, and political trends, most of which he feels are harmful. In this interview, Garrett details his concerns about the trajectory we are on regarding a number of global challenges we are facing in today’s world. He explores where technologies are at now and how we can incorporate them into a viable pathway for societies to build a better environmental and economic future.