# '5 -15%' > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [675]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2022-08-22 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVGxxgNE7U. Text: automatic captions, mostly corrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Spiral economy as a carbon strategy. - Career works it belongs to: - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine) - Plausible Utopias (2012): Talk deck for the Meaning conference: abundance breaks the financial system, because housing is... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine) - Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green development path is... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Capitalism, consumption & resources (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: circular economy (2 here; 17 sources in all, earliest dated 2019); real estate (1 here; 106 sources in all, earliest dated 2013, 2 undated); Mattereum (1 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); markets (1 here; 159 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 6 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 518 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [778] [Vinay Gupta on the Future of the Metaverse (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/778.md); [735] [Vinay Gupta - Mattereum (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md); [800] [Lecture by Vinay Gupta at the opening event of Data in... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/800.md) - On the same works, just after: [572] [How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics,... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md); [749] [Vinay Gupta: AI's Impact on Jobs and Society (2023)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/749.md); [727] [Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: '5 -15%', video, 2022-08-22, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVGxxgNE7U; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [675], https://guptaoption.com/texts/675.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVGxxgNE7U&t=0s) what i'm after is a revolution in how we do the manufactured goods of the world such that we can start really seriously slashing people's co2 footprints so you know my goal here is you know a circular economy that works so that people can get access to physical things when they need them but those physical things will work way harder than they are right now um and that is an approach you know we're going to have to go through a phase where what we do is like massive financial engineering and we turn Mattereum into a really big serious powerful company to get that done um but on the far side of that you know the big goal for us is not like ooh we've managed to totally transform the world's real estate markets like if we're going to do that we're going to do on the way to something bigger and something bigger is we're going to make the bloody circular economy work and we're going to take somewhere between 5 and 15 of the total environmental footprint of the human race --- End of [675] '5 -15%'. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [572](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md) How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics,... (2022); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.