“…creativity and innovation is not closely tied to climate or ecology or culture. It's deeply path dependent. Innovations happen and people come up with new ideas…new ways of thinking about society and people's roles in it…how you organize it and what's legitimate. And those innovations take off, or they spread, or they don't, or they backfire. You have to…think about innovation in human society and how that accumulated in some parts of the world, and how it spread[…]” • https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/newly-minted-nobel-prize-winner-james