The insular nature of the “abundance agenda” is revealed just two pages into Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book, Abundance, as the authors paint a picture of their idyllic future.

“You open the refrigerator. In the fruit and vegetables drawer are apples, tomatoes, and an eggplant, shipped from the nearest farm, mere miles away. These crops don’t grow horizontally, across fields. They grow vertically on tiered shelves inside a tall greenhouse. … These skyscraper farms spare countless acres for forests and parks. … When your parents were young, nearly 25 percent of global land was used to raise livestock for human consumption. That is unimaginable now. Much of that land has been rewilded.”