When I was in business, my sales team would occasionally write proposals for services that my company had never delivered, and someone would ask, “Craig, if we get this project, how will we deal with it?” My normal response: “I’m …
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While there’s no clear answer here, the preponderance of scientific minds through the ages have been and continue to be pessimistic, for the precise reason that Newton asserted at left. It’s entirely possible that humankind, with its blend of greed, …
If I were asked to make the prediction posed below, I would say none of the above, and suggest that some combination of environmental collapse, certainly including climate change, will wipe out many, but not all human beings. There is …
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society. Most obviously, we have environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular. The longer we delay our efforts to decarbonize our energy and …
Here we are, about 150 years after Marx made this statement, and we can now see that he was wrong. Humankind has and will continue to embrace capitalism until organized life on this planet is gone, via some combination of …
Yes, our planet is facing ruination in the form of droughts, wildfires, flooding, desertification, loss of landmass, food shortages, loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification. The question: Why didn’t we do anything about it? can only be answered as follows: …
OK, what exactly is the point? How about this: Rich white people get richer. Everybody else faces some blend of exploitation: discrimination, hunger, impoverishment, disease, poor education, scarce resources, death/injury in war, etc. In the Native American communities. decisions are …
This quote from Robert Oppenheimer is interesting. Obviously, there is no precedent in human history for anything resembling this. My best guess: regardless of the type of disaster, i.e., nuclear conflagration or environmental collapse, there will be plenty of survivors. …
I’m not 100% sure what this Tesla owner is trying to communicate. I’m hoping it’s something like: “Laughing out loud at the idea that oil is a sustainable auto fuel.” Maybe it’s “Laughing in the face of Big Oil, because …
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
