Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future. In which localism prevails and power moves from the top-down to the grass-roots. Prosperity will decline and life will again be worth living.
Productivity growth in the U.K. has flatlined since the Global Financial Crisis and has now been reset to levels of growth not seen since the 1850s, a new report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Citi highlighted. I invited ChatGPT to imagine a future based on how things were in 1750. As …
In a world where the once-reliable rhythms of nature—spring rains, summer heat, autumn harvests—have been thrown into disarray, humanity will face an unprecedented challenge: learning to grow food without the guidance of seasons. The collapse of these natural cycles will disrupt farming and force a radical rethinking of how humans interact with the earth. In …
Hosted by:The Club of RomeThe Council for the Human Future Roundtable on the Human FutureOnline, July 2024 Link to the Report Summary1.1 The Human Predicament Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks.The crisis is already here, and will get worse. Its combined scale and impact are so great …
How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy. Christopher Ketcham October 29 2023, 8:00 a.m. William Nordhaus, who turned 82 this year, was the first economist in our time to attempt to quantify the cost of climate change. His climate-modeling wizardry, which won him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018, …
Alan Bates: We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can’t possibly happen again. Copied from: My New 12 Trillion-dollar Annual Budget “We’ll not have to tighten our belts anywhere.“ Full fossil fuel price reform would reduce …
