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.
I have written this piece in anticipation of the UK’s possible collapse of financial and public service systems due to the current turmoil. ChatGPT has provided evidence of what is happening outside the UK. It should be seen as a prompt for discussion based on what is happening worldwide. When cities experience a shift from …
“The liberal international order is slowly coming apart. Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible… “For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse. A worrying number of triggers could set off a descent into anarchy…” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/05/09/the-liberal-international-order-is-slowly-coming-apart
This Earth Day, I find myself thinking about Star Trek. And not in a good way.When I was a teenager I watched episodes of Gene Roddenberry’s classic original TV series multiple times—on original broadcast, reruns, and video rentals. I thought it was a little cheesy, but entertaining and, at its best, thought-provoking. When, in 2021, …
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, …
Copied from The Automatic Earth. August 2012 Alexander Aston: I think about history … a lot. It has always been my deepest fascination. When I was little I would construct whole civilizations with my Legos and play out their existence. Monuments would be constructed, kings would die, wars would start, cities would be rebuilt, lineages …
