Don’t be so quick to dismiss Taleb’s prediction as just another political “conspiracy theory,” as so many naysayers have done on climate change, despite the heavy weight of scientific evidence to the contrary. Nassim Taleb, a renowned New York University (NYU) professor recently raised eyebrows when he said genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have the potential to cause […]
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To thine own self be true? How does this relate anymore to the world we endure? How can we feel and be engaged rather than numb and dulled by how much we face?
BEFORE THE BEES ARE GONE Found on Avaaz: People-powered politics to decision-making worldwide Right now, billions of bees are dying. Already, there are nowhere near enough honeybees in Europe to pollinate the crops, and in California — the biggest food producer in the US — beekeepers are losing 40% of their bees each year. We’re in […]
Against Certainty Jane Hirschfield There is something out in the dark that wants to correct us. Each time I think “this,” it answers “that.” Answers hard, in the heart-grammar’s strictness. If I then say “that,” it too is taken away. Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity. When the cat waits in the path-hedge, […]
Lord Rees of Ludlow – Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, lectures on surviving the century-talks about the anthropogenic age. Our Earth has existed for 45 million centuries. But the present century is the first when one species — ours — has the planet’s future in its hands. We have forecasts of the pressures that will stem from […]
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