My wife, who is far from being the cynic of the family (that would be me), often concludes that humanity is a failed experiment. It is not an assessment with which I disagree. I often find myself pondering why and how we have reached our current perilous, likely terminal, state.
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Northern Reflections: The Endgame
It’s time, climate scientists warn, to consider the endgame — human extinction. Damien Carrington writes: The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis. They call such a catastrophe the “climate endgame”. Though it had a small chance of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: An Impassioned Plea to Tear Down the Walls of Inequality from Stephen Hawking.
The neoliberals who have driven the western world into the ditch over the past three decades need to decide whether to rehabilitate liberal democracy or allow themselves to be erased from memory by generations of strongman rule. Yeah, Justin – you too. First up, theoretical physicist extraordinaire, Stephen Hawking. In
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