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Green New Physics

March 21, 2019

Green New Physics You could probably say I’m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I’m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I’m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of […]

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How the light gets in

November 13, 2018

How the light gets in The science behind growth scepticism The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich’s essay on the ‘The secret of eternal growth’. CC.0 :: ipicgr / pixabay.com It’s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich’s The Secret of Eternal Growth was published so close to Halloween. It’s so […]

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Should we Prepare for a New World War? Answers from the Patterns of Past

November 11, 2018

Should we Prepare for a New World War? Answers from the Patterns of Past  I know that I have crammed together too many ideas here: Tolstoy, St. Francis, critical phenomena, thermodynamics, and more,  – it is contrary to the rules of blog posts. But the centennial of the end of the Great War gave me […]

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Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it

April 18, 2017

Split personalities: We like some science, but not all of it We modern folk are in a bind. We embrace what the sciences and the technology that flows from them have to offer, but we refuse to believe that we live in the world described by those very sciences. Here I’m not merely talking about […]

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