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Climate Change: What About the Marxists?

Climate Change: What About the Marxists? Photo Source Akuppa John Wigham | CC BY 2.0 Author John Steinbeck in 1962 asked, “Why must progress look so much like destruction?” (1) In fact, ever-expanding production of things – progress, in other words – promotes destruction in the form of climate change. Perpetrators of boundless production dominate […]

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Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin

Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.” – Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and […]

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Volatility and the Alchemy of Risk

Volatility and the Alchemy of Risk Reflexivity in the Shadows of Black Monday 1987 The Ouroboros, a Greek word meaning ‘tail devourer’, is the ancient symbol of a snake consuming its own body in perfect symmetry. The imagery of the Ouroboros evokes the infinite nature of creation from destruction. The sign appears across cultures and […]

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What Defines Appropriate Technology?

WHAT DEFINES APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY? OUR CURRENT ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY If there is one defining aspect of our modern civilization it´s that we are a technological species. Compared to other organisms with whom we share this planet, we Homo sapiens aren´t exactly well adapted to long term survival. We have no coat of fur to keep […]

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Sociocultural Boundaries

Sociocultural Boundaries Some years ago now a team of Swedish scientists proposed an interesting framework for understanding planetary environmental problems. It generated a range of responses from the environmental community, mostly positive. I had what is undoubtedly a very unusual response to their framework, and while it is perhaps old news, it may still be […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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