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Climate, politics and the narrow vision of futurists

Climate, politics and the narrow vision of futurists Most people know the tale of the blind men and the elephant. Each describes a part of the elephant. The elephant is said to be like a pillar by the blind man touching the elephant’s leg. The one touching the elephant’s tail says the elephant is like […]

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10 years after the oil price spike: Is peak oil a process rather than a moment?

10 years after the oil price spike: Is peak oil a process rather than a moment? Ten years ago this week—July 11, 2008 to be exact—the price of a barrel of oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit an intraday high of $147.27, its highest price ever. By the following autumn the world economy […]

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The global village and the surveillance society

The global village and the surveillance society Media savant Marshall McLuhan coined the term “global village” in 1962 in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy. Today, we take the concept of an electronically connected global population with instant access to practically every plugged-in person on the planet as a fact of life. We often see our […]

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Be kind, it’s all connected

Be kind, it’s all connected In a conversation over the holiday I posited to a friend that the modern worldview which guides human action practically worldwide has all the hallmarks of a religion. I contended that this “religion” is at the root of our ecological predicament and that changing the current perilous trajectory of humankind […]

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Hanjin shipping bankruptcy: ‘Efficient’ just-in-time delivery not so efficient after all

Hanjin shipping bankruptcy: ‘Efficient’ just-in-time delivery not so efficient after all We are about to learn once again that lack of resilience is the flip side of efficiency. The world’s seventh largest shipping firm, Korean-based Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd., failed to rally the support of its creditors last week and was forced to file for bankruptcy. […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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