Chomsky pointing out the obvious
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Distant tweet memory
Kalnay & co. deserve more credit
Pollin (whom we admire) is better than this...but probably needs more space to balance this out. 'What is GDP?' and 'how much zero carbon energy will we be able to make by 2050, and where will it be?' are the real questions for whatever 'growth' is. vox.com/energy-and-env…
I've recently had a strange pandemic reading experience, reading back-to-back novels by mid-century male writers John Fowles and JP Donleavy, born a month apart in 1926.
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Their most famous books are both about 'cads,' one in a surreal narrative, and one in a comic narrative. But the casual misogyny in both books stands out. The books couldn't be written today, not because that behavior is gone (it's around) but because that world doesn't exist.
And the world that produced those minds doesn't exist, anymore, either.
We needed to do this a f*ck of a lot faster on climate, but it will happen, and it's probably already happening. My guess is the minds that produced Facebook in 2004 will cease to be socially produced, replaced by equally capable but less isolated, solipsistic thinking.
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