The Ministry for the Future

monocausotaxophilia, the love of single ideas that explain everything, one of humanity’s most common cognitive

Having debunked the tragedy of the commons, they now were trying to direct our attention to what they called the tragedy of the time horizon. Meaning we can’t imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don’t charge ourselves for it, and t

until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.

“No one is safe until all are secure”

Many of them were now arguing that all the young people on Earth, and all the generations of humans in the centuries to come, and all their cousin creatures on the planet who could never speak for themselves, especially in court—all these living beings added up to something like a poor and vulnerable developing nation, a huge one, appearing inexora

Words are gossamer in a world of granite. There

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

“Yes. And of the same empire too. It’s funny how England never seemed to pay too much of a price for its crimes.” “No one does. You pay for being the victim, not the criminal.”

think the principle was set at Nuremberg—you’re wrong to obey orders that are wrong.”