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Creighton
The entire story of a civilization, or a community, centers around energy: its availability; its production; the uses to which it is put. Whether need outstrips them all.
In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening... See more
Albert Burneko • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”
As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.
Rebekah Diski • Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current
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What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures? - Yale E360
Elizabeth Kolbert • What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
And, quite simply, any technology requiring hundreds of billions of dollars to prove itself is built upon bad architecture. There is no historical precedent for anything that OpenAI needs to happen. Nobody has ever raised the amount of money it will need, nor has a piece of technology required such an incredible financial and systemic force — such... See more