The World Around Us
by Jon Mead · updated 1mo ago
The World Around Us
by Jon Mead · updated 1mo ago
Jon Mead added 1mo ago
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
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Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.
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AI could consume up to 3.5% of the world’s electricity by 2030, according to an estimate from IT research and consulting firm Gartner.
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We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one.
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Altogether about 200,000 wild wolves still roam the earth, but there are more than 400 million domesticated dogs.1 The world contains 40,000 lions compared to 600 million house cats; 900,000 African buffalo versus 1.5 billion domesticated cows; 50 million penguins and 20 billion chickens.
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