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Getting to zero won’t be easy. Harmful emissions are caused by many things that we’ve come to take for granted. Electricity, heating, transportation, large-scale agriculture, and fundamental construction tools like iron and cement – all of these areas will require serious rethinking if we’re to reach the goal.

Growth was the ultimate goal of the social media era. We pursued more friends, more followers and more likes, on as many platforms as possible. A decade later, we're finding ourselves hyper-connected but emotionally unfulfilled. More hasn't made us happy. Instead, we're sadder, lonelier, and anxiety-ridden.

"Consider all the prepositions that are draped onto verbs that don’t need any help. We no longer head committees. We head them up. We don’t face problems anymore. We face up to them when we can free up a few minutes. A small detail, you may say— not worth bothering about. It is worth bothering about. Writing improves in direct ratio to the number o... See more

Second is that we’ve seen all the historical forms of musical creativity get obsoleted by machines, which has mostly resulted in more human creativity. Every instrument can be played extremely well by a computer without decades of study. Somehow this hasn’t obviated the need for drummers or guitar players or violinists, but rather created a whole

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Encouraging an existing behavior requires less convincing than discouraging an existing behavior.