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From Lagos to L.A., pathways to sustainable employment will be subject to immense, unpredictable, and fast-evolving dislocations.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Daily Planet #3
This third edition of the Daily Planet might feel very unplanetary, but to the extent that China will be a/the Climate Leviathan of the future, Wang Huning's thinking about political ecology will determine our planetary condition.
Wang is the most powerful intellectual in the world and - if it comes to pass - the architect of a
... See moreThe tendency all too often is to see urban form as a finite thing, a closed thing, a complicated object. I want to stress what we know instead to be the case — that a city, however perfect its initial shape, is never complete, never at rest. Thousands of witting and unwitting acts every day alter its lines in ways that are perceptible only over a
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Whether in the developing or developed world, planetary sustainability requires grass-roots activists and leaders who comprehend the necessity of transcending the limits of interests and place while pursuing ways to respond to local problems.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
In previous centuries national identities were forged because humans faced problems and opportunities that were far beyond the scope of local tribes and which only countrywide cooperation could hope to handle. In the twenty-first century, nations find themselves in the same situation as the old tribes: they are no longer the right framework to
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The third category is methodological and conceptual. My goal as a scholar is to replace the still dominant ‘national-modernization’ model with the paradigm of ‘sustainable modernity’ for the humanistic disciplines.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
