John Brockman runs a very interesting website called The Edge. Each year he asks a provocative question to some of best thinkers on the planet, and then publishes their answers […]
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Beyond Adversity
Isn’t it time that we stopped war. Not just this particular war, but the very institution of war itself? Molly Ivens The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop […]
Continue readingThe Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency
The Council on Foreign Relations established an Independent Task Force to examine the consequences of dependence on imported energy for U.S. foreign policy. Since the United States both consumes and […]
Continue readingThe Oil Mirage
Posted at the author’s website on January 15, 2007. James Howard Kunstler The American public is understandably happy to see the bottom fall out of the oil futures market. But […]
Continue readingHumanity’s Worst Mistake
Jared Diamond wrote: To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions […]
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