Tag: humanity
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The balance sheet
Imagine if tomorrow morningEvery single person’s bank account defaulted to exactly one million dollars.USD of course.Imagine the outrage, the joy, the despair, the relief.Everyone stay calm!It’s a technical glitch.A very few would say.We just need to adjust some code and everything will go back the way it should be.But it is not a glitch.And almost…
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90 seconds.
90 seconds.still plenty of timeto forget The DOOMSDAY clock has recently been adjusted to stand at 90 seconds to midnight. It has never been this close. What is the Doomsday clock? SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/ Ok, 90 seconds. Bullet point the reasons for me. SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/nuclear-risk/ Listen, now you are depressing me. Can’t you just review a…
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The ones who walk away.
The following passage is an excerpt from Iain McGilchrist’s magnificent book ‘The Matter With Things’ Ursula Le Guin’s searing short story, ‘The ones who walk away from Omelas’, describes a city of extraordinary beauty, whose people lead lives of delight, great wholesomeness and vitality. They are a morally and politically sophisticated society, technologically not advanced,…
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There is no snooze button on the doomsday clock.
Midnight.This worldtips over. Last night I read that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has had its power cut for the second time this week, leaving it to rely on backup diesel generators (they have 10 days of fuel) to prevent any nuclear catastrophe. The plant is currently surrounded by Russian forces, whilst Putin continues to…
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