One child? I thought you got SS payments. On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:57 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, [again] David > > The idea of breakthrough suggests that "we" know where "we" are going. In > my life time, we have had a zillion breakthrough's only to screw things up > again through overpopulation and greed. There is no breakthrough that does > not include our some how agreeing that, say, one car, or one house, or, > even, one child, one wife, is ... enough. Somehow aspiration has to be > decoupled from the environment. This is where you Buddhists come in, no? > > I am afraid Taleb is just going to be a feeder of dinosaurs. > > N > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 5:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] green swans > > Just ordered, hardcover (two weeks before it gets here probably) and kindle > (will read later today.) Looks very interesting but will send review later. > > > https://www.amazon.com/Green-Swans-Coming-Regenerative-Capitalism/dp/1732439 > 125/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588678839&sr=8-1-spons > <https://www.amazon.com/Green-Swans-Coming-Regenerative-Capitalism/dp/1732439125/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588678839&sr=8-1-spons> > > "If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are problems that take us > exponentially toward breakdown, then "Green Swans" are solutions that take > us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success--and survival--of > humanity > now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second." > > davew > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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