On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < [email protected]> wrote:
> On the urgent and important issues we're facing and the need of tools, > like Leo, to overcome part of it > . > Thanks for the encouraging words. I agree that improving Leo is probably > the most effective thing I can do. > > > I strongly recommend this: > > https://via.hypothes.is/http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ > > (commented version with hypothesis) > Yes, we must move towards renewables and all the rest, but that's not going to be enough. I stand by my prediction that CO2 emissions will continue to increase, regardless of renewables. Increased renewables *and *increased emissions are *not* incompatible. > I think we need to do stuff that makes sense in that scenario, not because > we're going to save the world for sure, but because the world deserves, > that effort from us, at least, as a existential way of giving ourselves > sense to it in the middle of chaos. > I agree. I'm also in morning for the natural world. On our trip Rebecca and I visited Banff and Jasper. They have been turned into Disney Land. I'll never go back. Imo, technologists and physicists don't understand that it is biology that is the foundation of the world. We are destroying it. Technological "solutions" are driven by the market and often increase pressure on the natural world. Market failures will not be cured by technology. We need a new way or organizing the efforts of billions of people. I despair of it happening. Compounding the already insurmountable problems is our flawed intellectual apparatus. The human brain is subject to dozens of cognitive biases <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias>. The rise of all sorts of denialists, especially in the last 15 years, is truly horrifying. An op-ed piece in today's Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/opinion/campaign-stops/did-you-hear-the-latest-about-hillary.html> discusses just how daunting the situation is. I won't apologize for laying out the problems as I have. This is not a matter of being "optimistic" or "pessimistic". We must start with stark realism. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
