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Science’s New Battle Plan: 36 Strategies to Defeat Climate Change
The paper, “Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges” by Nathan Johnson and Iain Staffell, argues that climate models are powerful scientific tools, but very often way too complex for ordinary people, journalists, and policymakers. As you can see from the carefully chosen title of the paper, scientists basically admitted that climate change…
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The Big Convergence
Back in 1959, Eugene Paul Wigner, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, delivered a lecture at New York University in which he spoke about “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”. In the lecture, he argued that many mathematical concepts that initially appeared to be just abstract ideas were later found to perfectly describe…
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The Panic: Should we or should we not, or what?
For all we know, Socrates was patient-zero of technological doomerism. But writing was only the beginning of advanced, disruptive and panic inducing technology. With the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe entered the era of technological stagnation, aka medieval period or the dark ages. Many contemporary historians completely reject the “dark age” classification . They argue…