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Only nuclear energy is a viable “stock limited” resource where the stocks are much larger than the jack pot from fossil fuels.

Time to prioritize solving critical problems again, before destruction of the Earth systems we depend on triggers civilizational collapse, and humanity’s brief jaunts into space become a barely-remembered memory or even just a myth.

But why lament the disappearance of something that never could have lasted? There will be something on the other side, and that may be something we can be proud of.

Instead of making the job of defeating climate change unnecessarily difficult, it is long past time we starting taking the easy route too planetary salvation dictated by the laws of thermodynamics.

Steve Keen’s book, The New Economics: A Manifesto (2021), offers a new path for economics, and for good reason. In his view, neoclassicism, the paradigm that rules modern-day economics, has become a serious menace: I regard Neoclassical economics as not merely a bad methodology for economic analysis, but as an existential threat to the continued […]

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

University of California San Diego Physics Professor Tom Murphy is among five authors of an essay, appearing in the November 2021 issue of the journal