Lately, in observing our politics and dealing with our society, I feel like a time traveller who has been sent back to before the forthcoming collapse. There is no success to be had in warning pe...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/05/13/shrugging-our-way-through-the-breakdown-of-a-stable-world/
Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences. The study of CFOs showed that those who were most confident and optimistic about the S&P index were also ...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/05/12/kahneman-on-risks-from-excess-confidence-and-optimism/
I listened to the audiobook of Annie Jacobson’s Nuclear War. Having followed the subject and read a lot about it over the years, it nonetheless had a lot of new information inside of a compelli...
I have never seen George Monbiot’s bettered as career advice, though it will not lead to an easy life. For instance: What the corporate or institutional world wants you to do is the opposite of...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/04/30/whose-agenda-are-you-devoted-to/
Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute has closed, and they issued a final report about why. This is one of many bodies which tried a “multidisciplinarity + best people + biggest problems” a...
A few years after Bill McKibben, May Boeve is also ‘stepping back’ from the climate change activist group 350.org. The first three items on her list of accomplishments are all things I saw fi...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/04/26/may-boeve-stepping-back-at-350-org/
In January, my friend and mentor Peter Russell died. His son Alex invited me to give remarks at his funeral reception: Remarks at the funeral of Peter Russell Yesterday, I spoke at Innis College�...
Over the next few years, as I got to know the Dene better, I learned about how emissaries of the Canadian government had first entered the Dene lands and the conditions under which they negotiate...
Oceans of ink have been spilled arguing that social media and smartphones are the reason young people around the world are not doing well. While there may well be truth to that, to me the whole d...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/26/our-leaders-are-killing-our-kids/
A central assumption of many climate change activists and advocates for climate stability is that once people experience how destructive and painful climate change will be, they will become more ...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/18/what-if-we-never-respond-adaptively-to-climate-change/
Furthermore, intelligence, particularly beyond a certain level, may lead to behaviors that make acquiring or holding on to influence less likely. People who are exceptionally smart think they can...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/03/08/pfeffer-on-the-limitations-of-intelligence-as-a-path-to-power/
One of the many challenges on the road to fossil fuel abolition is the US-style of bankruptcy, where any valuable assets of a bankrupt corporation or individual are sold to help compensate their ...
https://www.sindark.com/2024/02/26/reform-bankruptcy-to-keep-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground/