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Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"

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The Most Important Limitation on Knowledge Creation Is That We Cannot Prophesy

Common theme running through david attinburgh documentaries is that the natural world is swiftly coming to an end. In particular, when it comes to the very real problem of climate change and the increasing temperature. The overwhelming majority of purported solutions to climate change have not worked for a decade now. If we were to eliminate all fossil fuel use, which would cost more money than possibly the globe has, but let's say we did, the temperature would still increase. Polar ice claps woud polarize caps would still melt. There are many, many pressing problems from terrorism to the sun suddenly doing something that we didn't expect.

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