Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Is Human Civilization in Its Infancy or Near the Beginning?
Is human civilization in its infancy, or nearer its end than the beginning? So are we near the beginning or near the end? What do you think? Well, when i think about that question, i think civilization is ten thousand years old. That's when we started agriculture and started building cities. And so the question becomes, what can we be doing in ten thousand years from now? And it helps to find what i would call success or failure. Success really means sustainability. But if we're not pursuing that, we're just piling on failure and making it come sooner.
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