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Dennis Meadows: “Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Cassandra - A Predictable World Has No Room for Choice

A predictable world has no room for choice, and a choosable world is not predictable. So if people had believed her, cassandra wouldn't actually have been able to foretell the future. We were trying to focus on things that we knew couldn't happen. And in that way, we kind of finessed the cassandra complex. I used to say in jest, i hoped we would be self defeating prophets. But  I haven't noticed that happening.

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