
Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
The Dig
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Science vs Capitalism
For capitalism, science is dangerous and needs immediately to be bought. And since then, one project of science is to try to free itself for the good by pointing out that the bad is really bad. Now in this moment of climate crisis, where science is saying, look, we can't go on the way we're going. One it'll wreck our bio infer structure, and we will all suffer accordingly. And then capitalism says, no, no,. no. We can always make a profit, but profit itself, by definition, is exploitation and unsustainably. So i see a kind of hindu god type conflict. This has been true for me for the last 30 years - just
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