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Miss Hottest September Ever

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — Dickens

Oct 14, 2023

Miss Hottest September Ever

Oct 14, 2023

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Superorganism Intelligence, Nuclear Power and the Metacrisis of Wisdom

Are we at the Fermi Paradox filter moment?

May 31, 2023

Superorganism Intelligence, Nuclear Power and the Metacrisis of Wisdom

May 31, 2023

Vanuatans in Wonderland

For a vanishing people, it is sue or swim.

Just now

Vanuatans in Wonderland

Just now

Supreme Dysphoria

Just give me that old-time religion

Dec 4

Supreme Dysphoria

Dec 4

Bringing Home the Baku

The election of Donald Trump was a social reaction to the loss of an unsustainable lifestyle. It was the first stage of grief.

Nov 27

Bringing Home the Baku

Nov 27

A Mayan Guide to Surviving Climate Change

(Spoiler: It Didn’t Work)

Nov 20

A Mayan Guide to Surviving Climate Change

Nov 20

Migration is not a New Thing

It is just a matter of scale

Nov 13

Migration is not a New Thing

Nov 13

The Algorithm Won

We are all Ice Road Truckers now, venturing out onto the frozen lake.

Nov 6

The Algorithm Won

Nov 6

Reactor’s Edge: Vance’s Nuclear Gambit

A visionary plan, a perfect storm, and the exodus that followed

Oct 30

Reactor’s Edge: Vance’s Nuclear Gambit

Oct 30

Revenge of the Luddites — Part Two: In which a child learns to read

There is something to be said for indigenous cultures that never developed a written language.

Oct 23

Revenge of the Luddites — Part Two: In which a child learns to read

Oct 23

Albert Bates

Albert Bates

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.

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