`The California way: sunny, with a chance of apocalypse’ (recommended read)

Posted on 25 August 2017 by ecoquant

This article at the San Francisco Chronicle is by Jon Christensen.

Dystopian scenarios encourage us to act in such a way that the dystopia does not come to be.

Professor Christensen has written more recently about this as well.

This continues an idea documented by Buckminster Fuller in his book Utopia or Oblivion:

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment. . . . Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe

About ecoquant

See https://wordpress.com/view/667-per-cm.net/ Retired data scientist and statistician. Now working projects in quantitative ecology and, specifically, phenology of Bryophyta and technical methods for their study.
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