[FRIAM] green swans

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Hi, [again] David

The idea of breakthrough suggests that "we" know where "we" are going.   In
my life time, we have had a zillion breakthrough's only to screw things up
again through overpopulation and greed.  There is no breakthrough that does
not include our some how agreeing that, say, one car, or one house, or,
even, one child, one wife,  is ... enough.  Somehow aspiration has to be
decoupled from the environment.  This is where you Buddhists come in, no?  

I am afraid Taleb is just going to be a feeder of dinosaurs.  

N

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 5:45 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] green swans

Just ordered, hardcover (two weeks before it gets here probably) and kindle
(will read later today.) Looks very interesting but will send review later.

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Swans-Coming-Regenerative-Capitalism/dp/1732439
125/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588678839&sr=8-1-spons

"If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are problems that take us
exponentially toward breakdown, then "Green Swans" are solutions that take
us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success--and survival--of humanity
now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second."

davew

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