[FRIAM] green swans

[Frank Wimberly]

One child?  I thought you got SS payments.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:57 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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>
> "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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