<div dir="ltr">One child?  I thought you got SS payments.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:57 AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi, [again] David<br>
<br>
The idea of breakthrough suggests that "we" know where "we" are going.   In<br>
my life time, we have had a zillion breakthrough's only to screw things up<br>
again through overpopulation and greed.  There is no breakthrough that does<br>
not include our some how agreeing that, say, one car, or one house, or,<br>
even, one child, one wife,  is ... enough.  Somehow aspiration has to be<br>
decoupled from the environment.  This is where you Buddhists come in, no?  <br>
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I am afraid Taleb is just going to be a feeder of dinosaurs.  <br>
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Nicholas Thompson<br>
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<br>
Clark University<br>
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From: Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> On Behalf Of Prof David West<br>
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 5:45 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a><br>
Subject: [FRIAM] green swans<br>
<br>
Just ordered, hardcover (two weeks before it gets here probably) and kindle<br>
(will read later today.) Looks very interesting but will send review later.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Green-Swans-Coming-Regenerative-Capitalism/dp/1732439125/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588678839&sr=8-1-spons" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Green-Swans-Coming-Regenerative-Capitalism/dp/1732439<br>
125/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588678839&sr=8-1-spons</a><br>
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"If Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans" are problems that take us<br>
exponentially toward breakdown, then "Green Swans" are solutions that take<br>
us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success--and survival--of humanity<br>
now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second."<br>
<br>
davew<br>
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