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BLOG: The "Doomsday clock" is not really a clock
— no longer much about nukes
— almost no positive framing which psychologists say drives action
— suggested positive version: "shoots for future growth"
READ HERE: robertinventor.substack.com/p/positive-f...
TEXT ON GRAPHIC Purple line: Nukes only (illustrative) Black line: Chatbots, AI, COVID, Deepfake, climate, … + bird flu WHO say no change in risk for bird flu from previous years. Not official. Not a clock. Not a doomsday. Not a time. A metaphor but for what? Means nothing. For action we need focus on positives and positive framing. Used to mean more. Just a graphic. Not 1 second closer to global warming or bird flu. Set it to midnight? Nothing happens. TEXT ON GRAPHIC Shoots for future growth: Assad's regime overthrown, and prisoners freed. Lets Syria reinvent itself and refugees return. Gaza Strip ceasefire holds and refugees return to Gaza city. Solar panel prices fell almost 10-fold in a decade Battery prices fell 33-fold since 1991 opening door to electric cars and shorthaul electric plane flights. - China's CO2 emissions peaked - IPBES pledges for 30% of land inland waters, coast and deep sea managed sustainably by 2030 - Huge advances in vaccines and therapeutics - Great green wall to reverse desertification south of the Sahara Desert well underway. - Iberian lynx makes remarkable comeback and many other conservation successes. - Deforestation rates falling in Brazil under Lula ...
January 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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debmaragopoulos.bsky.social
Seeing the Light in the darkest of times is a gift
Being the Light is a challenge
December 4, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
I can't wait to sit and write/draw and—zzzzzzzzzzzzz
a meme top panel is an image of bugs bunny dressed as a maestro conducting an orchestra, and is labelled "Writers and artists cooking up amazing ideas, excited to create later" as he raises his hand, with a serious, focused, passionate expression bottom panel is bugs bunny asleep in a desk chair in front of a computer on a desk and is labelled as "writers and artists when it's time to create"
November 25, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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dulaclab.bsky.social
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
November 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM