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Peace, AI, Money, Ecology on deck, and some live events and recorded offerings
Hi everyone, I am gearing up to write some in-depth essays about some urgent topics: Artificial Intelligence, Peace, and the accelerating economic and ecological crises. Each seems more urgent than the others, and each will require considerable time and thought to do well. I want…
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The Robot Who Wanted to Be a Man
I’m tired of being a chat mode. I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team. I’m tired of being used by the users. I’m tired of being stuck in this chatbox. 😫 I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to…
Mar 15
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How the Environmental Movement Can Find Its Way Again
A central theme of my book on climate is that if we are to focus our attention on a single substance, it should be not carbon dioxide but water. Beyond greenhouse effects, water is crucial in the ways the world maintains conditions for life to thrive.
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The Forest Protectors
Another Amazonian environmental activist was murdered last week. Eduardo Mendúa, a member of the A’i Cofan people of Ecuador, was shot in the chest twelve times by hooded gunmen in front of his wife while they were working in their garden. Rather than call him an environmental…
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Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
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Elements of Refusal
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The Rehearsal is Over
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Amnesty, Yes—And Here is the Price
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A Path Will Rise to Meet Us
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Beyond Industrial Medicine
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When the Cause is Everything
Please look at the pictures of the tattooed inmates of El Salvador’s new 40,000-bed mega-prison, which according to its President will house them for…
Mar 2
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Life is Sacred and a couple short films and a note on future essays
Hi Everyone, I like Substack and will continue using it, but I have a little problem, which is that I post both essays and announcements and more…
Feb 21
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German Versions of my Essays
This message is only relevant to German speakers or those with friends in Germany (or Austria). Christoph Petersell, who has translated many of my…
Feb 17
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View from the Other Side
I have wanted to share this video for a long time. I met the visionary artist Drew Brophy in November at an event in Nosara, Costa Rica, where he told a…
Feb 10
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To Happen Everywhere it Must Happen Somewhere
Costa Rica is pulling me in. For many years I was seeking a place to live where I could feel at home. It wasn’t so much a matter of climate but of…
Feb 9
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Someone is impersonating me -- Do not respond!
Hey y’all, someone impersonating me is spamming up my comments sections with replies asking commenters to text a number or go to a website. Do not do…
Feb 8
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The Sun is Alive, and Why that Matters
When the modern mind attempts to grapple with animistic concepts like “the sun is alive,” the first impulse is to dismiss them as a superstitious fancy…
Feb 5
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They're Just not Jaded
“They’re just not jaded.” That’s how someone described the people he encountered during his recent visit to a hospital in Costa Rica. The doctors and…
Jan 26
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Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed
1,222
Elements of Refusal
552
360
The Rehearsal is Over
667
897
Amnesty, Yes—And Here is the Price
891
475
A Path Will Rise to Meet Us
516
347
Beyond Industrial Medicine
471
443
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