Externalities "Our economic activity is causing the death of the living planet and economists say, 'Yeah, yeah, that's an environmental externality.' There's something profoundly wrong with our theories if we're dismissing or just happy to label the death of the living planet as an externality." Kate Raworth, “renegade economist” Negative externalities are unaccounted side effects... Continue Reading →

Technology vs. human nature As humans, we inherit evolutionary conditioning that developed over millions of years. Center for Humane Technology 🤔 Not to freak out entirely just yet, but my brain just leapt to this thought: When I think of the damage done over just ten years of asocial behaviour on so-called social media, I... Continue Reading →

Setting the stage (notes from 2022-07-10) "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions; and god-like technology."Dr. E.O. Wilson, Sociobiologist Looking at the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which of these goals are most important to you? Which challenges represented by these goals have you experienced personally (directly or indirectly)?... Continue Reading →