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2018


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Yuval Harari: Please Recognize Your Own Unacknowledged Fictions
Yuval Harari’s writings explode many fictions on which modern civilization is based. However, his own unacknowledged fictions perpetuate dangerous myths. In this article, I urge Harari to recognize his own implicit stories, and by doing so, step up to his full potential role in helping shape humanity’s future. 
December 13, 2018

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We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late
In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, we need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production. 
October 10, 2018

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Five Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires
We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our economic system will save our future, but these proposals could set changes in motion that might eventually take us there.
July 12, 2018

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Steven Pinker’s Ideas About Progress Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.
It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
May 17, 2018

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Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity’s Path to a Flourishing Future
Many of our current problems are symptoms of an even more profound problem: the implicit values of a global economic and political system that is driving civilization towards a precipice. It's time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.
March 20, 2018

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What Does China's "Ecological Civilization" Mean for Humanity's Future?
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, affirms an ecological vision that is in line with progressive environmental thought. Is it mere rhetoric or does it have a deeper resonance within Chinese culture? The answer may ultimately have a profound effect on humanity’s future.
February 9, 2018

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What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome.
December 26, 2017

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AI Has Already Taken Over. It's Called the Corporation 
Futurists warning about the threats of AI are looking in the wrong place. Humanity is already facing an existential threat from an artificial intelligence we created hundreds of years ago. It’s called the Corporation.
December 3, 2017

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Resisting Trump? Five Tips from the Hunter-Gatherer Playbook 
Our egalitarian hunter-gatherer ancestors developed sophisticated social technologies for keeping upstarts in check. What can the popular resistance movement learn from them in confronting the worst excesses of Donald Trump?

November 10, 2017

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The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse 
Contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse..

November 3, 2017

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What Celebrating Columbus Day Portends for Our Civilization 
The mindset Columbus and his followers brought with them is the same one that is driving our global civilization toward environmental catastrophe.

October 9, 2017

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Rejecting Violent Political Tactics Is a Moral Choice 
The case against violent tactics is not simply one of political strategy. It’s a moral choice. The end does not justify the means.
September 21, 2017

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The Climate Catastrophe We're All Ignoring 
As fossil fuel-based economies continue, millions are suffering around the world
September 15, 2017

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Beyond Reductionism? 
An Open Letter in Response to Jerry Coyne
August 10, 2017

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Reflections on "The Dangerous Delusions of Richard Dawkins" 
An AlterNet article stirs up a hornet's nest of controversy.
August 7, 2017

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The Dangerous Delusions of Richard Dawkins
His rationalist crusade creates a false impression that the only alternative to religion is reductionist science.

August 3, 2017

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A Meeting of Minds... and Computers
What are the costs of using technology to merge humans with machines?

June 21, 2017

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The Future Is What We Make of It—But What Will That Be?
June 6, 2017

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Technosplit: The Bifurcation of Humanity.
Will social inequality soon be programmed into our DNA?

June 2, 2017

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