might hold under Joe Biden. As Mark Rowe has said: "Had John F. Kennedy been in the White House over the past four years, rather than Donald trump, he might have updated his most famous call to arms and declared: "Ask not what the climate is doing to your country, but what your country can do for climate." [IT] was in fact, another North American, the Canadian former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who came up with this phrase during a 2020 BBC Reith Lecture.Carney's call was directed at the international community, but it had a pointed reference to the USA. Much has been rightly made of the impact of our changing climate on the most vulnerable and developing parts of the world, where economies and peoples are least able to cope and sit in the crosshairs of extreme weather and rising tides. BUT the USA [IS] NOT EXEMPT.
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Added by Michael Grove at 16:16 on September 11, 2021
ne meant logging onto an electronic bulletin board.
Now imagine being able to smell it all coming—not the details but
the impact of a networked world on culture, business, politics, daily
life. These were the preconditions that spawned Wired. In 1988, Louis Rossetto, a 39-year-old adventurer, onetime novelist,
and avid libertarian, sensed that the encoding of information in 1s
and 0s was going to change everything. Living in Amsterdam at the
time, he and Jane Metcalfe, his partner in business and life, had
parlayed his job at an obscure language-translation service into a
magazine, Electric Word. Produced on an Apple Mac, it evoked a
digital universe that was not about gadgetry but a force for global transformation.
Over the following year, the couple hammered out a business plan
for a new magazine, tentatively called Millennium, that would take
this revolution to the US mainstream. Technology, Rossetto predicted,
would be the rock and roll of the ’90s, and the pair aimed to make
Millennium its standard-bearer.
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:22 on November 23, 2013
aszlo is a unique scientist who founded systems philosophy and general evolution theory. But he is also the founder and president of the Club of Budapest, an informal association of highly creative people who use their insight to enhance awareness of global problems and human opportunities.
The book starts with a Chinese proverb that warns, “If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed.” The author then summarizes the problems the world is now facing and their causes. He emphasizes that we are at a critical juncture in history. We now face a “decision-window.” We are headed on a path towards global breakdown where societies will experience accelerating terrorism, crime, wars, intolerance and an inhospitable biosphere for human life. Thus, there will either be a global breakdown of civilization or a breakthrough to a better future for our children and us.
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indeed about game changers to end ALL [IN]equality; such that a BIG STATEMENT - to present y[our] project and its specific concrete design plan/purpose to make the 'connessione' no one else is making between inequality and how time is measured and has been used as a weapon historically - IS of paramount importance !!!
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