New Future

Convenience has become a central selling point for practically every consumer product or service. But it can be a perilous lure when it comes to our online interactions with government.

In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on the effects of technology on modern relationships, and how Dunbar’s number infers a ceiling on the number of people we can meaningfully interact with.

Proposals advocating a democratization of the economic sphere of life must therefore be central to the bioeconomy proposal. It is also crucial to recover its original definition and thus avoid its distortion into another, albeit greener, utilitarian framework.

All Peoples and all sacred life deserve liberation from all unjust systems rooted in principles of supremacy. Our power will never be taken by any executive order, so let’s not quietly give it up.

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological record.

The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

Summing up, I believe there are many indications that the ever increasing complexity clearly shows diminishing returns and that people will turn their backs on global capitalism and modernity (whatever that is).

So yes, perhaps, with the Anthropocene, it is not something that will end—but something that will begin.

Local radio stations and digital networks of independents are keeping “human-driven, anti-algorithm expression” alive.

I’m going to update you regularly on SunDay in these pages as the day approaches, because I think that our job is not just to understand the climate catastrophe but to prevent as much of it as we still can.

In this special Earth Week edition of Frankly, Nate delves into what it truly means for a technology or project to be “in service of Life, ” using the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence as an example.

Phosphorus is a critical resource underlying global agricultural production. This nutrient, a common component of commercial fertilizers, is essential for photosynthesis and the storage and transportation of energy in crops. This element is a critical component of global food security.

So Saito’s fundamental argument, that we must slow down the economy and reduce material consumption to turn around the climate crisis, remains potent. If anything, the breaching of multiple ecological limits beyond climate makes it stronger.

Aging, crumbling transportation and electrical infrastructure in America is exposing us to possible catastrophic, cascading failures.