The Earth

Friedman is picking up on a theme that people like Bill McKibben and James Kunstler have been touching on for a while. The party is over, and we are standing on the edge of something new and different and very uncertain. What comes next is likely to be some kind of fundamental change. It might be very, very bad or, if we are smart and fearless and flexible, it might lead to something more sustaining on a wide variety of levels.

…The link Friedman doesn


We should not just expect science to provide answers to the mess we are in. There will have to be more to it than that, as we still have to decide which science to deploy and then, harder still, find the collective strength