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| Does slower warming than predicted means that the world no longer has to worry? Answer is no, tells why |
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| "A policy-making tragedy” MT : and constraining our future selves: |
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| Those thoughts on are from |
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| The four features of "Super wicked problems" IV: As a result, policy responses discount the future irrationally |
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| The four features of "Super wicked problems" III: The central authority needed to address the problem is weak/non-existent |
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| The four features of "Super wicked problems" II: Those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution |
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| The four features of "Super wicked problems" I: time is running out (i.e. urgency) |
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| Sri Lanka rep: "The effective implementation of the Right to Development is required now, more than ever before" |
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Tory party behavior: "More like the politics of the French Fourth Republic than the serious practice of government"
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| For me, the signal reading was Jonathan Schell's THE FATE OF THE EARTH, which still gives me night terrors |
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| I still don't feel any historian has really captured that structure of feeling. Closest thing I've read is McCarthy's THE ROAD |
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| For GenXers, the prospect of nuclear annihilation constituted the moral equivalent of background radiation |
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| "Heli may be the most optimistic film you will ever see in which one young man sets another’s genitals on fire": |
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| Hypothesis: someone is performing inception on you. |
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| Fmr CIA CT Center director: Intelligence community having to adjust to movement from "world of secrets" to "world of knowledge" |
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| Joke of the day: "Why has the United States never had a coup? Because there is no American Embassy in Washington." :-) |
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| Listening to Reagan as a child made me deeply afraid I would die in a nuclear war. Turns out this was 100% justified: |
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| True, but the comparison of syphilis to HIV is more apt: sexually transmitted, slow-acting, eventually fatal... |
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| RT : *Gosh, imagine the fun people could have with all the cheap uranium they ever wanted |
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| Medium-term, I expect policymaking (& policy implementation) at gunpoint: I can't see any other logically coherent possibility |
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