Everything is everywhere, but the [local] environment selects.
-Lourens Baas Becking
The environment can be an anything, e.g., an individual, an activity, or a society. But selection happens everywhere which is why everything isn’t there.
Tag: environment
Russell Conjugation
“Sentence 1: I am firm.
Sentence 2: You are obstinate.
Sentence 3: He/She/It is pigheaded.“
-Bertrand Russell, quoted in David Perell, “News in the Age of Abundance.” Perell.com. February 4, 2020.
“Most people will have a positive emotion to the first sentence, a mild reaction to the second, and a negative reaction to the third. Likewise, writers can vary the meaning of their words by changing the length or structure of their sentences. Once their words are set in print, they can enhance their messaging with images that manipulate the reader’s emotions.”
–ibid.
“Many if not most people form their opinions based solely on whatever [Emotive] Conjugation is presented to them and not on the underlying facts.
Most words and phrases are actually defined not by a single dictionary description, but rather two distinct attributes:
1. The factual content of the word or phrase.
2. The emotional content of the construction.“
-Eric Weinstein, ibid.
Existential Climate-Related Security Risk | Breakthrough
Climate change is “a path to the end of human civilization and modern society as we know it.”
—David Spratt and Ian Dunlop. “Existential Climate-Related Security Risk.” Breakthrough. June 2019.
Scenarios and social implications of climate change forecasting existential threat to humanity by 2050.
Green New Deal — John Oliver
A Mere 200 Feet
“These reports overturn long-held assumptions about the stability of Greenland’s glaciers: until recently, scientists had predicted that Greenland’s ice sheet would stabilize once the glaciers close to the warming ocean had melted. The discovery of ice-bound fjords reaching almost sixty-five miles inland has major implications since the glacier melt will be much more substantial than anticipated. The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets combined contain over 99 percent of the Earth’s glacial ice. If they were to melt completely, they would raise global sea levels a virtually inconceivable 65 meters (200 feet).”
—Ashley Dawson, “We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities.” Longreads.com. October 2017.
The U.S Geological Survey has a sea level rise viewer that can estimate the impact of an extra six feet at sea level will have on the coasts in the United States. At two hundred, it’ll obviously be much worse.
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