Sunday, March 22, 2020

Progress, innovation and risk management - planning and prediction

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Chapter 2, Summary: Ingenuity helps create critical situations from which humans are unable to emerge. Societies often become accustomed t...
Monday, February 03, 2020

An early study of Progress Traps

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The progress trap phenomenon was studied independently in 1990. (Concordia University, Montreal - Global Geopolitics) The Progress Trap – Sc...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Five key lessons other cities can learn from Cape Town’s water crisis

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The Berg River Dam on 7 March 2018 about 48% full. Author supplied Kevin Winter , University of Cape Town Postponing Day Zero in Cape...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Corruption is directly involved in the inhibition of true progress

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Corruption is directly involved in the inhibition of true progress, in keeping vested interests vested and in keeping the status quo static....
Sunday, November 05, 2017

USA Government: Most of the warming of the past half-century is due to human activities

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First published at progresstrap.org According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program*, "it is extremely likely that human activit...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Make the world a better place (there is no planet B)

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On Earth day 2017, a march was organized by scientists, skeptical of the agenda of the Trump administration and critical of Trump administra...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy (book review)

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Anyone who witnessed the 2016 election in the United States can be forgiven for asking, "what just happened?!" There is a consensu...
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Friday, December 02, 2016

"This is inevitable, it is progress, but it is also socially destructive" - Stephen Hawking

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Hawking at NASA, 1980s On December 1, 2016, Stephen Hawking wrote in The Guardian : "The concerns underlying these votes about the ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

New York's Mount Sinai hospital schooled by South Africa's Mamelani Projects

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The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York is one of the largest and most advanced hospitals in the world. And yet, it is being tutored in patient...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Something to celebrate, even in these dark times.

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A scientific paradigm shift in the making: climate change - beyond a reasonable doubt. On September 20, 2016, three hundred and seventy fi...