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#industrialrevolution and growing populations warn the planet up https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/climate/iceberg-a68a-antarctica.html
Worst in the #G7.
#UK #Environment #Ecoloty #Ecosystems #Industrialization #Urbanization #Wildlife #Conservation
Pretty much my own view but it's nice to see someone else say it. Cosma Rohilla Shalizi at Three-Toed Sloth[1] writes in "The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone" (November 28, 2010):
The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918.
Exponential yet basically unpredictable growth of technology, rendering long-term extrapolation impossible (even when attempted by geniuses)? Check....
Continued at the dreddit.
#singularity #industrialrevolution #progress #technology #JamesBurke #connections