The future isn’t going to be exactly like the past, but enough so that you shouldn’t delude yourself that high tech toys will stick around. Be ready to devolve. And not in a hippie commune tree hugging windmill powering the boom box playing a CD of bongos serenading unicorns kind of way but a nastier serfs starving amid Thirty Year Wars while dying of Plague kind of way.
Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate Solutions
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"... Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse ... may once have
seemed extreme. ..."
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