Light and darkness in climate science
This message
was given by Anika Sweetland at the World Prosperity Forum, which is a freedom-based, prosperity focused alternative to the World Economic Forum. Anika is a climate scientist who has worked for the Australian government in energy policy.
Introduction
When I was 19, I would lie awake at night trying to calculate how old I would be when the food shortages hit. Where I should live one day to avoid the sea level rise? Where would be safe to live in 20 years time? Whether it was even ethical to bring a child into the world I genuinely believed was going to collapse due to unavoidable catastrophic climate change. And the strangest part is that no one had made me think this with violence. No one had threatened me. All they had done is teach me. (more…)
Share this:
Our civilizational moment?
Four threats
In October 2024, Os Guiness published a book titled, “Our civilizational moment: The waning of the west and the war of the worlds”. An earlier essay is also available here.
Civilizations rise, flourish, and then decline and fall. Guiness asks, is the West facing its own civilizational moment today? (more…)
RECENT COMMENTS