π The Book in 3 Sentences
π¨ Impressions
How I Discovered It
Who Should Read It?
βοΈ How the Book Changed Me
How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book.
βοΈ My Top 3 Quotes
In ecological terms, it is not a human that is remarkable, but humanity.
π Ideas
We are teenagers playing with matches
- Humanity only comes to maturity, and like all teenagers who risk their lives on stupid endeavours. Humanity is on the same track.
- We are a species of flawed decision-making patterns, who operate in absolute ignorance with technologies and concepts, which misapplied threaten the future of our planet. Probabilistic decision VS personal
- New ethical perspective is required, reorientation and seeing the world and factors at play from different angle.
- We, as an agent of change, play a crucial role in setting up our future.
- We have to breach the gap between wisdom and power and make the right choices that will safeguard humanity in centuries to come.
Cure of the disease might be worse than ailment itself
- Be careful with implementing solution, Geoengineering is on of them.
- Games with viruses is the second, and many other means of self annihilation.
- We are a creative lot, we have so many ways to harm ourselves.
- But our search for solution occasionally bring with itself calamities bigger than the original problem.
- This is an even bigger risk in countries and communities where decisions are made unilaterally, without scrutinizer, internal critic doesnβt count.
- In this case, restrain from outside required.
- Look where unrestrained race for green energy lead us. To global energetic and political crisis.
Norman Borlaug and wheat miracle
- Always forget his name, but I also remember him working with somebody, whose name is omitted from the book.
- He is responsible for creating gene modified crops, that yield higher harvest and bigger variety of crops.
Know your limits
- It is foolish to confuse the low possibility with zero possibility.
- We shouldnβt ignore unknown facts or consider them as nonexistent.
- If it didnβt happen before, it doesnβt mean it canβt happen.
- Flock of black swans circling the sky above.
- Incoming centuries pose even greater number of unknowns than the previous one.
- We donβt know the aftermath of green agenda, and certain consequences are inbound, I am sure of it.
- We stretch muscle before each other, as peacocks their tails.
- And harm our gene pool and planet in the course.
- As ΠΠ°ΠΊΡΠΈΠΌ ΠΠΎΡΠΎΡΠ΅Π΅Π² says, the only certain outcome is fuck-up.
- Everything else is a game of chance.