Tag: human society
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United We Stand
Humanity has a collective action problem. We won’t be able to solve the many crises we’re facing until we first create a system to cooperate together. All humans are already organized into real communities of many different types in which people can and do trust each other, such as our workplace, school, religious or cultural…
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A Kurdish response to climate change
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For 4000 years since the breakdown of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, almost every major societal collapse has featured five trends: spiralling migration, state collapse, food shortages, epidemic disease and climate change.[1] What makes the present era distinct is that whilst previous collapses have been geographically contained, the globalisation of carbon-intensive industry since the 1800s…
