so that’s OK then?

“In cold fact, a financial crisis is one of the kindest and mildest sorts of crisis a civilization can have.”
characteristically astute comment from Bruce Sterling, waxing futuristic in Seed magazine…
(he has a pessimistic companion piece, too)

Smil.. ing through?

Long time no post…   but regularity resumes, with apologies for terrible pun above. Much stimulated by Vaclav Smil’s latest work, oddly titled Global Catastrophes and Trends – The Next Fifty Years. It has been widely and well reviewed, so no need to summarise. But, even for an inveterate synthesist like Smil, it is a broad [...]