Steven Hawking, the brilliant scientist, occasionally ventured into dubious socio-political pronouncements. One of his most foolish was the declaration that humanity had 100 years – later amended to 600 years – before it destroyed itself and the planet, and that humans needed to abandon Earth for theoretically habitable exoplanets. The feasibility of human interstellar travel […]
Let’s Build a Future, While Supplies Last
A going-out-of-business sale for all time. The degradation of the natural world began at a time we were more beholden to nature than it was to us. I won’t call it an innocent time, because man’s innocence has long been in question, and was anyway always placed at a time before now. But, working against […]
