“Disenchantment is killing us and destroying our civilization,” Dreher writes
for - quote - Disenchantment is killing us and destroying civilization - Rob Dreher - source - book - Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age - Rod Dreher
Die Methanemissionen haben einer neuen Studie zufolge 2020 mit 400 Millionen Tonnen einen Rekordwert erreicht. In den vergangenen 5 Jahren sind sie schneller gewachsen als je zuvor seit Beginn der Industrialisierung. Zwei Drittel der Methan-Konzentration in der Atmosphäre sind menschlich verursacht. Ein Drittel der Erderhitzung seit der vorindustriellen Zeit geht auf Methan zurück. Die Ziele des 2021 von EU und USA initiierten Global Methane Pledge seien, so einer der Autoren, so fern wie eine Oase in der Wüste. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/climat-lhumanite-est-desormais-responsable-de-deux-tiers-des-emissions-mondiales-de-methane-20240910_WAPRSVRKVNFABEPS55M46JCGDE/
Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6463
He recommends to read in the following order, because of thematic significance, I have to determine if I'll do the same.
Books: - A Defence of Classical Education, R. W. Livingstone - Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto - The Republic, Plato - The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis - Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Étienne de La Boétie - The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek - The Political Theory of the American Founding, Thomas G. West
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Rob argues that a decline of consensus on morality makes liberty vanish. A society is not a society if they do not adhere to moral law.
What role does formal education play in the development of morality?
Rob Pirie argues that if one doesn't understand the foundational principles of their society, in the case of the American Republic, the ancient Greek and Roman history, with a consensus on the foundational virtues for society, the society cannot sustain itself.
Thus, he argues, there is a need for classical (self-)education
Interesting series which I'll be following along by Rob Pierie. Might even read the books myself as part of my intellectualism project.
He'll dive into how the demise of education and morality affects society and ultimately leads to serfdom
Fascinating and troublesome is the idea that older books are being edited to be less "offensive" in modern times. This alters the meaning of the past. Do not do this.
Keep it original.
This person argues that one should cultivate a personal library, the tangibleness of the physical, to safeguard knowledge and prevent information control from falling to a single institution or person, so that they may never control the past.
I think he should go deeper into his argument, I do not fully understand what he means.
Interesting thought. This guy relates the upcome of AI (non-fiction) writing to the lack of willingness people have to find out what is true and what is false.
Similar to Nas & Damian Marley's line in the Patience song -- "The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of. And still won't research and find the root of the truth that you seek of."
If you want to form an opinion about something, do this educated, not based on a single source--fact-check, do thorough research.
Charlie Munger's principle. "I never allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do."
It all boils down to a critical self-thinking society.
Das Tempo der Temperaturerhöhung an der Oberfläche der Ozeane ist auch für erfahrene Forschende schockierend. Besonders hoch ist es im Nordatlantik, dessen Erwärmung zu schwereren Hurricans führen könnte. Aber auch der Südatlantik und damit das antarktische Meereis sind betroffen. Die Ursachen sind nicht geklärt; das El Niño-Phänomen reicht zur Erklärung nicht aus. Es könnten Feedback-Mechanismen eine Rolle spielen. Die New York Times hat mehrere Wissenschaftler befragt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/climate/scientists-are-freaking-out-about-ocean-temperatures.html
39 kleine Inselstaaten waren nicht im Raum, als Sultan al Jaber das Schlussdokument unterzeichnete.
Eine Gruppe von Forscher:innen um James Hansen hat eine Studie veröffentlicht, der zufolge sich die globale Erhitzung beschleunigt und die 1,5°-Grenze schon bald überschritten werden wird. Die These, dass der IPCC die Empfindlichkeit der Erde für Veränderungen in der Einstrahlung (Climate Sensitivity) bisher unterschätzt, ist nicht wissenschaftlicher Konsens, wird aber sehr ernst genommen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/02/heating-faster-climate-change-greenhouse-james-hansen
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The whispered name "Shia LaBeouf" becomes the kernel of the song "Shia LaBeouf".
David Lynch would be proud how the resultant product stayed true to the kernel of the idea.
Seit dem Beginn von Satelliten-Beobachtungen vor vier Jahrzehnten ist das antarktische Meereis noch nie so geschrumpft wie im Februar 2023.
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