1979: "Empathy and trust must be restored between politicians, administrators, businessmen[sic], and activist groups"
2025: "Instead of empathy and trust we've chosen delusion, misinformation, lies. Worse, this magical thinking has spread into expert communities notwithstanding the laws of physics"
🎯"This is the defining contradiction of our age: a species capable of extraordinary insight, yet seemingly incapable of acting in its own long-term interest. Whether this failure is a temporary lapse or a terminal condition remains unresolved. History, and geology, will render the verdict".
Jan 20, 2026 08:05
