If we approached climate policy with the same risk-mitigation framework we use for national defense, we’d have mobilized for a green transition decades ago. A 1% probability of foreign attack justifies trillions in spending, but a >90% probability of climate disaster doesn’t.

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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because a global crisis is genuinely beyond our comprehension as a species. lovecraft was right: kthulu just rolls on through. insanity is the best we can hope for.

We’re nothing if not a tribal species.

How can we “us vs them” if the “them” is us?