Written by Japanese philosophy professor Kohei Saito, Slow Down has become an international best seller. The book has been translated into 14 languages. I have not read it yet, but from the reviews I have seen, it sounds like something we all need to read.
I’ve been thinking about this since the early 1970s, when Gov. Jerry Brown held up a copy of E. F. Schumacher’s book Small is Beautiful and told us to read it. Schumacher said he didn’t know what would cause society to collapse. He added, “I do know that a society which seeks fulfillment only in mindless material expansion does not fit into this world for long. There simply is no place for infinite growth on a finite planet.”
While everyone is excited about AI and all the money that is being invested, very few people seem bothered by the need for “rare earth” materials or the electricity needed to run the machines or the amount of water needed to cool the machinery.
In the meantime the Trump administration is doing what it can to INCREASE global warming, which it dismisses as a hoax.
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