Gapminder Reviewed by nevillebruce@ewf.net.au The internet has given us seemingly limitless access to facts, fictions and opinions. But how can we make sense of it all, how can we construct a rational world view from the relentless cacophony of material the internet throws at us daily, weekly and yearly? Many can’t or won’t, the effort seems […]
Great Transition Initiative https://greattransition.org/ Reviewed by nevillebruce@ewf.net.au We live in a rapidly changing world, a world in a precarious balance of opportunities and serious global threats. How then shall we navigate this world to enhance the former and minimize the latter? Many believe that our current governance and institutions are just not up to the […]
Welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed by nevillebruce@ewf.net.au The Anthropocene is considered by many to be the new epoch where we awesome humans have changed the world; its climate, its ecosystems and even its geography and geology. And we have done so in just a few hundred years at a speed and magnitude that could never […]
As humans, we have experienced life evolution from single-cell organisms to the highly intellectual, creative and innovative creatures we are today. It is hard to grasp the magnitude of awesomeness and miracle this is; we did not get witness the chaotic geological primitive soup that was earth and the evolutionary stages that lead to our […]