- Confessions of a disillusioned scientist ➶
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Just found Tom Murphy’s Do the Math blog, via a comment at Ongoing, and I like it a lot.
Tom’s path brings to mind Gia-Fu Feng’s and Jane English’s translation of and artwork in The Complete Tao Te Ching.
I became aware that some of the pillars on which modern life is based were necessarily temporary. Growth on a finite planet would have to stop—both in physical terms like energy, but also in economic terms.
Tom seems to me to be a sane and optimistic person, so it’s a good time to make a plan B, and C, and D, wherever you may be.
The last line of his 2021 textbook Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet:
Treat nature at least as well as we treat ourselves.
And as Jane English puts it:
Each of us can in this way bring a drop of balance and beauty to our world that so needs it. Many such drops can create a river and an ocean … We need to honor ancient wisdom as well as modern science and technology, the intangible and the measurable integrating them in both our minds and our hearts.
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Possibly Related:
- Awareness of atomic reality
- On Exactitude in Science
- Dying is a form of education
- Enlightened Imagination For Citizens
- The quiet art of observation
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