Bruce Sterling gives a rundown from Serbia.
"Serbia may be the world's single-greatest locale for a professional futurist. Awful things happen there faster than awful things happen anywhere else. The Balkans is a tragic region that denied stark reality, broke its economy, started multiple unnecessary wars, and basically finger-pointed and squabbled its way into a comprehensive train wreck. It suffered all kinds of pig-headed mayhem, all unnecessary.That's just how the world behaved with the climate crisis, too. The time for action isn't now. The time for action was 40 years ago. Today we live in a stricken world that bypassed its time for action. We have wreaked science-fiction levels of havoc on the unresisting carcass of Mother Nature. The real trouble is ahead of us."
Don't despair. National Geographic delivers a prophesy. It's not us. It's the sun, stupid. Thank you, Abdussamatov - for dismissing greenhouse effect and the IPCC report with masterful strokes. No more pangs of guilt. I thought we screwed ourselves and felt so awful all these days.
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