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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
It is often assumed that space expansion by intelligent actors would be clearly visible on a cosmic scale. I have previously outlined some reasons to doubt this assumption and to treat quiet cosmic expansion as a plausible explanation for the observed cosmic silence (see also Freitas, 1983; Fogg,...
Recent opportunities to take action
While the majority of news about EA is negative right now, interestingly GWWC has had more trial members join halfway through November than the entirety of September and October and 10 times more than November last year.
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/members
The forum may look gloomy right now but there's a silver lining :)