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For body and planet

My second editorial column is up at Consilience.
When it comes to creating new systems, ideas, things, and experiences on planet Earth, there are two ways of making things happen. The first is blind evolution: Start with some variation, add a mechanism for selecting the fitter variants, and watch what happens. And then there is conscious [...]

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My first sustainability op-ed

My new friends over at Columbia have just published my editorial on sustainable development for Consilience.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the rise of human rights in the European imagination. By any account, human rights were a good idea. But as anyone who was around to witness the French Revolution would be able to attest, [...]

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