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a blog on philosophy, climate change, and society

November 07, 2022 0

On Human Overpopulation

Social Issues

A recurring theme among a number of widely divergent political and environmental movements is that of human overpopulation. Often, the claim that there are too many humans has conspicuous racist…

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October 10, 2022 0

SotA-R-10: Combined Models 4 and 5 Suggest 62% Change of Exceeding 3°C of Average Global Warming

Climate Change

(This is part 9 of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series (SotA-R).) The previous episode in this series explained a few problems of the last iteration of the model…

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September 19, 2022 0

The Probability of the End of Civilization in the 21st Century

Climate Change

Climate scientists have been calling recently for more research into warming scenarios of 3°C and above because such scenarios are dangerously neglected. According to mainstream models such levels of warming…

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September 11, 2022 0

Tipping Points, Permafrost Thaw, and “Fast” Reduction

Climate Change

Last Thursday a new analysis of the main “tipping elements” in the Earth system was published in Science., The paper and its supplementary materials provide data on likely thresholds and…

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September 06, 2022 0

Making Sense of “the Meaning of Life”

Philosophy

Most of this article was written in 2017. I never finished it, but rather abandoned the project halfway §12 for reasons explained below. Until the horizontal line separating old from…

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July 30, 2022 0

SotA-R-9: Some Comments on Model 4 (and Another Error)

Climate Change

(This is part 9 of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series (SotA-R).) The latest iteration of the model I have been developing in this series in an attempt to…

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June 18, 2022 0

On Hedgehogs, Koalas, and Other Animals

Philosophy

Outside academia, Isaiah Berlin is probably best known for his distinction between “foxes” and “hedgehogs” based on Archilochus saying that “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…

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May 21, 2022 0

SotA-R-8: Climate/Society Feedback Model 4 Predicts 3.7°C of Average Global Warming

Climate Change

(This is part 8 of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series (SotA-R).) (This post was updated on July 28.) — Earlier this year I found a serious error in…

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April 27, 2022 0

A Note on the Pāli Canon

Buddhism

(Originally posted on April 27. Major revisions on June 3, 2022.) In chapter 5 of A Buddha Land in This World, I wrote that until the sūtras in the Pāli…

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“𝐹=𝑚𝑎” is a blog by Lajos Brons about philosophy, climate change, Buddhism, and whatever else he happens to be interested in. Lajos is a Dutch philosopher and social scientist living in Japan. His last two books, The Hegemony of Psychopathy (2017) and A Buddha Land in this World (2022) are closely related to this blog in style and content. For more information, see the “About” page and/or this site’s Privacy Policy.

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