Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human history' like this one

Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by warrenq on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:06AM (#24322056)

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by puranjay on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:08AM (#24322062)

Just because they got the dates wrong doesn't mean that they got the trend wrong.

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by tome on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:19AM (#24322114)

"Correctly predicted 10 of the last 0 eco-pocolypses" comes to mind.

[Adjust the figures as you see fit, but the latter won't come close to the former.]

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by puranjay on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:12PM (#24325557)

That's a very narrow viewpoint. Several species and ecosystems are certainly going through eco-pocalypses even right now. Lots of very poor people have also gone through their own versions of eco-pocalypses

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by aww_dang on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:31AM (#24322158)

https://www.wired.com/1997/02/the-doomslayer-2/

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