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now again reverberating upon us, in the forms of an atmospheric “end-game,” runaway “amplifying feedbacks,” and a global biochemical and extinction “hysteresis”
(lag-times between cause and effect). Component parts of the cybernetic fall-out are
palpable, others retarded (e.g., the phenomenon of ghost species, ghost biomes,
trophic ghosts in general).
13
But the mathematical meditations attendant upon the
passionate pessimism that necessarily follows from our doomed distractions, however heroic some efforts to rectify them may be (those passengers on United flight
#93 on September 11, 2001), beg and borrow the issue of how to think about our
coming nullity, notwithstanding the tens of millions of neurons allegedly helping us
navigate the downside of our collective behavior.
13 See “Beyond climate tipping points,” by Dr. Andrew Yoram Glikson, June 25, 2019, Global
Research, https://www.globalresearch.ca/beyond-climate-tipping-points-greenhouse-gas-levelsexceed-stability-limit-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets/5681653, Accessed July 5, 2019; See also,
The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth, by A.Y. Glikson, DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57237-6, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Switzerland, 2017, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57237-6#toc
Fig. 62.1 Roman ruins, anonymous photographer, ca. mid-nineteenth century. (Private Collection).
(Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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now again reverberating upon us, in the forms of an atmospheric “end-game,” runaway “amplifying feedbacks,” and a global biochemical and extinction “hysteresis”
(lag-times between cause and effect). Component parts of the cybernetic fall-out are
palpable, others retarded (e.g., the phenomenon of ghost species, ghost biomes,
trophic ghosts in general).
13
But the mathematical meditations attendant upon the
passionate pessimism that necessarily follows from our doomed distractions, however heroic some efforts to rectify them may be (those passengers on United flight
#93 on September 11, 2001), beg and borrow the issue of how to think about our
coming nullity, notwithstanding the tens of millions of neurons allegedly helping us
navigate the downside of our collective behavior.
13 See “Beyond climate tipping points,” by Dr. Andrew Yoram Glikson, June 25, 2019, Global
Research, https://www.globalresearch.ca/beyond-climate-tipping-points-greenhouse-gas-levelsexceed-stability-limit-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets/5681653, Accessed July 5, 2019; See also,
The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth, by A.Y. Glikson, DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57237-6, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Switzerland, 2017, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57237-6#toc
Fig. 62.1 Roman ruins, anonymous photographer, ca. mid-nineteenth century. (Private Collection).
(Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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