A couple of days ago, someone I know (who studied at SOAS, like me) wrote a post on Bob Geldof’s initiative against Ebola: Band Aid, take 3. I strongly suggest you read the post and the articles attached. Well, I personally don’t like We are the world nor Do they know it’s Christmas? – leaving … Continue reading
In questi giorni, una persona che conosco (uscita come me dalla SOAS nel 2010) ha pubblicato un post sulla storia dell’ultima iniziativa di Bob Geldof per contrastare l’Ebola: Band Aid, atto terzo. Vi consiglio di leggere il post e gli articoli allegati. Ora, io personalmente non ho mai amato né We are the world né Do they know … Continue reading
Do you know Serge Latouche? Born in 1940, the French philosopher and economist is the theorist of the ‘happy degrowth’. So what? So, being on average politically apathetic people we wouldn’t give a damn, we strongly believe in saving our grey matter from the exhaustion caused by challenging thoughts and intellectual exercises. But. But the … Continue reading
Conoscete Serge Latouche? Economista e filoso francese, classe 1940, Latouche è il teorico della decrescita felice. Ma che ce ne frega a noi? Di base nulla, perché siamo tendenzialmente dei qualunquisti che cercano il più possibile di evitare mal di testa e ansie derivanti da un uso troppo intenso e disagevole della materia grigia. Ma. Ma … Continue reading
All natural and technological processes proceed in such a way that the availability of the remaining energy decreases. In all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves an isolated system the entropy of that system increases. Energy continuously flows from being concentrated to becoming dispersed, spread out, wasted and useless. New energy cannot be … Continue reading
