Some ruins

Lately I just saw that the newsletter, this one, was not going anywhere.

Surely the poor quality of what I wrote shows I did not put in effort or attention.

So I decided now to focus more on quality than on quantity, meaning avoiding stupid scamming emails, 3 times a week or so, about news no one cares about.

I took this decision today, as I got one of those moments when I have some time to reflect on the “why” I do things. Why do we do what we do?

And this questioning arose after having read a quote from an ecology professor who, without much hope left, deemed and said that the future we are looking at is not as rosy as we would like it to be.

What would happen if, after all, the future of planet Earth would resemble more a Last of Us episode? No mushroom pandemic, just a shortfall in climate targets, creating an unlivable planet.

The whole system 🌱

We humans are a peculiar species.

We are really focused on ourselves, meaning that we are also extremely focused on what we hear, see, touch or smell and our surroundings. Sometimes not even that.

I, as a person, always try to make tomorrow better than today, and this is by trying to make my living conditions better. This peculiar and partial vision of the world is for sure the same I share with millions of other humans. It is difficult, for us as a species, to think and live beyond what our senses teach us, and everyone tries everyday to makes his living conditions better.

In this regard, how do you solve the climate change equation?

I do not see beyond my courtyard. What happens if, by improving by 1 my living conditions, I worsen by a factor of 10 the lives of others?

Looking ahead

We always have to look ahead. To plan, to invest, and to try to make ourselves and our future better.

But we shall at the same time learn from the past and compound those learnings. Did we not learn what past societies did wrong? Why do we just see the ruins of their great civilizations?

I think that no AI could save us in this respect, and, as that ecology professor wrote, no tech. Our issue is as old as human history: it is a humanistic problem, because we still do not who we are yet, and we still do not know how to take care of the planet we live in.

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