Peter GleickWe already see this.
I'm part of an international team of water scientists giving lectures on freshwater to Chinese university students. The first class has 1,500 students and they expect 10,000 to take the course. 10,000!
Just on #water issues.
bk@petergleick
Their government visualizes and plans for the future, while ours seeks to destroy it...
Their government visualizes and plans for the future, while ours seeks to destroy it...
P_______X@knutson_brain @petergleick hey, we can still be #1 at publicly funded genocide, after all (/s)
One interesting thing I think expect to start seeing in anthropology and human origin research are hypotheses to support /justify Chinese supremacy challenging that of Europeans. (of course this is bound to happen to places that have an outsize interest and funding to study fossils and ancient artifacts; but the ideological drama will be scary fascinating).
@P__X @petergleick
Hoo boy, if we don't plan for the future, how can we help design it? (and I agree that each group will try to posthoc rationalize their own progress as the natural order of things, as they have in the past)
Hoo boy, if we don't plan for the future, how can we help design it? (and I agree that each group will try to posthoc rationalize their own progress as the natural order of things, as they have in the past)