Finishing UG BSc. STEM+ (long of extra classes) after a BA (Phil) - Plenty of time to read how nature works in STEM; plenty of time to see how failure to grasp our evolved cognitive systems has produced the mountain of social science and political theory and green this and so on; planets, like us, like complex entropic systems, produce waste but recycle. Green politics is realising the politics sits on the green; as do the academic jobsworths of environmental this and ecological that; entropic systems, a human in a yurt, a mountaintop removal. Political philosophy hints, but more theories were of individuals conceived when the world was new a…
Finishing UG BSc. STEM+ (long of extra classes) after a BA (Phil) - Plenty of time to read how nature works in STEM; plenty of time to see how failure to grasp our evolved cognitive systems has produced the mountain of social science and political theory and green this and so on; planets, like us, like complex entropic systems, produce waste but recycle. Green politics is realising the politics sits on the green; as do the academic jobsworths of environmental this and ecological that; entropic systems, a human in a yurt, a mountaintop removal. Political philosophy hints, but more theories were of individuals conceived when the world was new and unlimited (quoting Carol Marcus to Kirk). Geoengineering, well, blue sky tech has produced all our blue sky ideas; spent this morning, with a few pricewall walk arounds, getting two weeks of references (sure, I own some; and the Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons is he forgot about language and mutuality and compromise, and local codes, and the early English anarchists who kept the common Common; then cometh Enclosure. The Evil Capitalist Patriarchal Racist Colonial West. Started with the peasants.
