Conceptric

The archives for December 2009

  1. Government can’t provide the solution

    I’m not normally given to naivety and unrealistic bouts of optimism, but last week I discovered to my surprise that I genuinely expected some positive agreement on climate change from the Copenhagen summit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those campaigners on the TV, or that pour forth tweets, and I haven’t been glued to the news from Denmark, but at the end of the conference I have to admit to feeling a little deflated.

  2. Can humanity buck the trend?

    We evolved to be adaptable as a response to environmental uncertainty. Have we created a social structure that neutralises this attribute for avoiding extinction?