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  1. Oct 2024
    1. We define a crisis as a sudden (non-linear) event or series of events that significantly harms, in a relatively short period of time, the wellbeing of a large number of people (Homer-Dixon et al., Reference Homer-Dixon, Walker, Biggs, Crépin, Folke, Lambin, Peterson, Rockström, Scheffer, Steffen and Troell2015).Footnote

      for - critique - definition - crisis - perhaps interpret less anthropocentrically? - extend to non-human organisms as well?

  2. Feb 2023
  3. Jan 2016
    1. Nature still grants her rewards of having and enjoying, according to our being and doing, but it is now the man of the highest training and not the man of the heaviest fist who gains the highest reward.

      Nature remains the system which grants rewards amongst the people. Nature grants her rewards to individuals based on what they give and do within society. Furthermore, instead of the man that was born into unearned power, the individual that has worked, gained knowledge, and sculpted his craft will gain power and become successful.