Panel Discussion in New York City, 25 August 2024
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Panel Discussion in New York City, 25 August 2024
On the night of Sunday, 25 August 2024, Professor Emeritus Guy R. McPherson participated in a panel discussion in New York City, New York. The panel was titled Are We Doomed? It was brilliantly moderated by Daniel Pinchbeck. Other participants included Douglas Rushkoff, Doug Henwood, Bob Eisenberg, and Vicki Robins. The resulting video is embedded below.
This is a fascinating debate about the multitude of existential threats we are facing or should I say, not facing.
Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and of course War.
I think we should have these sorts of debates with our close friends, neighbors and communities.
The first musical interlude reminded me of Katie Goodman and her magnificent song and performance, "I Didn't F*ck It Up".
Guy interviewed Katie on Nature Bats Last before I joined the show. That interview can be found at the NBL archive at PRN.FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn3O6aaMNc&t=96s
The effort sounds rationalist. Indeed, eminently so (dialogical). Alas, this is a subversive form of inquiry. The rulers prefer conformist acceptance (today, consumerist imbibe-ment) of the Status Quo.
Will scientists, content with mining their particular narrow (if deep) research silos, alert us to the need to listen attentively to rational dialogue? Will podcasters point us upward out of the internet cave, toward a Bigger View?
One could hope— but to the heat sensitive, this emotion proves infernal.
Rx gallows humor, to alleviate pain and improve camaraderie.