The Dangers of Apocalyptic Thinking

by Sheldon on February 27, 2007

In, of all places, the New York Times, I found this interesting interview.

An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’

“Any time that people are forced to acknowledge publicly that they’re wrong, it’s really good for the commonweal. I love to be busted for apocalyptic proclamations that turned out to be 180 degrees wrong. In 1973 I thought the energy crisis was so intolerable that we’d have police on the streets by Christmas. The times I’ve been wrong is when I assume there’s a brittleness in a complex system that turns out to be way more resilient than I thought.�

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