Tyler Willis

“there is a second lesson from Grübler’s studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

“For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of a much more recent origin than has heretofore been supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“The fear of bad outcomes motivates both climate activists and their foes, but the precise details don’t matter. Both sides see themselves as averting a future that they don’t like more than creating one that they do.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World