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Noam
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'You could not live for more than a few minutes without taking a breath, and the oxygen your lungs extract from the air you breathe is there because blue-green algae emitted it through photosynthesis all those billions of years ago, and plants continue to make our earth inhabitable by sequestering carbon and emitting oxygen.' p.78
— Jul 31, 2026 12:08PM
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Noam
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'Donald Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again," I always thought of as code for "Make America 1958 (or perhaps 1858) Again." Like all fascism, it promises to restore a lost majesty, a lost hierarchy [...]. Fascism claims the past, or a fantasy version of it, as paradise while it tries to strangle the future and insists that order only comes through repression and the reinstatement of inequalities.' p.16
— Jul 29, 2026 02:57AM
Noam
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'Our world has changed more than almost anyone imagined, in ways both wonderful and terrible, often in ways no one anticipated, and the sheer profundity of change in the past guarantees that this change will continue, that stability is not an option, but participating in directing change might be, if we recognize it.' p.5
— Jul 29, 2026 12:49AM