Assessing the balance of hidden costs & co-benefits
Industrial activity creates many efficiencies, but it also creates a new problem that human societies have not been able to effectively address—the tendency toward depletion of resources at scale, with speed and effciency that no person or entity can manage or control. That has…
Keep readingMoon mission for all humanity
On Thursday, the crew of the Artemis II mission executed a maneuver called the Translunar Injection burn. The TLI burn reoriented their Orion spacecraft, called Integrity, and added sufficient thrust to push them out of Earth orbit, on course for the Moon. They are the first human…
Keep readingWhat to measure in the Age of Risk
Fast-paced change disrupts trusted features of our living reality, and creates risks where we did not previously expect to see them. In the early 21st century, we are witnessing planetary systems and everyday technologies disrupted and evolving at speeds with which political processes and…
Keep readingProsperity vs. financial data: A struggle for the future
Money is a proxy; it carries meaning, without being bound to any one purpose. When money changes hands, the exchange reflects what people involved in the exchange value, and implicitly, it reflects the wider landscape of value considerations in a society. When money is…
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Ag leaders warn US farm economy could collapse
In a stunning bipartisan letter, released this week, former senior leaders in US agriculture, who served in government and as leading advocates for farmers and trade associations, have warned American agriculture might be moving toward a dangerous collapse. The letter cites tariffs, increasing costs of farm inputs, now much higher than commodity prices, loss of market access, and…
Information integrity is an economic & security imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on their ability to navigate the world. Falsehoods can break trust, ruin relationships, mislead people about sources of danger, and cause decisions that lead to preventable…
