Power-Hungry AI
If you think AI dominating the world might be a problem, have you also thought about the risks created by AI’s need for vast amounts of energy? How much energy does AI need and where will it come from?
Tag: climate change
We Will Rebuild
What will it take for humans to act in the face of climate change? Will the LA fires be a tipping point? So far, it’s not looking like they will provide the impetus required.
Hurry Up and Wait
Time for a typhoon? Can you trust the media to tell you accurately whether a typhoon is turning up? Can you trust the media to tell you anything with accuracy? Should you just have a coffee and see what happens?
Studying Disasters
One third of the Canadian town of Jasper burned to the ground this week. New Zealand is still not properly waking up to the risk of wildfires, despite increasing numbers here. And, for so many problems, we want to research more than we want to take action. Why?
Natural Hydrogen – what the H2?
Why the excitement over natural hydrogen that’s bubbled up in New Zealand? Is this the clean green energy of the future? Or a speculator’s dream? And why are Shane Jones and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer debating who might own it?
Reverence
Have the majority of humans collectively lost our sense of reverence for the wild? For environments we are not actively managing? Has sci-tech been a significant driver of that loss?
Limit Screws
Bike derailleurs come with limit screws to stop chain ‘going off the rails’. Unfortunately, humans and societies don’t come with similar, easily adjustable limiting mechanisms.
Ecological overshoot
Humans use 1.75x the amount of ecological resources the planet creates in a year. If everyone lived like NZers, we’d need 3 planet Earths. Where to from here?
Fair play for frogs
Frogs jump out of gradually heating water, but humans stick with failing paths of action. So why do we keep dissing frogs?