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GliderGuider

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7. Here's my takeaway from the talk.

Reply to CRH (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 05:27 PM

Nov 2012

We have created a meta-stable complex adaptive system out of global civilization and the climate.
Such systems are characterized by feedbacks running upon feedbacks.
As a result they can change state very, very fast.
We appear to be very close to such a state change.

If you accept those principles, there's no need to worry about the download.

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