A recent article in Wired magazine, 
On this (UN) World Environment Day (5 June), a global stock-taking is due. Most of us who analyze and fear the predicament in which progress has landed us were certain that climate change would be the big wake-up call. But no. The Covid-19 viral spillover has issued a more sudden and brutal reminder: we exploit Nature at our peril.
Summary, Chapter 12: Having established that society and the human mind follow the same divergent path of overspecialization and failure, followed by cathartic re-engagement of intellect and sense, we can learn how to avoid the failures.
Cholera epidemic in London, 1858 (pandemic 1846–1860)
"Climate change is happening, and there is a large amount of evidence that this is in fact man-made...Climate change is a certainty" - Rear Admiral David Tetley, Oceanographer, US Navy 
Summary, Chapter 11: Humans begin their development with a unity of intellect and feeling, however through specialization and over-use of the intellect, we stray too far from this natural integrity until a crisis results. Then the individual is brought to his/her senses. The collapse of problem-solving skills can be averted by preventing the mind from becoming overspecialized to the point of losing touch with natural human instincts and feelings.
Chapter 10 - Summary: These split-brain experiments show that a rational explanation can be an incomplete, inappropriate or incorrect rendering of the actual stimulus, and this raises the possibility that: Any experience can be rationalized, if the vocabulary is available.The eBook is available at |
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"The Progress Trap - and how to avoid it" Copyright Daniel O'Leary, registered at
the Copyright Office, Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Canada on April 5, 1991 (ref 405917)
and how to avoid it