OVERPOPULATION is at the root of many problems

THE WORLD is facing a series of interlinked crises which threatens billions of people and could cause the collapse of civilization.

Climate change, pollution, food shortages, diseases, wars, disasters, crime and recessions are all conspiring to ravage the globe and threaten the future of humanity.

Democracy, human rights and press freedom are also suffering.


OVERPOPULATION is at the root of these problems

Information Overload is the Bane of my Life

My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.  

What can and should be ignored?  

Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? 

Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?  

What do I hope to accomplish?

“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."

- Yuval Noah Harari   

  

And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

What explains the rise of humans? - Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari
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What explains the rise of human

Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. 

But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we've spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other animals (and possibly Earth itself).

 How did we get from there to here? 

Historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests a surprising reason for the rise of humanity.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.

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