Do Natural Laws Define Human Life? (Saleem Ali)
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- The Michael Shermer Show # 300
Shermer and Ali discuss: • the search for structure in nature • order and randomness • economic laws • natural laws • natural orders: molecular, quantum, crystals, carbonic, nuclear, magnetic • hydrological, organismic, Gaia and Medea • reductionism and holism • Islamic economics • the origin of wealth • Is there an optimal economic order? • how mining rights work in the U.S. and elsewhere • the voter’s paradox • Pareto optimality and why we can’t achieve it • resource nationalism • the resource curse • why India and Pakistan have not used their nukes on each other • social orders • population and sustainability: neo-Malthusianism • How many people can the Earth hold? • why we need nuclear power for sustainability • internationalism and globalism • Trekonomics.
Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT, respectively. He currently holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware and is Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). Dr. Ali’s laurels include being a National Geographic Explorer (having travelled for research to over 150 countries); being chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serving on the seven-member science panel of the Global Environment Facility (the world’s largest multilateral trust fund for the environment held in trusteeship by the World Bank). His earlier books include Treasures of the Earth: Need Greed and a Sustainable Future. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society in the United Kingdom and also serves on the boards of Adventure Scientists and Mediators Beyond Borders International. Along with his wife Maria and sons Shahmir and Shahroze, the family are citizens of Australia, Pakistan and the United States.
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An optimist can never be pleasantly surprised.
I am truly impressed with Saleem Ali, and I can't wait to read his books. Is rare to meet a scientist that has a rational view of the problems we are facing as humans. Great job.
Religion and politics should never be mixed. Wherever Islam goes, disaster follows.
Looking forward to this discussion!! Thank you!!
"The best way to help the poor is by not being one of them."
-Ayn Rand, attributing the quote to Reverend Ike.
I am not sure that large/low scale of population has much to do with poverty.
Ancient human history has shown us that poverty has always been been with us and apparently for our species there is no escape from that.
However one could argue that how much kind, just and humane the rich and powerful humans would like to be to those poorer fellow human beings.
Planting trees to compensate for CO2 emission is a neat idea, but to do so sufficiently we each have to plant 4-5 trees every day throughout our lives.
Federal taxes do not "pay for" anything. Please have Warren Mosler on your channel.
Please have Henry George on.
This conversation is pretty vacant.
Stop with the tree scam.
Retreads about who stole who's land.. million year pissing contest.
Don’t delete my comments! You were absolutely exposed and owned on JRE! It was so cringe hearing you spew your mindless trite! You got OWNED on JRE!!