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Jan 15, 2022Liked by Robert Wright

Again chock-full with very valuable and well-researched information--thank you.

The term Waste Age was new to me. It's somewhat reminiscent of the dystopian tale of an AI algorithm going rogue and producing nothing but paper clips. Evidently we've saddled ourselves with an economic machinery that does that, but instead of producing (only) paper clips, it converts carbon (in oil, coal, or wood) either into plastic or else CO2, both of which are soiling our shared environment and are seriously jeopardizing our future.

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Er, Robert, I think you mean Robert Kaplan, not Kagan, but I can see why they are easy to conflate. As Wikipedia puts it, "Kaplan is not related to journalist Lawrence Kaplan, with whom he is occasionally confused. He is also sometimes confused with neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan.[5]"

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Problem with "making deals" with Russia (ok, they won't join NATO...)...is that enough is never enough. Give an inch, they take a mile. They're gangsters.

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