A Quick Update
Dear Readers,
as I was traveling the better part of the last two weeks, I didn’t have the time to finalize this week’s post. However, I was contacted by a kind reader who generously offered to edit one of my most read articles, Collapse Will Look Nothing Like the Movies. Although this is not what authors generally do, I do feel the need to tip my hat to him, as he did a really fantastic job improving the clarity of the message and eliminating the thousands of grammar errors I made. There is a saying, that ‘English is easy’—which is true if all you want to do is chit-chat—but learning to communicate elaborate ideas in Shakespeare’s language takes a lifetime… Especially, if you are coming from an entirely unrelated branch of the tree of languages (my tribe didn’t even come from the same tree).
If you have ten minutes, please read the revised version of this essay, and if you have already done so, share it with someone. Our society definitely needs a better understanding of our predicament; what is possible, what is not, and more importantly: what’s likely to come. Even though the trajectory of this civilization seems to be dire, being knowledgeable about the roots of our quagmire and planning accordingly takes one half the journey. Those who choose to remain mired in fantasies and denial are in for a rude awakening…
That’s it for this week.
Until next time,
B
There can be a smoothness to 'professional' English that just lets the words float through, and very little remains behind afterwards, whereas a more turbulent, logjamming and whirley-pooly 'authentic' essay may leave more brain-burrs due to the unfamiliarity of words and sentence structures used.
It's nice to appreciate the person who spent that time to do this off their own bat, still.
Please go into detail about electric vehicles and possible material shortages