2025-06-09
But Worse.
In the 1800s the Highland Clearances of the crofters (to make way for more profitable sheep-farming) took place, leading to a forced exodus of crofters to the new world, or anywhere they could still scratch a living.
Today we face not the local threat that confronted the crofters, but compound global threats:
an employment threat - we will be displaced by AI from the work that we have traditionally undertaken - and
an entirely real threat from the fantasists who push the entirely false threat of climate doom from CO2, and are intent on rewilding our food production streams (farms to you and me) that we need in order to eat.
So there will be no place for us in their global Brave New World, nor anywhere to which to flee.
Both of these threats are global and therefore existential - we cannot simply move elsewhere to escape them.
Even if we decide to join Elon on Mars, he will undeniably take AI with him and all who go with him - and I dare say that the climate on Mars is certainly a bigger threat than the climate here on Earth!
So we must confront and defeat these threats directly.
Whilst there is nothing new under the sun, our reaction this time must be different.
