Category: Writing
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How to believe in humanity
Written by Simon Olling Rebsdorf, PhD, Climate and Science Advocate I used to believe in humanity. Not blindly. But with a kind of tired hope. I believed we could grow. That empathy could stretch beyond the present, beyond ourselves. That we were capable of imagining life that wasn’t ours, yet. I believed in potential. In…
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Respecting your peers
Respecting others is sometimes almost impossible. Right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism, religious or political fundamentalism, anti-science, flat-eathers, etc. But in my view, they should all be respected from the outset.
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Science and technology forecasting
Natural sciences, such as physics, astronomy and biology, have developed explosively in the 20th century. Naturally, we have no reliable knowledge of how they will develop in the future, and we can only guess about future discoveries. While there are extremely reliable predictions of nature based on scientific theories, there is no equivalent prediction of…
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The possibility of living in the ever-present “now” in spite of time
Perhaps the present moment is an illusion in that the moment you cite it, it is the past. Yet all we have are a series of present-state moments. The past is fiction as well as the future. If we fully focus on the here-and-now, are we as attendant to the needs and possibilities that may…
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Growing out of the past as a seed for the future
May 02018* Introduction of Hope The above indication of the year (02018) is not flawed. It tests the possible effect of denoting years not in thousands, but in tens of thousands, in that way indirectly installing a potential hope for imagining a future much further away than we usually tend to think about. But this…
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