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Yuval Noah Harari

What Yuval Noah Harari thinks about sustainability

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Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.

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  1. Our readingHumanity is on the verge of ecological collapse caused by the misuse of its own power

    Their wordsWe are on the verge of ecological collapse, caused by the misuse of our own power.

    ↗Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Random House, 2025 paperback edition)books.google.com All 31 from this book

  3. Our readingSaving the environment does not require wrecking the economy, only getting our priorities right

    Their wordsIt means that to save the environment, we don’t need to completely derail the economy or abandon the achievements of modern civilization. We just need to get our priorities right.

    ↗The Surprisingly Low Price Tag on Preventing Climate Disaster (TIME)time.com 4th of 5 in this piece

  5. Our readingCredit lets us build the present at the expense of the future, on the assumption that future resources will be more abundant

    Their wordsCredit enables us to build the present at the expense of the future. It's founded on the assumption that our future resources are sure to be far more abundant than our present resources.

    ↗Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Vintage, 2015 edition; first published in Hebrew 2011; translated by the author with John Purcell and Haim Watzman)books.google.com All 35 from this book

  7. Our readingEcological degradation is not the same thing as resource scarcity

    Their wordsEcological degradation is not the same as resource scarcity.

    ↗Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Vintage, 2015 edition; first published in Hebrew 2011; translated by the author with John Purcell and Haim Watzman)books.google.com All 35 from this book