Jochen Fromm

From gluons to galaxies and quarks to quasars: Innovative insights💡about complex adaptive systems.

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2026-03-15 22:42:50 UTC

It is obvious that exponential growth can not go on unlimited in a limited system. There are #LimitsToGrowth in every finite system. So what will the future bring while the superrich hide in their bunkers (even they are unsure how, as Douglas Rushkoff describes in his book)? A..
a) societal collapse and we go extinct
b) societal collapse and we go back to pre-industrial middle ages
c) societal collapse and we create a sustainable post-capitalist economy
I don't know. What do you think? Can we avoid a collapse of a society which is based on exponential growth and exploitation of fossil fuels or is a collapse inevitable?
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=how-everything-can-collapse-a-manual-for-our-times--9781509541386

2026-02-13 16:46:09 UTC

#TRex Tristan at the museum of natural history in #Berlin for #FossilFriday. The #Cassowary bird in Australia and Indonesia is probably the living being that comes closest to him. Almost like a living dinosaur which has similar feet and a strange, creepy call.
https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/064/304/819/184/658/original/0ec39f307a5ff2fd.jpg
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/064/324/321/889/237/original/61c279e7010ac255.jpg

2025-03-05 22:15:48 UTC

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American universities offered refuge to European scholars before WWII. John von Neumann, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and others fled from Europe to U.S. to escape fascism and nazism. Now it seems to be the other way round. @npub1nf4…nqe4 already moved to Scotland early on. Will Trump help to make science in Europe great again @npub1k3y…09rz ?https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/5299/The-scientific-exodus-from-Nazi-Germany

2025-01-01 21:22:22 UTC

Parts of the world have finally begun to realize the magnitude of interconnected global crises: #climatechange, #plasticpollution, resource depletion and ecological collapse. The primary cause is as anthropologist Jason Hickel argues in his book that #capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is wreaking havoc on the natural, living world
https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more