Kurt Cobb

606 posts

Kurt Cobb

Kurt Cobb

@kurtcobb

Kurt Cobb is a freelance writer and communications consultant who writes frequently about energy and environment.

Katılım Şubat 2012
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Kurt Cobb
Kurt Cobb@kurtcobb·
Dear Readers, From today forward I will cease posting here. I invite you to visit my blog to subscribe via email or in a reader or to visit me on Facebook or LinkedIn. I thank you for your interest in my work and your thoughtful comments through the years. resourceinsights.blogspot.com
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Empowering the individual has become a frequent slogan for today's tech pioneers. As that empowerment grows, it makes it possible for an individual or a small group to threaten all of society. My post for this week: resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2025/01/democr…
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Increasingly, it seems that the ongoing spread of bird flu among cattle and the possible evolution of a strain that can be transmitted between humans will be the biggest story of 2025. I hope I'm wrong. My post for this week: resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2024/12/bird-f…
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BartVanEkerman@EkermanVan4619·
@kurtcobb you didn't foresee fracking, maybe you'll be happily surprised again, we'll see
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Kurt Cobb@kurtcobb·
The same factors that led to Donald Trump's election in 2016 are still with us. I revisit a previous piece that discussed these before the 2016 election with more detail on the thinking of French philosopher Bruno Latour which inspired my 2016 analysis. resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2024/11/donald…
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Kurt Cobb@kurtcobb·
"Metabolical", a book by a medical researcher and physician, tell us that the relationship between our diet (heavy on processed foods) and chronic disease is far more profound than we've been told. My post for this week: resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-am…
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Kurt Cobb@kurtcobb·
Modern humans have come to believe that new technology is better and also benign. The downsides of AI and synthetic biology are already visible. Now, they are being combined. My post for this week: resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2024/10/ai-syn…
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Kurt Cobb@kurtcobb·
Supply chain problems keep popping up as industries fail to recognize their vulnerabilities. A little-known and critical vulnerability for the tech industry just made itself visible in the wake of Hurricane Helene. My post for this week: resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2024/10/single…
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