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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two– Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could. Now we’re going to–never mind... livingearth.substack.com/p/learning-f...

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Learning from Apes

We, the naked ones!

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Recently, a neighbor of mine told me that he saw wolves in his garden. Wolves in Florence? It sounded like the old legend of blind alligators in New York’s sewers. But no; it is for real. How did they arrive here? It is one of the effects of depopulation. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-return...

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The Return of Wolves

Depopulation is causing humans to abandon the lands they once occupied. And the wolves, are back.

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not yet published, but in progress!

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where is everybody? It is the question I asked myself this summer, while driving along a mountain road in Tuscany. One thing struck me: everywhere, most windows were dark, most driveways were empty. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/depopulati...

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Depopulation is Already Here. And it is Having Political Effects.

Why the Right is Winning Elections Everywhere in Europe.

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is an idea that runs through the debate on global warming. It says, “let nature run its course.” We only need a little push to Nature: planting trees, fertilizing the oceans, and seeding the clouds. These ideas clash with simple quantification. livingearth.substack.com/p/carbon-sin...

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Carbon Sinks: a Battle Lost from Start

Nature’s much is little against humans’ too much

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Non c'è nessun rischio per il Titanic. L'iceberg è fatto di mozzarella di bufala. E' bianco, questa è la prova, no? ugobardi.substack.com/p/battaglia-...

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Battaglia sul Clima

L’Iceberg del Titanic era in Realtà una Gigantesca Mozzarella di Bufala

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Facebook is a poor piece of software, a toxic environment, infested by trolls and bots, subjected to a censorship that makes the old Soviet Union censors look like a bunch of cherubs. Correctly, the young abandoned it long ago. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/rip-facebo...

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RIP Facebook

A Seneca Revenge for a Hateful Platform

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Evidentemente, ai grandi modelli linguistici bisogna spiegare che un evento in cui il formaggio mangia un topo è molto meno probabile di un evento in cui un topo mangia il formaggio. Ma cosa potrebbe capire un’IA dell’idea di un formaggio che mangia un topo? ugobardi.substack.com/p/il-formagg...

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Il formaggio che ha mangiato il topo

Un esercizio di narrativa con l’intelligenza artificiale

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These results confirm my (and Judith Curry’s) impression: climate science IS being demonized by specifically conceived and carried out political campaigns. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-memesp...

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How Climate Science is Being Swept to the Dustbin

Measuring the Climate Backlash in Real Time

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Large Language Models have to be told that an event involving cheese eating a mouse is much less probable than one that involves a mouse eating cheese. But I also noted that the probability that cheese could eat mice is not zero. That set my mind at work. chimeras.substack.com/p/the-cheese...

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The Cheese that Ate the Mouse

An exercise in AI fiction

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We do not feed dogs because they are useful. We feed them because we have co-evolved an affective bond that we find rewarding to maintain, and because the cost is trivial relative to our resources. T livingearth.substack.com/p/humans-and...

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Humans and AIs. Lessons from our Dogs

Our AIs descendants will inherit the Earth. And what will our destiny be?

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Per decenni, una domanda ha aleggiato sullo sfondo del pensiero evoluzionistico: perché nessun dinosauro, in 170 milioni di anni, ha mai sviluppato un’intelligenza paragonabile alla nostra? ugobardi.substack.com/p/laltra-fac...

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L’altra faccia del CO2

Nutrimento per le piante, si, ma anche veleno per creature intelligenti.

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO₂. But when carbon dioxide builds up, the body becomes less efficient at getting rid of that waste product, and the reaction that powers our cells begins to slow. More CO₂ means less usable energy. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-other-...

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The Other Side of CO2

Maybe food for plants, but also a poison for intelligent creatures

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is amazing how no one seems to care about truly dangerous things: global warming, pollution, nuclear war, and the like. But, suddenly, everyone was scared stiff when a young researcher sent a tweet stating that he was afraid that AIs could kill us all. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-great-...

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The Great AI Scare of September 2026

Are we afraid of the right things?

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The “Mouse Utopia” studies by John Calhoun on mouse reproduction were performed in the 1960s-1970s. He thought he had demonstrated that overcrowding affected reproduction. It was an unproven conclusion based on a poorly controlled set of experiments. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

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The Worst Scientific Paper Ever Published: Calhoun’s Overcrowding Experiments with Mice

What made mice stop reproducing?

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It looks evident that we are getting dumber. But why? What the hell is happening to human brains?

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Worried About Overpopulation? Why? You shouldn’t be impressed by the large number of people alive today, because decline is built into the current demographic structure. We, humans, are fragile things, quickly swept away by the winds of the future senecaeffect.substack.com/p/worried-ab...

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Worried About Overpopulation? Why?

What you do today, echoes in the future

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Mi sono divertito cercare di capire cosa pensa la gente delle auto elettriche con una serie di immagini che prendevano bonariamente in giro i “no-wattari”. Il risultato è stato una serie di offese, insulti, turpiloquio e cose del genere nei commenti. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/17/a...

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Blog | Auto elettriche, in Italia record di vendite ma siamo ancora indietro: la campagna denigratoria funziona

In Italia le auto elettriche hanno superato il 10% delle vendite, ma restiamo indietro. Ecco perché la transizione fatica

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Trying to sell a book on social media is like trying to sell Chanel No. 5 in a fish market. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/what-if-ev...

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What if Everyone Blocked Anyone They Disagree With?

How Social Media Really Work

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Club of Rome has spent more than fifty years trying to persuade the world of the opposite: that scarcity is tied to the mineral base of the planet. Intelligence cannot replace thermodynamics — except in Walt Disney’s movies and politicians’ speeches. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

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AI: A Magic Wand?

A comment on Emad Mostaque's book: The Last Economy

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

La Russa probabilmente si vede spaparanzato su una sdraio in una spiaggia con uno spritz in mano. Ma la temperatura, ai Caraibi non ha nulla a che vedere con le vampate di calore che ci arrivano addosso oggi in Italia www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/06/26/c...

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Blog | Dice La Russa che non moriremo per il cambiamento climatico. Magra consolazione

Il futuro assomiglia più a Dubai che ai Caraibi: Primavera, Estate e Inferno

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

By developing more and more sophisticated weapon technologies, humankind has been playing a very dangerous game. With nuclear weapons, we already have something that could kill everyone on Earth. The next technology able to do that could be lethal drones. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/drones-pla...

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Drones: Playing Chess With Death

A New Extermination Weapon

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A presentation of a book that goes against the simplified views of the future of the human population on Earth and explains what we are really facing. It is a mix of several trends: we are facing great dangers but also great opportunities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aila...

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The End of Population Growth: A New Report to the Club of Rome

YouTube video by Ugo Bardi

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Are humans "unevolving themselves" by increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere? It is an unsettling hypothesis, but if it turns out to be true, it is not just a question of warming. Humankind's survival depends on removing the CO2 added to the atmosphere. open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

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A New Interpretation of the Rise of Intelligence on Earth

Falling CO2 levels was the key factors

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There is a reason why dinosaurs were big and strong, but not that smart. It has to do with their metabolic system and how it was hampered by the high CO2 levels during the Mesozoic. livingearth.substack.com/p/a-new-inte...

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A New Interpretation of the Rise of Intelligence on Earth

Falling CO2 levels was the key factors

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Auto Elettrica: Nuova versione aggiornata al 2026. Un libro che non parla solo di auto elettriche, ma della trasformazione che ci allontana dai combustibili fossili. Lo trovate su Amazon Italia. www.amazon.it/Auto-Elettri...

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Amazon.it: Auto Elettrica: Un Colpo al Cuore dei Signori del Petrolio - Bardi, Ugo - Libri

Compra Auto Elettrica: Un Colpo al Cuore dei Signori del Petrolio. SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It is unbelievable how many people are fully convinced that Muslims are planning to destroy Western Civilization, replacing the aging Christian population with their high reproduction rate. But is it true? open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

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Population Trends: Are Muslims Planning to Take Over the World?

A report from Belgrade after the presentation of the report to the Club of Rome "The End of Population Growth"

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Is the world’s population going to collapse? We cannot exclude that. It depends on what we will do to prevent a predictable disaster. Unfortunately, the current situation does not seem to indicate that the world’s leaders are acting for that purpose senecaeffect.substack.com/p/population...

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Population Collapse: Can It Be Predicted?

Understanding something is the first step to predicting it

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The story of the world in seven panels

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Most people in the West seem to think that drones kill only bearded lunatics who spend their time chanting “death to America.” But, as John Donne never said, “Ask not for whom the drone is coming; it is coming for thee.” open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

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The Age of Drones has Come: the End of Cities as We Know Them?

Never ask for whom the drone is coming, it is coming for thee.

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Il nuovo centro di conoscenza sulle tendenze demografiche globali. È un’innovazione incredibile: i libri possono ora prendere vita e parlare con una propria voce, utilizzando le conoscenze create dall’autore. open.substack.com/pub/ugobardi...

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La Fine della Crescita della Popolazione: Un Nuovo Modo per Apprendere le Tendenze Demografiche Globali

Dare vita alla conoscenza tramite agenti elettronici

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yikes, it is alive! The new knowledge hub on population growth by Ugo Bardi is on line! See a discussion on "The Seneca Effect." senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-knowle... or access it directly on eopg-knowledge-hub2026.vercel.app. The hub doesn’t replace the book. It complements it.

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The Knowledge Hub: A New Way of Learning about Population Trends

Making knowledge alive using electronic actants

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Chinese "Sycee" system was a two-tiered currency system unique in the history of humankind. Could that system be replicated? And what advantages could it bring? An in-depth analysis based on Stefan Brunnhuber's recent book "The Third Culture" open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

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Changing the Money System. Changing Everything

Stefan Brunnhuber proposal for a double tiered currency system

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ugobardi.bsky.social @ugobardi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A questo punto, la priorità massima è mettersi d’accordo, fermare la guerra, riaprire lo stretto di Hormuz e far ripartire le navi. Non ci eviterà i danni già fatti, ma perlomeno eviterà il peggio www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/05/18/s...

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Blog | Con lo stretto di Hormuz chiuso si rischia il collasso del sistema: uno scenario da tempesta perfetta

La chiusura dello stretto di Hormuz minaccia petrolio, gas naturale e fertilizzanti azotati con uno scenario da tempesta perfetta

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