Steven Pinker

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As young people rightly demand real solutions to climate change, the question is not what to do — eliminate fossil fuels by 2050 — but how. Beyond decarbonizing today’s electric grid, we must use clean electricity to replace fossil fuels in transportation, industry and heating. We must provide for the fast-growing energy needs of poorer countries and extend the grid to a billion people who now lack electricity. And still more electricity will be needed to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by midcentury.

Where will this gargantuan amount of carbon-free energy come from? The popular answer is renewables alone, but this is a fantasy.…  Seguir leyendo »

Decenas de colombianos celebraron el acuerdo final de paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y las Farc. Guillermo Legaria / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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El cese al fuego y el esperado Acuerdo Final de paz entre el gobierno de Colombia y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia marcan más que el fin de una guerra. Es un hito para la paz en el continente americano y el mundo.

La guerra entre el gobierno colombiano y las Farc es el conflicto armado más antiguo en el hemisferio occidental, además de ser el último que data de la Guerra Fría. Desde Alaska a Tierra del Fuego, la guerra, en el sentido clásico de un conflicto violento por el dominio de un territorio en el que por lo menos hay un ejército nacional combatiente, ha desaparecido.…  Seguir leyendo »

The Colombian people celebrated a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels in Bogota, Colombia on Wednesday. Guillermo Legaria/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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The peace treaty announced this week between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, marks more than the end of one war. It is a milestone for peace in the Americas and the world.

The 52-year war between the Colombian state and the FARC is the oldest and only armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere, and the last one held over from the Cold War. From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, war — in the classic sense of a violent conflict over governance or territory fought by at least one national army — has disappeared.…  Seguir leyendo »

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The departure of the last American troops from Iraq brings relief to a nation that has endured its most painful war since Vietnam. But the event is momentous for another reason. The invasion of Iraq was the most recent example of an all-out war between two national armies. And it could very well be the last one.

The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian. Aren’t we facing an endless war on terror, a clash of civilizations, the menace of nuclear rogue states? Isn’t war in our genes, something that will always be with us?

The theory that war is becoming passé gained traction in the late 1980s, when scholars noticed some curious nonevents.…  Seguir leyendo »