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This article dates from 2004 and is about Ronald Wright, the author of "A Short History of Progress", a non-fiction book which got my attention because I recently saw "Surviving Progress", a documentary film heavily inspired by that book. The film is a must. And so is the book most probably (I haven't read it yet). Also, I totally agree with Wright, that Humanity needs a global and high-impact catastrophe in order to make it understand it is speeding on a suicide route: I think it is going to take a near-miss to turn around public opinion, particularly the political agenda and the thinking of the people at the top of the economic food chain. The best we can hope for is something that hits us hard enough to slap us in the face and wake us up, but not hard enough to knock us out.