Tom Toles illustrates the difficulty — exercise in futility? — of converting to a green economy. In the meantime, here’s the image (click to enlarge):
Tag: sisyphus’ slope
Futility in science
The search for perpetual motion. Read: A short history of the search for perpetual motion, by Donald E. Simanek
Futility, a novel that eerily predicted the sinking of the Titanic
(Update: unfortunately, the Titanic Adventure Slide is no longer available from Allison’s Fun, Inc. No word of it sank. Now available here: nFlatables) From the oracle Wikipedia comes Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan was an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the ocean liner…