迷ひぬ、ふかき「にるばな」に、
たわやの髮は身を捲きぬ、
たゆげの
壁にゑがける
夢の
艶も
愛欲の
窓の夜あけを
祕密の
ああ「にるばな」よ、
鏡は曇る、
まじる
鏡は晴れぬ、影と影、
覺めし
迷ひぬ、ふかき「にるばな」に、
たわやの髮は身を捲きぬ、
たゆげの
壁にゑがける
夢の
艶も
愛欲の
窓の夜あけを
祕密の
ああ「にるばな」よ、
鏡は曇る、
まじる
鏡は晴れぬ、影と影、
覺めし
今朝あけぼのの浦にして
われこそ見つれ、
み空と海の
君や青空、われや海、
ああ醉心地、
胸ぞわななく、さこそかの
か廣き海も顫ひしか。
Thucydides’s Trap refers to the natural, inevitable discombobulation that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power… the resulting structural stress makes a violent clash the rule, not the exception.
The ecological concept of human carrying capacity is necessarily complicated because human beings are the ‘ultimate ecosystem engineers’ who moderate the environment for their benefit. For at least the last few hundred years, human ingenuity, access to massive stocks of fossil fuels, and technological development have driven facilitation whereby increasing human abundance has promoted higher population growth rates. However, this positive relationship broke down during the 1950s, and by 1962, the global human population entered a phase where the growth rate consistently declined as population increased. The onset of this negative phase occurred 8 years before a global biocapacity deficit began in 1970. The onset of the negative phase also varies regionally, with the lowest-income and highest fertility regions entering this phase later than higher-income regions. A Ricker logistic model fitted to the negative phase predicts that the global population could reach 11.7–12.4 billion people between 2067 and 2076. The same model fitted to the facilitation phase predicts a maximum population of 2.5 billion people that Earth might be able to maintain. The negative phase also correlates strongly with the trend in global temperature anomaly, ecological footprint, and total emissions, with more of their variation explained by increasing population size rather than increasing per-capita consumption. The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources.

Schematic of DNA cassette tape and DNA cassette tape drive.
(A) Using barcode patterns for optical file addressing and thereby creating physical partitions on DNA tape. Each physical partition has a unique address and supports the DMRM function. The ZIFs layer protects the encoded DNA and can be quickly generated and removed before and after DNA recovery.
(B) DNA cassette tape drive with completely automatic operation and file management system is used with DNA tape.
I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.
Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase—some jackboot, Achilles’ heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse—into the dustbin where it belongs.