inertia

The physics of greenhouse gases, the inertia of our energy systems and the pace of policy change all point to a relatively predictable climate trajectory.

Defaults work because they harness people’s inertia, procrastination and tendency to stick with the path of least resistance, instead of requiring them to make active and often complex decisions.

I’ve come to think that inertia is among the most pernicious forces that can work on a society or an individual.

Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.

That inertia can lock in not only the technology but also the expanded scope of surveillance it enables.