The University of Hawaii Foundation now has an annual luncheon to honor its donors, and I happened to sit next to  Chip Fletcher,  dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). Welcome by President Wendy Hensel. Chip has effectively been dean of SOEST for now around a decade.  We talked about things in general, but in particular, he thought that I would find interest in a paper he published with others.  On 2April2024 he was lead author of an epic paper published in  PNAS Nexus : Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future   Their  PNAS Nexus  article is a gold open access ( meaning freely available to the general public ) contribution published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in partnership with Oxford University Press.  I of course read the paper, but as I am a colleague of his, asked an independent Google AI to tell me what it could about this publica...