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What Qualities Do the Predicaments We Face Possess?
What Qualities Do the Predicaments We Face Possess? The view from Sunset Rock near Sparta, Tennessee I’d like to address something which has been on my mind quite a bit recently. How we view things or how we judge things has a lot to do with how we see life (our worldview) and the circumstances […]
Economist Steve Keen says the planet cannot sustain 8 billion people | The Business | ABC News
Economist Steve Keen says the planet cannot sustain 8 billion people | The Business | ABC News
Climate Action- Right Way, Wrong Way
Climate Action- Right Way, Wrong Way It seems everywhere I go these days I see signs saying, “Climate Action- Now!”. But what do people mean by climate action? What exactly are they calling for? Are they calling for the right actions? Is our climate message the right one? Are our demands workable? Will the necessary […]
War in a Changing Climate
War in a Changing Climate
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion
It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion July 28 is Earth Overshoot Day. As of that day, for the rest of 2022, human economic activity will be using the planet’s resources beyond its capacity to renew them. Humans now consume things like wood, water, and soil at nearly twice the rate […]
Collapse and The Exponential Function
Collapse and The Exponential Function This is the Guard Shack at the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company as it looks today (this picture taken in 2020). More info can be found at the Wikipedia page and the park’s page. Most everyone reading these articles probably has a good idea of what collapse is. For anyone […]
The Failure of Imagination — Part 2
The Failure of Imagination — Part 2 Are you sure that this is where we are headed…? Image source: Pixabay Most people living in a high-tech modern society take it as a given that the only way forward is through even more technology. The matter of pollution and sadly the question of sustainability has now been […]
The Failure of Imagination — Part 1
The Failure of Imagination — Part 1 Image credit: Gerd Altmann via Pixabay Up until a warm sunny afternoon in May 2019 I had what I would call a rather ordinary concept of the future. I was 37 back then with two little devils — masquerading as my sons — a wife and decent job. I […]
By Gaia Gardener: On Suffering
By Gaia Gardener: On Suffering Buried in the comments of the last post we discussed human overshoot and what should be done about it. I proposed our goal should be to minimize suffering and that the best path to achieving this goal is awareness of Ajit Varki’s Mind Over Reality Transition (MORT) theory. My view, in summary, is […]
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series Keowee Toxaway State Park, South Carolina I have a backlog of articles I have started but haven’t yet finished, so I’m starting with this one which has to do with our impending impasse. I think William Catton, Jr. worded that very well. It actually comes from his […]
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series
Our Impending Impasse and Sid Smith’s New Series Keowee Toxaway State Park, South Carolina I have a backlog of articles I have started but haven’t yet finished, so I’m starting with this one which has to do with our impending impasse. I think William Catton, Jr. worded that very well. It actually comes from his […]
Neighborhood councils to cope with energy decline
Neighborhood councils to cope with energy decline I’m reading “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” which is one of the best books I’ve read in years, and a very hopeful one – this 700 page book is full of evidence that agriculture, capitalism, slavery, greed, and the unfair distribution of wealth we […]
What Is Oil and Why Is It So Special?
What Is Oil and Why Is It So Special? I have written in here several times that no other form of energy can match fossil hydrocarbons in their energy density except for uranium, but uranium requires a nuclear reactor to be utilized; something that cannot be carried by hand (like a container of gasoline can). […]
Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it
Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it Time to get off the economic growth train? Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy […]
