tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00What Is SustainableWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger1005125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-70337872536192676112024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:002024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Your old friends Jerry gehringer Jeweler had a bou...Your old friends Jerry gehringer Jeweler had a bout with cancer and his daughter posted a go fund me page uuubigdummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05434908385580354354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-77152964196267231652023-12-25T10:37:11.388-08:002023-12-25T10:37:11.388-08:00Hello Rick, do you remember Malcolm from the Nelso...Hello Rick, do you remember Malcolm from the Nelson st house? He married that woman you liked ? Oh Jerry gehringer Jeweler, had a bout with cancer, and has a go fund me page, and if you want a new adventure for 2024 I still have a guest house in Vail Arizona, off grid in the middle of 100 acres, with Star filled nights<br />Paul.. Saint<br /><br />Living off grid for 20 years is interesting uuubigdummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05434908385580354354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-28743897919938926322023-10-11T16:53:06.951-07:002023-10-11T16:53:06.951-07:00For readers of this blog who may not already know,...For readers of this blog who may not already know, Michael Dowd sadly passed away. I know he was a commenter on this site. <br />https://jordanperry.substack.com/p/michael-dowdPerrannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-52506939799828992462023-10-02T17:53:50.590-07:002023-10-02T17:53:50.590-07:00Testing if anonymous comments work.Testing if anonymous comments work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-9652393302224803772023-09-17T12:26:07.783-07:002023-09-17T12:26:07.783-07:00Wow! I was notified of three blogger comments tod...Wow! I was notified of three blogger comments today. It seems like 4 or 5 years since this happened. I've been busy working on the last 30 pages of Wild Free and Happy. It's super challenging, because I'm going to have much to say about the notion of "stopping climate change." This magical thinking is a mirage. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-20991389493160840432023-09-17T04:51:46.338-07:002023-09-17T04:51:46.338-07:00Goodness
Goodness<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-29147899670144256762023-09-17T02:39:30.492-07:002023-09-17T02:39:30.492-07:00Like this;) Like this;) AIGShttps://haftpflichtversicherungentest.de/aig-haftpflichtversicherung-test/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-65973495566041676422023-09-16T19:04:02.246-07:002023-09-16T19:04:02.246-07:00You've been pretty quiet lately, but comments ...You've been pretty quiet lately, but comments seem to work. I'll stop by more often.Steve Carrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11706114439618856525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-20617262346744928882023-08-25T14:34:20.576-07:002023-08-25T14:34:20.576-07:00Testing to see if comments work. Testing to see if comments work. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-49469238050577804832022-07-14T14:10:49.142-07:002022-07-14T14:10:49.142-07:00Common, Tom, you should know better. Are you serio...Common, Tom, you should know better. Are you seriously unaware of "The ecocidal hubris of 'The Almighty We'"?<br /><br />It is WAY too late for "Us" to "consciously choose" Degrowth. Not only will we not do it, we cannot possibly do it given biophysical, social, and psychological reality as it really is (rather than as we wish it to be.)<br /><br />In any event, RICK, I had a friend and colleague ask me if I knew when WFH will be completed. What should I tell her?Michael Dowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915893031346978453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-92013271747835053592022-07-14T13:57:35.283-07:002022-07-14T13:57:35.283-07:00well the times they are changing
https://youtu.be...well the times they are changing<br /><br />https://youtu.be/UbCIQujy-uU<br />#timothydixon #propheticdream #dream<br />Timothy Dixon Had Dream Five Years Into The Futureuuubigdummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05434908385580354354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-4413112313916483402022-07-14T10:42:20.376-07:002022-07-14T10:42:20.376-07:00Hi Thom! Degrowth could reduce the ongoing damage...Hi Thom! Degrowth could reduce the ongoing damage to some degree. I agree that humankind will never mindfully choose to pursue it on a global scale. On the other hand substantial degrowth is guaranteed, as the human mob smacks into more and more immovable limits — topsoil, energy, phosphorus, groundwater, and on and on. My own life has degrown quite a bit in the last 20 years, by choice. The world hasn’t noticed.<br /><br />Folks who pay close attention to climate affairs perceive that we’ve triggered something like an avalanche, a massive uncontrollable transformation of the planet’s ecosystems that seems likely to deliver blunt force degrowth, and blindside life as we know it.<br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-75093098726003221702022-07-14T07:47:55.104-07:002022-07-14T07:47:55.104-07:00We already know what to do. It's called "...We already know what to do. It's called "Degrowth." Will we do it? Not a chance.Thom Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07467484547758078809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-17565625063323813112022-07-03T16:44:25.326-07:002022-07-03T16:44:25.326-07:00INNOVATION
7 Eccentric Inventions by Nikola Tesla ...INNOVATION<br />7 Eccentric Inventions by Nikola Tesla That Were Never Built<br />From artificial tidal wave machine to a thought camera, Tesla had interesting ideas.<br /><br />As someone almost completely associated with electricity, it shouldn’t be surprising that many of Tesla’s patents are in the field of electricity generation and transmission. What a lot of people don’t know is that Tesla also tried to build a tower that would transmit electricity through the air. He even got American financier J.P. Morgan to finance the building of Wardenclyffe Tower on the North Shore of Long Island, which Tesla hoped to adapt to transmit electricity to New York City.<br /><br />Well maybe some one will get it from uuubigdummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05434908385580354354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-32314331855896708962022-06-29T15:22:02.019-07:002022-06-29T15:22:02.019-07:00Jevons paradox, if you will. Although I'm not ...Jevons paradox, if you will. Although I'm not sure why he gets to put his name on such a fundamental systems principle. I guess because it sounds good :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-57878143024106809712022-06-29T13:35:30.779-07:002022-06-29T13:35:30.779-07:00In 2022, I discovered that a scanned PDF of this b...In 2022, I discovered that a scanned PDF of this book is a free download (64 mb).<br /><br />http://wildancestors.blogspot.com/2013/01/wolf-children-and-feral-man.htmlWhat Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-51484489044698279922022-06-26T21:56:11.329-07:002022-06-26T21:56:11.329-07:00Hi Bud! Thanks for the suggestion. At this point...Hi Bud! Thanks for the suggestion. At this point in time, my top priority is finishing the revisions to Wild Free and Happy and sending it out into the world. I've been working on this project way too long, and it's wearing me out. Maybe next year I'll have time.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-12993003355873958262022-06-26T08:57:29.332-07:002022-06-26T08:57:29.332-07:00Many people here would surely have an interest in ...Many people here would surely have an interest in paleontologist Henry Gee's 2021 book <i>A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters</i>. A summary quote: "Against the backdrop of geological time, the sudden rise of humanity is of negligible significance." A shocking idea for a species most of whom consider us superior and of great importance on Earth and in the universe.Bud Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930005440994540130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-34611436361756528862022-06-26T08:36:51.017-07:002022-06-26T08:36:51.017-07:00Howdy Steve! Yes, it’s been an interesting and ex...Howdy Steve! Yes, it’s been an interesting and extremely painful time to be alive. It’s especially painful for me, because I’ve been closely following the war on Mother Earth for 25+ years — a front row seat at Eco-Armageddon. On every front, we’re destroying as much as possible, as fast as possible.<br /><br />In July-September 2021 I devoted four sample posts (55, 56, 57, 58) to what I’ve learned about climate change. We have clearly created a monster that we cannot stop, and its plan is to HAMMER the planet as we know it. A thorough source on climate is https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/albedo.html<br /><br />If you’re on Facebook, join the Arctic News group. It’s the same news, but other folks contribute additional information. Questions asked/answered. <br /><br />Another site presents links to news events around the world. One day, climate news, the next day economy news — 365 days a year. https://climateandeconomy.com/<br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-24685313548229205612022-06-25T13:14:21.816-07:002022-06-25T13:14:21.816-07:00The third option- Nope, not gonna happen.
Hi Rich...The third option- Nope, not gonna happen.<br /><br />Hi Richard! Good to see a post from you. <br /><br />Between the MPP as mentioned by Bud, and an overdeveloped denial circuit in our brains, the least painful decline is not going to happen. I certainly wish the various positive feedback loops set in motion and deadly technology laying about the landscape will not end everything, but it's not looking good. <br /><br />A blogger I used to follow has since gone dark, but his blog was called "praying for calamity". The point being that our only hope was if the global finance/production/consumption system collapsed sooner rather than later. Ah well, so it goes.<br /><br />I note that while nuclear has been on a long pause here in the U.S., China and Russia have continued going gangbusters, and helping all manner of other countries build more. <br />https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx<br /><br />Recently, the U.S. is making moves to reignite nuclear :), but with the "safe" SMRs. Dairyland Power, who supply electricity to my small local coop, just recently inked a deal with Nuscale, so the straw grasping continues.<br /><br />Steve Carrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11706114439618856525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-42845774934670845922022-06-21T20:41:54.576-07:002022-06-21T20:41:54.576-07:00Yes. Well said in my opinion.Yes. Well said in my opinion.Bud Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930005440994540130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-45567614853371587812022-06-21T20:33:38.638-07:002022-06-21T20:33:38.638-07:00Right. I wrote something similar in Sample 14 of ...Right. I wrote something similar in <a href="https://wildancestors.blogspot.com/2019/05/wild-free-and-happy-sample-14.html" rel="nofollow">Sample 14 of my manuscript</a>.<br /><br />William Rees noted that every species has two traits. (1) They will expand to all locations that are accessible to them, if conditions allow their survival. On the other hand, negative feedback can discourage new expansion, or encourage retreats. The climate might be hostile. Food or water resources might be scarce. Powerful predators or hostile people might live there. So might disease agents, like tsetse flies, malarial mosquitoes, or parasitic worms.<br /><br />For walking critters, the area accessible for expansion has limits. People with domesticated horses or camels have greater potential for long distance expansion. The same is true for folks having watercraft that can travel on rivers, or move across seas and oceans. Also, folks with flying machines, or driving machines. Critters that know how to make fire and sew warm clothing can expand into snow country, far beyond the normal and appropriate habitats for tropical primates.<br /><br />(2) When critters expand into new habitat, they will utilize all available resources — until they smack into limits, and have to back off. This is no big deal for animals that live as they naturally evolved to live — without complex tools. When a resource becomes scarce, they can switch to a substitute, if any, or they can move elsewhere, or they can turn into cat food.<br /><br />Technology can expand what resources are available. A mammoth is not a resource that an empty handed hominin can utilize, but a hominin with a thrusting spear, stone blade, and fire drill can. Fishing with a hand net is one thing, a motorized trawler is another. Hunter-gatherers did not mine and smelt ores, fabricate machines, drill oil wells, or replace wilderness with mega farms growing millions of tons of corn — but industrial civilizations do.<br /><br />As you can see here, there are limits to expansion. Innovation and technology can push back narrow limits, sometimes to a huge degree. For example, 10,000 years ago, the human population was maybe 10 million. Today, it’s seven-point-something billion, thanks our ability to cleverly bypass countless limits, our feeble ability to foresee the unintended consequences, and our reluctance to question reality when we’re enjoying regular meals. <br /><br />This artificially swollen carrying capacity can only be temporary, because it is fantastically unsustainable. Modern folks, the most educated generation ever, have a fervent blind faith in the ridiculous idea that we have no limits. They’ve been angrily pissing on Thomas Malthus for almost 200 years for suggesting theWhat Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-32361938642710577752022-06-21T13:50:29.200-07:002022-06-21T13:50:29.200-07:00I agree completely that "...cultural evolutio...I agree completely that "...cultural evolution has turbocharged the human saga — explosive population growth, colonization, eco-destruction, and so on." AND I think that, more fundamentally (and inevitably), those turbocharged effects have occurred as an expression of Lotka's Maximum Power Principle (MPP, as described by Howard Odum) once fossil fuels became available. Given our clever (not intelligent) nature and the availability of fossil fuels, the MPP assured Near Term Human Extinction and the 6th mass extinction. But probably not the extinction of all life on Earth--even with the soon-coming meltdowns of 450 nuclear power plants. Reading Henry Gee's recently published <i>A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters</i> makes that pretty clear.Bud Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930005440994540130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-8015531527508541382022-06-21T13:31:02.593-07:002022-06-21T13:31:02.593-07:00Hi Bud! We’re using different flavors of semantic...Hi Bud! We’re using different flavors of semantics, methinks. What I mean by cultural evolution is the domestication of fire, animals, and plants. Weaponry, transportation, communication, etc. I was born in 1952, and my lifetime has been a hurricane of change. For me, cultural evolution has turbocharged the human saga — explosive population growth, colonization, eco-destruction, and so on. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-54380050201551512402022-06-21T07:35:13.613-07:002022-06-21T07:35:13.613-07:00It seems to me that cultural evolution occurs on, ...It seems to me that cultural evolution occurs on, and for the most part determined by, a biological, neurological foundation constructed over millions of years of natural and sexual selection, all driven by energy flow through the Earth's biosphere. (I write "for the most part" because epigenetic feedback processes occur. And by "determined" I do NOT mean "predetermined". Chance always plays a fundamental role at all scales from the subatomic to the cosmic.) It seems to me that ideas, beliefs, and behaviors all occur as physical, biological processes. In other words, no false Cartesian duality occurs with our perceptions, thinking, feelings, fantasizing, or emotions. Our biological, neurological networks construct all of our experiences--including all cultural evolution. Or so it seems to me. Maybe I've got this all wrong.Bud Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930005440994540130noreply@blogger.com