Yesterday Chuck Hall circulated a Lester Brown article on the potential for nuclear power, and asked his “peak oil’ list to comment. Lester has been among the most farsighted observers of the collision between man and earth. My comment below was one of sixteen, but got a couple very nice complements:
“Wow is right. Charlie, I can’t believe […]
Anselmo,
How evolution seems to have alternated in majestic cycles in developing the oxygen atmosphere is indeed a wonderful thing to discover. I expect that theory of how the banded Iron formations in Proterozoic rocks might have been caused will hold up. To put it in the larger context, the cycles you speak of from 1.8 […]
Dirk & O2,
Thanks for that outline of fuel use per person for different modes of transportation. The defect of both that method and mine is the effort needed to estimate what’s being left out. What I think people need is a list of impacts something like the one you provided, but that is easyier, inclusive […]
Peter,
Your amazement that we don’t see belief in Gaia as a living thing and a more immediate great ‘religious’ experience to choose may make more sense than you realize. There is a big gulf of separation between people who see the integrity and mystery of whole individual systems and those who still hold the wide belief […]
To NPR as we watch it all collapse
It’s high time you started asking that. Lots of people have studied it. Consider it as a recurrent “tripping point”.
To look at one piece at a time it helps to “assume away” ALL the “usual suspects”. Say you assume the earth has infinite resources, people have limitless good will […]
Jack & O2,
re: http://blog.fymmie.de/28/09/2008/ebony-and-irony/
The idea in the Bill Mahers video was that the government rescue of the financial system seems to pass the solution back to the people who created the problem, with just upping the ante. The government signs up for even more debt than ever before. Basically, bailing out people with inadequate income […]