Anselmo,
Right, it’s not only that things get more expensive, but more profitable to make more expensive too. On the downslope as shortages develop faster than expectations are broken the prices of things are driven up. Then people who control resources profit from accelerating their depletion which vastly worsens the problem.
I think that’s […]
Re: HDS sustainability Connections site from From: Will Allen [learningforsustainability.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:57 AM
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> That may have been less confusing if it had been sent from my e-mail, not my wife’s ……
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> Hi Phil,
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> I’ve just been looking through your connections site and very much appreciated the structure, links and information […]
response to Carbon Equity newsletter www.carbonequity.info 1/20/09
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CE,
Your list of current climate change media sources is amazing, thanks, but troubling too, showing our deep confusion.
It’s amazing what an outpouring of warnings and commitments to act on solutions there is… The trouble is that all the warnings are responding to impacts caused by the profit making […]
from RunningOnEmpty post 1/18/08
Thinking 100 years into the future with assumptions from 100 years in the past… is a problem. It’s tragic to hear of Barak’s crystal clear statement about global warming, knowing that preventing global warming requires physically lowering our total resource footprint on the earth so we can live sustainably, […]
Helena Norberg-Hodge,
A new friend mentioned your writings, and I find you are asking a lot of questions I think I can help answer. I’m a scientist who is slowly learning how to explain to people what I found.
Understanding how nature changed the world to make growth profoundly unprofitable is something I view from a physical […]
Charlie, - from 1/13/09 reply
You asked:
> Actually is entropy the right word for you? In a way you are asking
> about anti entropy, about the ability to construct structure, how that
> increases, plateaus then decreases. THat might make it clearer ??
> Charlie
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I think the energy consumed by an energy flow process (entropy) can generally be […]
Steve, reply 1/12/09 to post below
Very nice letter, clear and solid. I think one more thing that people will need to understand in some way is “why the rules changed”, and then address what rules changed and what new rules apply. The basic public support for “sustainability” has been achieved, we just seem clueless as […]
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David, reply 1/10/09
Interesting list of studies and alternatives! In the same way that “clean coal” seems to never have existed except as wishful thinking, “good growth” never has either, […]
1/9/09 post to ClimateConcernGroup
re: Consumer-side v. Producer-side Environmentalism http://links.org.au/node/843
No doubt it does help to look around at all the contradictions, and try to connect them, but from a scientific view each side of a circle still represents the same object. The difference between the “production” and “consumption” side, […]
Bob, 1/8/09 post to Downslope
Well, people ignoring contexts certainly do make it hard to learn from change, and even learning by hard experience after the fact doesn’t always help. Humans often are so fixated on old ideas in new worlds they only learn by generational succession (with old ideas dying […]