To ask the right question is how we can reduce our negative impacts on the world. Choosing the right things to spend on doesn’t really do that, for two very good reasons. Most money you spend will have average impacts per dollar anyway, producing 3/4 lb of CO2 and contributing to […]
The real trouble with understanding your own accumulative effects on the world is that the human theory of cause and effect, like pool balls bouncing around transmitting effects from elsewhere, isn’t the way nature accumulates effects. Bouncing balls is not the glue nature uses, you might say. The effects of pressures and forces are real […]
I think the answer is, well, yes of course… Most people seem to
intuitively confuse increasing their access to resources with increasing the
supply when increasing their access to resources actually decreases the earth’s
supply.
This is another way to understand the various mysterious efforts
to reduce the impacts of growth by streamlining and accelerating growth, which
of course multiplies its […]
From Jim Maendel on a Linkedin Foresight group
Phil,
[I was] just looking for smart people to join our group. After checking out your site, I believe you may be overqualified. Your stuff is brilliant. I found this portion on the market pundits fascinating:
“Well, I’ve been wondering for a long time why the flows of change […]
Jan 25,2010 comment Re: Alternative Energy Newswire’s We need not make any important sacrifices for natural life style
I wish I could get the next level of thinking to spread as easily as the old thinking keeps spreading… The waves we’re making in nature are indeed simply too big, but we regularly take the wrong message […]
letter to NPR -
You say “all things considered”.
How about looking around to see what you’ve been missing? If familiar ideas seem exhausted, what chance is there someone with surprising new observations on our various “wicked problems” would have something worth looking into?
What if such a person […]
.. pointing out how holding corporate money to a higher standard of truthfulness can now becomes profitable with the supreme court’s removal of all controls on corporate speech ..
Friends,
I’ve been sort of waiting for this.
“Fiduciary duty > noun: the legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary”
It occurred to […]
There’s an enormous omission being made. This week is a critical time to raise it. Human culture is part of a physical world, and the spectrum of physical causes of the collapse is being neglected. You should write about it, your way, but I can help a lot if you like too.
Despite the rather long […]
In response to a post by Marshall Goldsmith of Harvard Business review on Dan Arley, the author of “Predictably Irrational”, for which Marshall posted a thank-you note.
December 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM (w/ minor edit)
Marshall,
There’s a great way to actually trace a lot of these phenomena as they happen, and learn how to recognize some […]
re: Chris Nelder - Real Solutions to the Energy and Climate Crises posted on Energy & Capital
Yes, the overweening influence of corporate lobbyists has effectively neutralized policy and confused the public debate on our most serious problems. Yes, the capitalistic system favors short-term concentrated profits over long-term public good. And yes, the simple human preference […]