Human interference polluting the genome??

Anselmo & all, I think it’s very relevant to consider the accumulating adverse genetic change due to human intervention. The principal process of evolution is not yet well understood yet though. “Punctuated equilibrium” requires a mechanism for relatively rapid change of the whole genome rather than a selective drift of individual genes, and as yet … Continue reading Human interference polluting the genome??

Measuring CO2 lifespan… and signs of nature’s rejection

O2 post: Mauro asked about sorting out “carbon sinks” That’s an excellent question. What you want is the *accumulative* total effect, for the *choice* being made, not so much the particular carbon sink (if what you want is to give people ways to decide what choices are better than others). The way you’re starting is … Continue reading Measuring CO2 lifespan… and signs of nature’s rejection

Can ‘intelligence’ have an impact?

From: phil henshaw Wednesday, September 23, 2006 8:09 PM To: ‘overpopulation@googlegroups.com’ Subject: RE: religion and overpopulation Bob, Perhaps if you thought of each kind of intelligence as a different language, only capable of receiving and interpreting certain kinds of nature’s phrases, you’d get the meaning of ‘cultural’ that I intended.  There’s women’s intelligence, for example, often quite different … Continue reading Can ‘intelligence’ have an impact?

RE: internalism…&things missing from approximation

Stan, Approximation sweeps away ‘fuzziness’, and one thing your and my conceptions are completely consistent on is “any system during its development moves from being more vague to becoming more definitely embodied”. There are issues in differentiating descriptive, explanatory, and organizational/behavioral ‘fuzziness’, but it’s those “fuzzy bits” that are the main thing approximation sweeps away. … Continue reading RE: internalism…&things missing from approximation

By 2020 – The Year of Clear Vision

By 2020 the investors of the world will see their self-interest and stop compounding their returns, allowing the global economy to climax at a high stable rate of change, forestalling the climax of investment with a loss of resilience, expectation failures, environmental collapse, conflict and mistakes. The real limit of economic growth is the loss … Continue reading By 2020 – The Year of Clear Vision