–In a longer post to TheGreatChange Lorna had asked: What is this list about? Attacking science or solving environmental problems? And if you do the former, how can you address the latter? –I responded: Lorna, There are serious problems with the design of the scientific method. The problem is not with what it has found, … Continue reading What’s wrong with Science? – glad you asked
Regarding Russ Hopfenberg’s article on population carrying capacity Lawrence Espy and Bill Reese similarly replied to Steve Solmony that the model of population growth limited by the natural carrying capacity of the earth was too general. Lawrence had pointed out ‘carrying capacity’ has many diverse natural system and artificial system parts, that evolve very differently and … Continue reading Carrying Capacity – the big picture in the details
CCGroup post 2/12/09 responding to Alex: Phil, I liked your coded message. You mean a threshold like ‘peak oil’? Or the peak carrying capacity of the earth in terms of population? The question is, how do you propose to reduce demand? Right now, governments are doing their damnedest to stimulate demand to save the global … Continue reading Getting peeks at the the coming peaks
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