Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What is wrong about allowing money to “grow” as if it were a real thing? Answer: Real things grow, mature and die. Pretend money grows and grows every second of every hour of every day and night. Pretend money therefore tends to overwhelm the growth rate of real resources.
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
If abortion were put into the context of the long history of human attempts to avoid starvation by regulating population growth, we might come to a different conclusion about what “pro-life” really means.
The converging crisis: ecology, energy and economics (Ottawa talk tonight)
A Prosperous Way Down by the Odums
A global view of peopled nature
Magical thinking can often lift our spirits and make us think anything is possible, that is, until reality intrudes and leads to painful and sometimes catastrophic results.
Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins. Without much help from anyone, ruins can tell us of our history as a species.
Humans have pushed planet into a new geological era
AGU: Climate ‘clearly out of balance’
Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish
For those too young to remember, this is what a recession looks like
‘Bernanke rides to the rescue’ – more cowboy deception
Reich: The Politics of an economic nightmare
Soros: The worst market crisis in 60 years
Steady state economy
Lester Brown – Plan B 3.0
The sixth extinction
Rich countries owe poor a huge environmental debt
“Due to Global Warming, the Mason-Dixon line is moving further and further north every year. It now runs through New Jersey. In another decade or two, it will be running through New England.” (satire)
A gracious fall is better than a bitter, ballistic, hostile one. The flexibility of bamboo would be a better model for our fall than rigid, fossilized bones likely to break and shatter. Then we may come back up, though hopefully in a different, more mature way.
IPCC chief Pachauri: Lifestyle changes can curb climate change
Satish Kumar on nature, spirituality and activism
Christians playing their part in sustainability
Astyk: Making the case for self-sacrifice
A sustainability Renaissance man
