tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post4919070394943426875..comments2024-03-27T16:08:30.313-05:00Comments on The Great Change: The Great Pause Week 36: Vaccinating Viral AffluenzaAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-82515052275091836732020-11-29T15:46:10.534-06:002020-11-29T15:46:10.534-06:00Ian Graham: I think it is a mistake to pick and ch...Ian Graham: I think it is a mistake to pick and choose scientific evidence ad hominum. Guy McPherson draws upon both current and outdated or disproven data in his writings and so draws conclusions that sometimes correct and sometimes incorrect. I am happy to acknowledge his conclusions that are correct even when I disagree with him on other points.<br /><br />Joe: As I described in The Biochar Solution (2010), the pre-fossil-fuel, precolumbian populations of the Americas may been greater than one billion. More evidence supporting that theorem, most recently LIDAR imaging, has been produced in the past 10 years. A similar size population may have existed previously in Asia. Of course there are many distinctions between the two and the use of land — the former continuously adding fertility with biochar, the latter making deserts with irrigation and the plow — suggest only one of those kinds of agriculture & civilization would have been sustainable if you take away the migration of germs. Albert Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-24195625418876316052020-11-22T14:33:42.004-06:002020-11-22T14:33:42.004-06:00Can a global population of 8 to 10 billion people ...<i>Can a global population of 8 to 10 billion people be fed, sheltered, kept healthy, and still have iPhones?</i><br /><br />A population of humans that large can't possible live on the earth for very long, nor will it. Even your figure of 2-3 billion is far to high. Pre-fossil-fuel populations were less than 500 million and now that so much of the earth's best farmland has been paved, I suspect that a sustainable population would be much less than that, at least for the next few centuries/millennia until the natural world recovers.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251330546889158364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-71705755823108690552020-11-22T13:58:29.951-06:002020-11-22T13:58:29.951-06:00You put a reference in for a paper by Guy McPherso...You put a reference in for a paper by Guy McPherson but there is no indication what this paper is saying or supporting. In the past you have distanced yourself from GP's thesis and disparaged him. Is this a sign of rehabilitation?Ian Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975374352244687491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-71895665434986261472020-11-22T12:47:39.340-06:002020-11-22T12:47:39.340-06:00Affluence-mania, belief in perpetual growth, our d...Affluence-mania, belief in perpetual growth, our disconnect from Nature and natural law are all cults we have either been led into or joined because we didn't know another way. It's not completely our fault. Powers are in place to try and keep things the way they are: both education about alternative ways of living and being and how those alternatives work (reading all your books, plus reading sources you recommend throughout this blog) plus deprogramming from those "standard" ways of existence will be necessary to correct the path of humanity going forward on this planet. How we voluntarily educate ourselves and engage in deprogramming will determine the degree of change we make. I believe in our future. I just wish biochar and regenerative technologies would starting making greater headway....and soon....Bob Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04080536315967112941noreply@blogger.com