tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post6902216406014673126..comments2024-01-26T17:20:23.015-06:00Comments on The Great Change: A Gathering of Silverbacks: Age of Limits 2014Albert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-50453833681858574642017-10-18T07:22:57.422-05:002017-10-18T07:22:57.422-05:00I think it's fine to ask "What should I b...I think it's fine to ask "What should I be doing now?" if you want to know how to make your own life more resilient - maybe buy some land, learn to grow food, get out of debt, all that kind of thing. <br /><br />For the world as a whole though, what should we be doing? It's hard to know what to do if we don't know where we're aiming for. For example, we need to get off fossil fuels because of the climate crisis but I don't think a world of 11bn people running on wind turbines and solar panels is even remotely possible, and we'd cause a huge amount of environmental damage trying to achieve it. Without magical technology that uses no resources and never wears out, I suspect it's impossible to sustain anywhere near 11bn people on Earth in *any* kind of civilisation, no matter how high-tech or low-tech. Virtually everything we've ever invented contributes to degrading the planet and is therefore unsustainable. Some things do so faster than others. We could probably keep a much smaller population going with a low-tech lifestyle, at least for longer than the present arrangement, but we wouldn't have much in the way of health care, hygiene, communications, transport, infrastructure etc. (which would help to keep the population low, involuntarily!). <br /><br />I just think it's hard to know what to advocate for, if we have no idea what a sustainable and environmentally benign global civilisation would look like.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520380789913390909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-25018852072554709792016-05-24T20:29:35.897-05:002016-05-24T20:29:35.897-05:00"Meadows went to pains to say that the World-..."Meadows went to pains to say that the World-3 model made no attempt to predict what would occur once limits were exceeded. “At that point,” he said, “we are into unprecedented things.”<br />Indeed that is the cautious approach of a good scientist. Some of us however cannot help but ponder what the future has in store for us... <br />http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2015/10/21/that-was-then-this-is-now-so-whats-next/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09422616896663177357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-91255895040355231292015-04-17T05:56:35.170-05:002015-04-17T05:56:35.170-05:00Thx for the post!
I'd like to humbly suggest ...Thx for the post! <br />I'd like to humbly suggest 3 resources that have been indispensable & so empowering & strengthening to me in preparing for a New World that will be unlike that past, a New World we've already entered into some time ago. <br /><br />www.GreatWavesOfChange.org<br />www.StepsToKnowledge.com <br /><br />2 free ebooks to download from non profit publisher of visionary author with a new message for humanity for you to discern of internal preparation & external perspective for the uncertain times ahead.<br /><br />www.WhatAWayToGoMovie.com great for raising awareness of others of what we're facing (documentary covers a lot of it & pulls no to few punches in doing so).<br /><br />optional comment: <br />Consider for yourself, that the only permanent preparation in the face of this is within our hearts & minds (external prep can/may be undone in moments by nature) & that what informs a decision--inner guidance of Spirit/Knowledge or the intellect's guessing--determines the efficacy of that decision, especialy in facing the unprecedented in human history converging Great Waves of change now. Knowledge within you really knows where you need to go & who you need to meet, its your inner authority.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946015802788331978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-74829653484577190742014-06-19T01:03:57.920-05:002014-06-19T01:03:57.920-05:00Pingback: You were mentioned in Greer's most r...Pingback: You were mentioned in Greer's <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-stories-of-our-grandchildren.html" rel="nofollow">most recent post</a>.Averyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03097443949826910958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-77784553843631324612014-06-10T12:45:18.117-05:002014-06-10T12:45:18.117-05:00Population is the underlying theme of the Limits t...Population is the underlying theme of the Limits to Growth, and many speakers took a stab at it, although I neglected to report that. Orren surveyed everyone to get a sense of when the population will peak globally. Personally I'd go with 2045 give or take 10 years.<br /><br />As for the race between the Three Horsemen, I put my $2 on Finance as the first to cross the finish line. All horses contribute to the pace of the race, however.Albert Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-50466640557575812572014-06-10T11:28:30.359-05:002014-06-10T11:28:30.359-05:00Albert, thank you for the report from AOL. Althoug...Albert, thank you for the report from AOL. Although it might be sparsely attended, it is something that I and many others pay close attention to, whether or not we find the time to attend in person. Between your words and Dmitry's, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on the going's-on this year, and I'm grateful.<br /><br />Once again I find myself sorry I haven't made it to Four Corners, which sounds like a very cool place in and of itself.<br /><br />The time has come for less talk and more fingers in the dirt, it seems like to me, and I can't help admiring guys like you and Orren, who approach collapse the way I'd do it if I had my shit together. (Working on it, but not there yet.)<br /><br />It looks like a close race between Peak Oil and Climate Change as to which hits first and hardest. Plenty of Black Swans to fill a pond, no matter whose model we're tracking.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02757250545116691670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-2271083708614651432014-06-09T19:35:59.866-05:002014-06-09T19:35:59.866-05:00How about a presentation of the Ecological Science...How about a presentation of the Ecological Science of Human Population Dynamics/Overpopulation at the 2015 AoL Conference? This subject is generally denied by top rank professionals in all disciplines, inside and outside the communities of science. <br /><br />"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science." - Carl Sagan, 1934-1996<br /><br />Scientific misconduct takes many forms, including deliberate omissions that can be located within the unethical practices of cloaking scientific knowledge in silence by 'stonewalling' and collectively colluding to willfully deny extant, virtually irrefutable research. When it comes to acquiring the best available scientific knowledge of human population dynamics/overpopulation, it appears that many too many experts in leading professional societies and top rank scientists on high level panels inside and outside the scientific community are ceasing to function properly by ignoring and omitting findings of apparently unforeseen scientific research. They are refusing to speak out and, by so doing, failing to accept responsibilities and perform duties associated with their recognized professional expertise and public standing. Their silence is forsaking science and humanity as well as delaying the development of, and qualitatively "damaging the shared body of knowledge scientists are working to build". Such suppression cannot be construed as either ethical or somehow right because it anathematizes intellectual honesty, moral courage, the evolution of science and the gathering momentum required for making necessary behavioral changes while there is still time. <br /><br />“Speak out as if you were a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.” - St. Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380<br /><br />Steven Earl Salmony<br />AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, est. 2001<br />Chapel Hill, NC<br />http://www.panearth.org/Steve Salmonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14109791379488548923noreply@blogger.com