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La problematique; the whole mess
Wed, 2015-09-30 05:51
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La problematique; the whole mess
Wed, 2015-09-30 05:57
#2
Monbiot: There may be flowing water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?
Wed, 2015-09-30 06:39
#3
Problématique is feminine.
Wed, 2015-09-30 16:26
#4
Problématique is feminine.
Sorry about that, it was careless of me. Perhaps the mods could correct the title.
Wed, 2015-09-30 17:39
#5
Well, they corrected the definite article, but the é is still absent. Half a loaf can assuage even a hearty appetite, though.
Now back to the topic at hand.
What's wrong with smartphones for dogs?
Fri, 2015-10-16 16:36
#6
The Limits to Growth -
Its demonization:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3551
A recent assessment - it was right:
Wed, 2016-03-23 17:07
#7
Videos: Bill Rees on the human future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9cDA-R4J8
8 videos of 7+ minutes each. He doesn't hold much back except for the upbeat ending.
Thu, 2016-04-07 20:51
#8
Jean-Marc Jancovici on energy and the economy. Video in French, with English text. Style very French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_GNIa2joE
Prices will respond to the periodic fluctuations of supply and demand, as we see now, when several countries including China are in economic difficulties just when a cycle of investment has enhanced extraction facilities.
More could be said on mineral resources, for example this article by Douglas Reynolds:
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/reynolds/mineraleconomy.htm
The website contains much other valuable material:
Several recent books by Kenneth Deffeyes, for example "Hubbert's Peak" are useful, see
A review article from a few years back is still pertinent; thanks to Bill Hulet for keeping it up:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~whulet/OGN/Vol1Issue1/Doug_Woodard.htm
Fri, 2016-09-30 00:31
#9
A Geomoment of Affluence Between Two Austere Eras:
http://npg.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-Geomoment-Forum-Paperrev0...
Mon, 2016-10-03 11:00
#10
Thanks for this! But there are so many commonly held assumptions here I must challenge, which are tied to the fundamental flaws of the perspective of the Greens movement...I only wish I have the time to do this justice, sometime.....but I question the idea that it is exhaustion of the resource that determines...rather it is the collapsing economomics and finances, a capitalist system that is bankrupting the capacity of people to exhaust the resource!
One only need look at the collapsing Dry Baltic Trade Indext to understand this!
So the Greens focus on the fossil fuels..carbon taxes ad nauseum...when they should be looking more holistically at the nature and culture of Society, its centralization, globalization, finacialization!
So what is desperately needed is a transformation of the Green movement to something more holistic.......desperately needed!!
Tue, 2016-10-11 02:28
#11
The world got cannier at using energy last year:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iea-energy-efficiency-idUSKCN12A0OM
Sun, 2016-10-23 08:17
#12
The rising cost of resources and global indicators of change:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2015/6/the-rising-cost-o...
Sun, 2016-10-30 06:53
#13
A living planet or population growth:
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2988272/a_li...
Sun, 2016-10-30 11:53
#14
The solutions: education, poverty reduction, reproductive health??
...what´s missing in this analysis is the fact that some people consume hundreds of thousands more resources than others......dependent on capital intensive shelters, processed foods, transport of goods, use of transport, need for transport etc.
...what´s missing is that some societies rely on highly concentrated centralized systems of production, distribution and control...to leave all this out is outrageous!
Thu, 2016-11-10 12:16
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The solutions: education, poverty reduction, reproductive health??
...what´s missing in this analysis is the fact that some people consume hundreds of thousands more resources than others......dependent on capital intensive shelters, processed foods, transport of goods, use of transport, need for transport etc.
...what´s missing is that some societies rely on highly concentrated centralized systems of production, distribution and control...to leave all this out is outrageous!
iyraste, you might remember that people don't vary nearly as much in the amount of food they eat as in other forms of consumption. Food translates into land. And we need the rest of the community of life on earth for our survival, among other things. It depends on land.
Further, while an equitable division of resources would be nice, survival has a higher priority.
Thu, 2016-11-10 12:18
#16
Peak Civilization: The Fall of the Roman Empire, and analogies:
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5528
Thu, 2016-12-29 06:53
#17
Are Humans Unsustainable by Nature? by William E. Rees:
http://www.plancanada.com/Unsustainable%20by%20Nature.rees.pdf
Mon, 2017-01-02 10:19
#18
The 100 percent renewable energy future: the good news and the bad news:
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-01-01/the-100-percent-renewable-e...
Wed, 2017-02-08 12:02
#19
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in a Climate-Changed, Crisis-Ridden World, by Bill Barnes;
a review of Erik Wright's "Envisioning Real Utopias":
http://crookedtimber.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CrookedTimberRealUto...
Wed, 2017-02-15 17:58
#20
Overcoming societal addictions: What can we learn from individual therapies?
by Robert Costanza and others
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308958235_Overcoming_societal_a...
Tue, 2017-05-09 19:57
#21
The Human Ecological Predicament: Wages of Self-Delusion:
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/human-eco-predicament/
By implication, Rees rejects:
1. Classical capitalism, with its appetite for endless growth and its rejection of collective control.
2. Classical socialism (especially its "Marxist" form) with its espousal of abundance through industry, its rejection of limits to human numbers and activity, and its view of nature as merely raw material for an independant human enterprise.
Can there be a socialism which accepts limits? What would it entail?
Tue, 2017-08-01 03:37
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Tue, 2017-08-15 03:47
#23
Bill Rees: Staving off the coming global collapse:
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/07/17/Coming-Global-Collapse/