tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post1672210221006895227..comments2023-09-12T16:52:48.733+09:00Comments on Antisthenes' corollary*:: 'Peak oil': so what?Ἀντισθένηςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-37938250966651696922011-12-26T21:09:44.884+09:002011-12-26T21:09:44.884+09:00http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_fi...http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/book_files/pb4book.pdf<br /><br />spreading the word.F.http://thewordidarenotmention.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-50568553878318533222011-12-23T21:49:20.501+09:002011-12-23T21:49:20.501+09:00Most schooled people I have come across seem to la...Most schooled people I have come across seem to lack practical skills other than being reliable consumers. So when it comes to questions like education for the little hybrids, we have come to understand that showing them how to do things by themselves is perhaps the best we have to offer. Admittedly, we are late in the game in terms of knowing how to put things together ourselves, but at least we've got a direction. <br /><br />If that makes sense. <br /><br />As for structural collapse, we can only hope that continues happening in slow motion.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661426960326013304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-55924338424173249102011-12-23T08:55:15.264+09:002011-12-23T08:55:15.264+09:00Well, 'kamo', I can understand your profes...Well, 'kamo', I can understand your professional route, "a fair bit about quite a few things, but not a huge amount about any one thing": I was a philosophy-major, E.Asian studies minor. Too bad that when once being a generalist was considered a proper education, and a specialist narrow minded, was before our era. Unsure what I'll encourage my hybrid to do, as university is more expensive, less of a guarantee, and a more intellectually disillusioning experience than it was even when I entered over twenty years ago.<br /><br />"Voluntary carbon offset markets in the private sector": your take on that would be interesting!<br /><br />I have read "Collapse", and though I did not enjoy it as much as "Guns, Germs and Steel" it is not because of the truth of the thesis, but that the latter book had the more challenging thesis: all history you've learned was taught wrong. Not bad for an ornithologist. Of course that gave the academics reason to crow about their fiefs getting laid waste by his arguments. 'The reason the fights in academics are so vicious is because the stakes are so SMALL.'<br /><br />Chris, 'ethical oil', 'harmless child porn', and 'honest politicians' are doublespeak, of course. Fucking marketers have either never read '1984', never understood it, or understood it too well. I can believe any of these.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-26760027097556337582011-12-23T07:34:39.289+09:002011-12-23T07:34:39.289+09:00'Harmless child porn' There's a domain...'Harmless child porn' There's a domain name just waiting to be registered. If we repeat it enough times here we might be able to push this post to the top of the google rankings. I'm not checking, though.<br /><br />Interesting that you mention the Wright book/lectures, as when I was writing the little screed above I had in mind Jared Diamond's 'Collapse', which wikipedia tells me covers pretty similar ground.<br /><br />By training I'm a geographer, which means I know a fair bit about quite a few things, but not a huge amount about any one thing. That said, my masters thesis was on voluntary carbon offset markets in the private sector, so there's a bit of overlap.<br /><br />The journey from that to making animal noises at pre-teens to earn a living is, well actually it's probably only too predictable.<br /><br />Merry Christmas all.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-88822655974443927292011-12-22T20:48:51.496+09:002011-12-22T20:48:51.496+09:00Someone who has studied it more put it well: "...Someone who has studied it more put it well: "Civilization is a Pyramid Scheme".<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Progress<br /><br />In the end any scheme where you take out more than you put it, or than can naturally replace, is doomed. That is where we are; where the 'Fertile Crescent' was; Rome...<br /><br />Curious about your area.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-54140449322451572222011-12-21T10:20:26.415+09:002011-12-21T10:20:26.415+09:00This is pretty much my area, and one of the reason...This is pretty much my area, and one of the reasons I really despair for us as a species. So many of the people I've studied/trained/worked with who'd describe themselves as 'environmentalists' miss the point completely. In and of themselves, I couldn't give less of a shit about gorillas and the like, but they are fairly obvious pit canaries.<br /><br />"- our near extinction, from any of many human threats, from war to disease"<br /><br />The way human society(ies) have set themselves up is very, very recent. And they've been set up during a relatively brief period of relatively stable climate. Climate change isn't just a problem because it will screw up ecosystems (though it is and it will) but because it will really, really fuck up all the human systems we've come to rely on. And of course the poorest will get it in the neck first.<br /><br />Lomborg and the Copenhage Consensus caught a huge amount of flak from most environmental groups, some of it deserved, but their focus on human systems is entirely correct.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensuskamohttp://fightstart.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-76258963023393471752011-12-20T10:26:10.238+09:002011-12-20T10:26:10.238+09:00Something is deeply wrong with Anglophone countrie...Something is deeply wrong with Anglophone countries, our dependence on the car and 'empty calories', and our deep denial of how that is wrecking our cities and towns, waistlines and insulin levels. I could continue about expecting tax cuts but no reduction in services...Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-70685937144206976432011-12-20T08:00:59.303+09:002011-12-20T08:00:59.303+09:00So many people in Australia complain about the pri...So many people in Australia complain about the price of petrol and now the cost of car registration has gone up. Sucked in. Keep raising the prices until people have to stop and think about if they really need to get in the car and drive half a km to the stop to buy a block of chocolate.kathrynhttp://www.project-kathryn.comnoreply@blogger.com