9/3/06Â
Eric & all,
David’s sense of urgency is becoming more widespread, and I certainly think both quite rational and important, but still missing the required change in target.  We need to avoid multiplying the failure the last 50 years of environmentalism has produced.   It’s not wrong.  It just didn’t work.  To keep what I’m saying both clear and accurate, […]
9/1/06
Eric & all,
The way I look at it, the old idea of population climax was based on the expectation that as people gained competence they’d act in their own interests.  It’s failing because large communities of people didn’t gain competence.  The last 4 trillion in foreign development aid (1) essentially didn’t work.   Putting it in as cartoonish […]
9/1/06
Eric & all,
It’s good to feel one’s way along, with new things particularly.   The modern world sort of requires that you get rid of that old fashioned idea though…   People end up acting in bigger and bigger ways, not looking at the effects.  One of the things that I like most about Eric’s observations is that […]
9/13/06
Damian,
Not sure if this will get to you.  I’m an American, so some of what you had to say about the European philosophy of complexity went right over my head.  In my philosophy of knowledge the fact that I’m “out of the loop” with regard to some of the things you were saying, is both […]
9/9/06
Steve,
Yea! you’re absolutely right on the whole thing, except why it is that nature has so profoundly tricked the whole species into an aggressive plan for self-destruction. It’s beyond awesome. Apparently humans ARE that stupid, but I don’t believe nature is that mean. I can’t help but notice how fucking pregnant we are!
I think the […]
9/5/06
Stan
> Phil –
> >Stan,
> >> Phil - Replying (to your kind remarks)
> >>
> >> >Stan,
> >> >Would you say that opportunity is the principal cause
> >> >of causal
> >> >loops?, and so the principal interest of an internalist
> >> >perspective, whereas
> >> >opportunity is largely invisible to an externalist
> >> >perspective and so usually ignored?
> […]
Stan,
Yes. He replied with a compliment and then today sent out the emails of 20 people who responded imaginatively to that article on him. I’ll let you know if anything develops.
Phil Henshaw
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Stan wrote:
Phil — I concur with you completely. Is this Pianka, Eric Pianka the ecologist?
STAN
Phil wrote:
>Dr. Pianka, A friend sent me a notice on your […]
8/27/06
Stan
> Phil –
> >Stan,
> >> Phil –
> >> >Stan,
…..
> >> >PH: Or… accumulating and then pealing off in sheets like the
> >> >community bulletin boards on campus.
> >>The pealing off would obviate the information overload. No.
> >
> >Well, except for the bales of urgent notices that never got
> >pinned up
> >in the first place, just […]
8/27/06
Aleks,
> phil henshaw wrote:
> > Does it matter if the next great depression
> > knocks out 50% of all value for 50 years
> > instead of just 20% for 10?
> It depends on how revolutionary you are.
> If you want this monetary conception of
> the world to go away for good, you’d prefer
> a really […]
9/9/06
Kitty,
From my view there are lots of things you could point out to him. He probably understands that there’s a limit to any one thing. You can also have too much of any ‘good’ thing. An endless explosion of ‘good’ is the most sure way of getting you there. Everything begins with growth, but things […]