This is a slightly edited version of my comment on Andy Revkin’s NY Times Dot Earth blog, on “Rationalization masquerades as reason”
The odd rationalization of them all is that what we ask the economy to do by spending money has no environmental impact… if we don’t see it. It’s illogical, but is actually how […]
I commented on a Brian Lehrer radio show conversation yesterday with Francis Fukuyama, on his incisive views of the history of human culture and his new book The origins of political order. You may recall Fukuyama’s previous book from 2006,”The end of History”, which caused some stir though history continued in any case.
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Responding to John McCreery’s recent comment on Open Anthropology - Arguing From Limits (also quoted below mine here) discussing the hazard of raising doubt about people’s faith in using efficiency to reduce environmental impacts, as I had called it “a mirage”. The problem is that the visible energy uses people focus attention on are much […]
Our oil addiction, like all addictions, became a physical trap. It’s one of needing to consume ever more of the affordable supplies that are running out with pollution effects that will permanently disrupt the earth’s climate, to achieve an evidently false image of economic ’stability”. It’s a common natural signal for growth systems, that points […]
Deep ecology is a natural philosophy that recognizes the nature and its parts as living systems that have their own worth, independent of the services they provide for humans. It was named by and perhaps best described in the work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss. As a practical approach to life it involves systems thinking, […]
Two posts to the WNYC “What happens after Revolution” page.
– 2/4/11 Use natural systems science….
I’m a scientist who studies the revolutions in natural systems that nature uses to create everything, how a “calm before a storm” becomes a “viral event” that then “graduates” from one level of organization to another… “disrupting and remaking” its environmental […]
Brian Lehrer on WNYC radio asked that question “What happens after the revolution?” to discuss the experience of people that might apply to the amazing events in Egypt and the Arab world, and what follows.
I’m a scientist who studies the revolutions in natural systems that nature uses to create everything, how a “calm before a […]
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The ideal investment …. for people think of investment only for the money is one that assures that putting money in will let you take more out, and let you add that gain to your investments over and over and over. One can only imagine that to be sustainable, though, […]
One of the constant threads of my work from the start has been the curious gaps between the world our minds present to us as a whole, and the one nature builds for us to *work* as a whole (using a considerably more complete deck of cards, you might say)… Here’s a good […]
a little “Evo-Devo” insight for the study of natural systems, and ourselves, based on the new physics of development in natural systems.
In a phrase: Life begins when internal growth approaches an end, revealing your presence in a new environment… where making relationships rather than consuming your partners is more profitable.
From a simple mechanical behavior sense, […]