The problem with “going to the edge” in nature is she keeps moving the edge, back and forth. It’s a trap. Having a practice of always maximizing your take and going to the limit leaves you vulnerable to natures perennial habit of leading you on when she moves it out, unaware that […]
A post to Wild Resiliency on The Seven Keystone Processes - adding that thought is an ecological experiment too.
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I liked the statement at the top, that “we too easily believe ourselves to be the center of the universe and the measure of the world”. How we somehow manage to conjure up the […]
The now 10 year global price spiral in natural resource markets, as if a global resource financial bubble, is also just what you’d expect from resource markets pushed to produce growing supples until they meet stiffening resistance from nature, the long expected “big crunch” at the end of accelerating toward the limit of depleting affordable […]
This is a response to Graeme Rickard’s post to the Australian environmental network GreenLeap, discussing why the dimensions of the environmental problem seem increasingly unsolvable.
Graeme’s post on Apr 27 raises the critical issue, that if you follow the energy dilemma to its logical conclusions it provides solid evidence that the problem is our whole model, […]
In Finance Professor Earns “King’s” Ransom, John Fullerton of the Capital Institute asks what gives, when a professor acting as an expert witness is paid $1 million dollars in the financial fraud trial of Raj “King”. It looks to me that he was paid to say the information, that Raj would certainly […]
My post on new thinking on the Complexity Economics suggested by the need for better conceptual models for reading economic data discussed at the INET - Bretton Woods conference, was also generously reposted on The Capital Institute Blog. This is to add to that what Soros said about economic complexity in the opening session of […]
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 […]
Reposted as a guest blog entry at the Capital Institute
The recent INET meeting at Bretton Woods organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) with support from people like George Soros, brought together a large group of leading creative economists and ecological systems scientists, to push the envelope in discussing how to reorganize the […]
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 […]