tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151229136087998997.post842547184524384689..comments2023-10-29T08:43:27.262-05:00Comments on OMNI's War and Warming Anthologies: Global Warming and 350 PPMaubuniquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281865213176006571noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151229136087998997.post-11332897232904806702014-06-23T01:34:10.634-05:002014-06-23T01:34:10.634-05:00It is this empirical observation I now see has bee...It is this empirical observation I now see has been unfolding, that informs me we simply bit off more than we could chew, and the measures we really need to take as a species to admit what we caused, that is now escalating at ever increasing rates, the rapid decline of every living system on the planet, short of a complete power down of economic machinery that has no throttle, from extraction, throughput processes to distribution, then end-use output waste-sink pollution, has become far too little, an far too late by decades.<br /><br />Where even now, Congress had done little or nothing to prevent, or soften that hard landing to come, that will affect us all in many different ways of a mass human extinction event headed our way as inevitable in my professional judgement.<br /><br />I am being realistic given the human response to what our science has been telling us for at least as long as I have been measuring it since I graduated fro high school in 1969.<br /><br />It was over in 1992 at Kyoto when HW Bush said he would not sacrifice the American way of life to save the planet.<br /><br />Bush 41' didn't realize just how prophetic his words actually were to become the ironic truth of what will come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151229136087998997.post-9225930726574007712014-06-23T01:12:58.123-05:002014-06-23T01:12:58.123-05:00I am in Professor Paul Erlach's camp(Stanford ...I am in Professor Paul Erlach's camp(Stanford U.) even though my Alma Mater is the University of California Irvine, and University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, that civilization will inevitably collapse.<br /><br />And the reasons are far too many to list here, but the last paragraph is in a nutshell part of it, because in my mind what we need to do is stop the machinery altogether and begin a new way of living that is to scale, what we nee to let the planet heal, but the sheer magnitude of our inability to adapt psycho-socially to the reality of remedy to what is required to save the biosphere from collapsing we are not capable with by self-evident reasons on a socio-cultural basis to begin with.<br /><br />Heck, you can't even get a city council to come to a consensus these days on coming up with solutions that don't ultimately have destructive ens to the ecology of our environment.<br /><br />Couple that with the most scientifically illiterate population in western civilization, having been dumbed down by educational policies which began early in the 20th century in Congress, as to whether we would educate our students to build citizenship, character and informed critically thinking population, was instead given to those who control the economy by the corporate titans of american industry.<br /><br />There influence overshadowed John Dewey from the University of Michigan who lobbied for a curriculum which focused on citizenship, character and how to think, and not what to think rote learning to satisfy the skill set needs for entering the workforce as mere cogs in the wheel, and not for the self-actualization of our own humanity to express ourselves in creating our own role and identity in life as a free and open democratic society, to build a journey of learning an discovery through life to raise the enlightenment of our intellectual, emotional and spiritual adult maturity upon which the society we build is represented by that which we give back.<br /><br />Instead, upon graduation from high school,we had the manipulative and cognitive skills to enter the industries of America, coupled to public relations mass communications from Wall Street and Madison Avenue to convince us we won't ever be happy unless we buy things we largely don't need, with money we don't have, as a complete farse.<br /><br />When it finally crashes you better hope what evolutionary DNA which helped us to become hunters and gathers are still there, versus what so many of us have become today where how could we ever survive without an SUV and a supermarket and Walmart?<br /><br />Some of us know how to hunt and fish and permaculture our way to resilient transition communities, that are popping up all around the world, and it is to these who have the vision and foresight to know whats coming who have the best chance for survival.<br /><br />Great seminal book by William Catton Jr, although dated from 1982 is as relevant today as it was when I first read it in 1984, "Overshoot: The Ecological Basis for Revolutionary Change".<br /><br />Carrying capacity among many reasons is another major factor we bit off more than we could chew for 7 billion.<br /><br />population of American's who unfortunately were raised in a public education system where Dewey lost his cause to help students on how to think, instead of what to think in order to serve the interests of an economic corporate model of socialism for the rich and corporate investors, and neoliberal capitalism for the rest of us.<br /><br />A system based on a model of economic growth into perpetuity on a finite planet, coupled by, burning a candle at the other end, that requires unsustainable credit and debt expansion, where the mass population of consumers who occupy middle-class America, can no longer support, all of which is destroying the very systems that make life possible, can't be a death wish built into our DNA id it?<br /><br />Whereas the only reason our system in America has not crashed already is by manipulation of the FED, and the money being invested by the 1% and other banking interests to artificially prop up the NY SE that otherwise would crash.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com