Many scholars support the idea that all we need to do to solve the world’s problems is to reform what we currently do and just promote more laws and regulations to curb humanity’s worse tendencies. As a broad generalization, many reformers perceive that humans will only behave sustainably if they Read more…
Main future view categories (numbers in parentheses are percentages for each category – 25 years and 100 years, with question three overviews in the narrative within each question). 1. No real change over 25 years (or even 100 years?) (0%/7%). An intriguing category because these people recognize that environmental changes Read more…
“The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we’re not thinking about future generations in the way we live.” Erik Erikson In my academic past-life I was doing some research on how people perceive the future might be. My logic was that based on a Read more…
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare BioDiversity is known to be a complete interaction of all the species in an ecosystem. Modern science accepts that an ecosystem is a complete and interactive and dynamic collection of species (from the micro to especially the micro levels, which we Read more…
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammad Ali Recently I received the Comment: “You actually make it seem really easy along with your presentation however I find this topic to be actually something that I feel I would by Read more…
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the ad handle because it was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” Anon There seem to be three main areas of geoengineering: 1) modern accepted techniques – Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal Read more…
Let’s face it, we all like food. It has been the primary human occupation throughout humanities history. It is the primary drive for all of nature. Yet how many of us in the MDCs could actually find food if it wasn’t neatly packaged in a grocery store? Once we were Read more…
Over the years, during lectures and many talks I have given, one question that always comes up is could we actually make the transition to sustainability or is it just a pipe-dream. Obviously the question usually comes from people who think a sustainable future is some half-life of a harsh Read more…
About a week ago I posted on Facebook a cartoon from ‘Collectively Conscious.’ In it a young boy asks his mother, “Why do we have wars?” The mother answers, “Because we are ruled by an elite group of psychopaths who own the banks that control the government and the media. Read more…
We like to blame the dumbing down of society to the electronic joy we are now inundated with in our lives. While this is somewhat true, it is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history, the people who controlled the information controlled the people. This is not conspiracy, it is simply Read more…
A caring, sharing, collaborative world “Our civilized culture is failing us. And to change things we have to start with our children, showing them the importance of love and kindness, of faith and hope, of compassion and non-violence, treating each other with dignity and respect, not as bodies to be Read more…
POPULATION, ECONOMICS, CHOICE and MORALITY I didn’t get to complete my thoughts on this in the last post because of a keyboard problem. Countries that have invested in female education and family planning have demonstrated major drops in total fertility rates. Regardless of which counties are used as comparisons (e.g. Read more…
I decided to subtitle this post a world of possibilities. There are many options for us and many are more desirable than what we currently have. I didn’t say probabilities, which are more likely occurrences, because to get to probabilities we have to have more firm intention of what we Read more…
What makes the Leaver worldview unique is that it is completely community oriented. Our current westernized culture thrives on competition, individualism, and reliance on authority to solve problems. I need to be careful here – I am NOT condoning some Ayn Rand way of looking at the world, that is Read more…
Like most technology of the last 70 years, we start with what sounds like a great idea and then rush it to mass production without any real consideration of long-term consequences. Then when consequences arise (as they always seem to do) we find that big money, scientists funded by them, Read more…
Many years ago, I attended a weekly, evening, continuing education course about Creative Writing. The instructor as you might guess focused on creativity and its expression. During one class discussion we had to think of a subject on which to write about things to do at a Caribbean resort. There Read more…
Jared Diamond writes in his book The World until Yesterday about how indigenous peoples lived for most of human existence in tribal societies. He doesn’t paint a utopia, yet explains why the tribal system worked overall. Relatively recently in human history we moved from hunter-gatherer tribal systems into farming communities Read more…
It is estimated that 90% of people intensely dislike the working week, which is a product of efficiency for the industrial revolution and machine system of living. So, 10% of people have a living that is ideal for them. They could work 15 hours a day and still love what Read more…
If we are to move towards a sustainable world, we most certainly will have to find ways to live more harmoniously with each other. We will not have to become saints to live together, but we will have to find respect for all our differences, and compassion will have to Read more…
Business, just like money, is a tool that can be helpful or otherwise. The reason it holds so much power over us is because it gives us luxuries and comforts that most of us find desirable. The level to which these desires have become addictive, however, is a product of Read more…
As an older person, I have seen technology come from the analog radio, television, and corded land-line telephone to the digital wonders we have today. One of the most intriguing for me is the loss of printed word to the internet revolution. We now all have at our fingertips nearly Read more…
In the late 1970s I recall watching a BBC science show that showed at least four main different hydrogen fuel options. The researchers were all from the big engineering universities like MIT, CALTECH, and Oxford, so we’re not talking garage inventors. The different options were clearly discussed and demonstrated on Read more…
“Remember, everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong” Ernest Hemingway. In the film ‘The Matrix’ The hero Neo takes the red pill and awakens from his illusion of the consumer lifestyle to find himself in a dystopian ruined world run by artificial intelligence. He is the Read more…