Thinking Anew – Part 21 – What If? Using consciousness to get the world we want – Part 2 – evolution revisited  

One of humanity’s greatest problems, and the one that has led us to creating the massive ecological crisis we now face, is the hubris in believing that we are the most intelligent species on the planet.  Humans are definitely smart, no doubt about that, but with intelligence comes wisdom, and Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 2 – a reality check on food production energetics.

In the previous post I talked about the 10% rule of energetics within the food chain. The potentially most efficient way to eat is to consume the vegetables directly so that we get 10% of the vegetables energy.  Eating an animal that ate the vegetable only gives us 1% of Read more…

Economics and Energetics of farming 1 – a reality check on the food system.

“The primary mode of cognition that the practitioners of science have used during the past century – Analytic, Linear, Reductionist, Deterministic, Mechanical – has begun to reach the limits of its assumptions.  For this particular mode of cognition and the system to which that mode has given rise, can only Read more…