Pissed off at your kids giving a damn? EROI of energy available to do work peaked in 1920’s burning 100million years worth of stored solar energy in 200 odd years is frying the planet, and the oceans Consumption based overpopulation means humans are using the biosphere at an unsustainable rate and outcompeting other species leadingContinue reading “Ask the people 2”
Author Archives: railwayst
Life
straight to the pointy end, life is planetary. The millennial aims to consume it, and replace the real with a digital representation, Which reality is within our grasp. We’ve talked about value, of the mercentalisation of everything. Use the biotope to create waste to destroy habitat and ecology, in the hope of more success. DiscussionsContinue reading “Life”
Legrange
We ought then to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and as the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective situation of the beings who composeContinue reading “Legrange”
Innspill
God dag Dette er et spennende tema og det kunne har vært enda mer spennende om utvalget tok opp temaer rundt hvordan et nullutslippsamfunn kommer til å se ut. Dette er et av hovedmålene for staten Norge men det er lite snakk om hva salgs omstillinger som må skje for å komme dit hen. ManContinue reading “Innspill”
Efficiency
Privatisation of the means of producing capital is a tenet of capitalism, private owners make decisions based on higher profits, business growth, and market share i.e. returns to shareholders. There is nothing inherently efficient about that other than that the decision making criteria rarely takes into account, let alone compensates for, the resources, energy andContinue reading “Efficiency”
Enlighten
It is really worthwhile to look at the first and second laws of thermodynamics and whether one should consider the biophysical reality of entropy in the context of economic growth. But, generally speaking, economic growth is a human construct that uses the theory of infinite substitutability to deny any Liebig type limit. Not only that,Continue reading “Enlighten”
Data
i googled something i shoudnt have will google come get me, even if i dont hit enter?
Never buy back your soul
Being afraid that one is not explicit enough So, the Basel mode main purpose being to demonstrate how and why discourse analysis can never satisfy the scientific approach. I say He say We say You say We all talk Over And over And over And over again You won’t believe you’re on the eve ofContinue reading “Never buy back your soul”
Morals
Humans invented anthropogenic moralism in order to establish a framework for interacting with each other and with the rest of the planet. This is why we have a moral diversity, because nature is diverse and humans are products of this. Moralism has however, become largely anthropomorphic and in my opinion this is the greatest moralContinue reading “Morals”
Value III
I am not so sure Sonny, most business models disregard the energetic input available to reproduce cyberspace and consumption. Advertising simply uses natural resources to promote the further use of natural resources. If natural resources are limited, and I can assure you they are, then the business model actually has no social or environmental value.Continue reading “Value III”
