Trying to eat my way out of life
I accidentally die
Fortunaely someone else is alive
To consume my ration
Until there is no more left
At which point
Everything dies
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26
Jul
17
Myth 1
Renewables are renewable using renewable energy
Only by doing several (presumably fatal) experiments is it possible to know what will break the back of a camel.
Is it doubtful, based on the laws of physics, whether a battery or any other renewable source can be made without a surplus supply of energy.
Economics tells us we can increase our GDP simply by increasing our material wealth utilising such methods as increasing the debt coefficient inherent in the cost of housing, by increasing the velocity of money or by using concentrated solar energy to capture diffuse energy by the means of other physical infrastructure such as ‘renewables’.
This growth in GDP does not mean the GDP fueled economy is energetically sustainable and in fact, logically, it points in the other direction. From a purely economic view, things tend to get more expensive as scarcity increases.
From an energetic viewpoint, using the stored solar energy of a few hundred million years, to create a storage system, with hugely negative environmental side effects, that lasts for 15-20 years is the height of folly.
A focus on maintenance rather than growth would quickly disabuse the market of the ‘renewable based on an Infiniti supply’ myth.
The myth of the energetically sustaible economy is popular and strong because it tells us everything will remain the same, only better.
Which is of course what we want to hear, imagine someone telling you that half of the worlds stored energy had been used to create an infrastructure, with a 50-70 year lifespan totally dependent on being recreated by the half we have already used.
Next time you ride under that freeway, wonder how it will be recreated in 30 years or so, from a a solar panel that wore out 10 years ago
23
Jun
17
In the event of war
Whither Iran, Syria or Russia retaliate against an US aircraft, or US support positions on the ground.
In the event that the US loses a single aircraft, or loses one member of its combat team to hands of a Syrian or Russian military asset, then Washington will no doubt seize on this event as an “act of aggression,” initiate its media machine to begin consensus-building internationally, ramping-up military operations on par with Iraq in 2003.
Selling ever more guns.
Globalresearch.ca
20
Jun
17
Archilochus
O heart, my heart, no public leaping when you win;
no solitude nor weeping when you fail to prove.
Rejoice at simple things;
and be but vexed by sin and evil slightly.
Know the tides through which we move.
Jealousy has no power over me;
nor do I envy a god his work;
and I do not burn to rule.
Such things have no:
Fascination for my eyes.
28
Apr
17
Blah again
Let us argue with fact since my truth cannot be yours
First world society is absolutely dependent on a limited supply of liquid fuel
just in time is the very definition of unsustainable once it reaches a Liebig limit
your facts assume this doesn’t matter
21
Apr
17
Dum things
We are indispensable to each other.
And not enough with that:
completely dependent.
Imagine, surviving the long winter, even when it is 20 below
By taking turns to be cold
11
Apr
17
Come you masters of war
Ah, a learned man, to paraphrase the “Thucydides trap” in postmodernist terms:
‘What makes modern war inevitable is the commercial interest in war’
The military industrial complex is what has caused the conflagration that is the “Arab Spring”‘, a trap well sprung indeed.
What would peace profit the masters of war!
which is of course why bob should’ve won the peace prize and not the literature prize, except of course that no one took him literally
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/mastersofwar.html
