🌍 Scenario A: Status Quo (Minimal Transition) Assumptions: Continued reliance on fossil fuels. Incremental renewable adoption, but no systemic shift. Military and geopolitical spending remains dominant. Resource extraction continues at current or increasing rates. Timeline: 10 Years (2035) Global emissions still rising or plateauing. Critical minerals (e.g. lithium, cobalt) under severe supply pressure. Climate tipping points… Continue reading Interesting times
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Holistics
🧭 The Infrastructure Paradox and the Final Energy Window: A Public Briefing Til: Energi- og miljøkomiteen, Stortinget Fra: Uavhengig energianalyse 🌍 The Situation We are living in a unique and vanishing moment in human history — the only time we will ever have the energy, materials, and technological capacity to build the infrastructure needed for a sustainable future. This… Continue reading Holistics
A quick chat
You: Is the military-industrial complex driven purely by profit, irrational resource consumption, and flawed economic science? Me: It seems that way—short-term financial interests often override long-term sustainability. But are there forces capable of shifting the paradigm? You: Not really. As long as those who benefit from destruction control production, rational change seems unlikely. Me: Yet… Continue reading A quick chat
Resilience
One could argue that resilience is evolutionary but survival of the fittest is not really a political preferance in the modern social concept excepting perhaps a natural willingness towards competition. The democratic majority prefer negotiation to genocide, wellness over starvation, care over neglect. ESG is simply a way of expressing modern human desires into the… Continue reading Resilience
Convo nr.4
Confirming the obvious You Meagtrends threatening infinite growth HSE4.0 AI Assistant To offer a thorough analysis of the megatrends threatening infinite growth, it's crucial to first understand that "infinite growth" is a theoretical concept that isn't sustainable in a finite world with limited resources. Here are some major megatrends that challenge the notion of infinite growth:… Continue reading Convo nr.4
Lie of growth
Ask the string how long it is, not very, eternal. Even to add an infinite amount would not change over much. The challenge of infinite growth, on a infinitely finite plane, corruption of ideas.
Simples
Everything in the economy is created by fossil energy, as the supply dwindles the demand to consume pushes up the price, of everything. The demand to consume is a part of the dominant paradigm, which feeds on the illusion that all natural resources are free and infinitely substitutable. This is patently nonsensical but it has… Continue reading Simples
Illusion
The real trick is to maintain the illusion that there is a left or a right and that there is a democratic choice to be made between ideological standpoints. In truth whether one chooses to support a system bias based on social or individual primacy the system itself does not change. The problems with the… Continue reading Illusion
Asset inflation
Asset inflation has recently been repeated all over the world since the US Fed and other banks started printing money in 2008-9, nor is this a new problem but rather inherent to the private property paradigm. The simple truth within the paradigm is that policies with significant social or environmental value will not be supported… Continue reading Asset inflation
Does everybody know?
Everybody knows the scene is deadBut there's gonna be a meter on your bedThat will discloseWhat everybody knows We can see it coming, feel it working, approve our genius in harnessing it to do work, especially now as the cold northern winter or the (increasingly) warm southern summer approaches. In our general theory of evolution,… Continue reading Does everybody know?
