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Monthly Archives: April 2020
We can be Jongleurs de Joy, or Prophets of Doom.
Supressing the tragedy and enjoying the comedy, seems a profitable course. Remember that reality – the plot – is the same for both. Taking the tragic road to the light on the other side is the same as taking the … Continue reading
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A Very Short but Tangled Tragi-comic Plot
Each month will contain ecologic/economic meaning. For us – for developed economies – all of which are agricultures, or dependent on agricultures – that meaning will contain a large thought-stifling smog of tragedy. We think we cannot do what is … Continue reading
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Dog and Stick
How do we extract crops, while maintaining future yields? – By cycles of use and return, but also by introducing generative phases in rotation. Perennial cropping of fruit and nut trees and bushes is useful and perennial cereal prairies as … Continue reading
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Our Habitation
How do we re-settle? By trial & error. But here are some thoughts. Every habitation must begin with some sort of understanding and some sort of a plan. . Potatoes contain about 80% water Carrots contain 90% Cereals contain 15% … Continue reading
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Lifeboats and Landfall
Developed economies are intrinsically destructive and because of their size they cannot be greened. They embody a destructive way of life. Our only choice is to evacuate that economy and to live a different way of life. . De-growing what … Continue reading
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Economy? Ecology? – One and Indivisible
The biomass of Earth is shrinking. It is also weakening. Its immune responses are more and more often overwhelmed by lifeless energy – heat, flood, fire, chainsaw… Lifelessness replaces life – accelerating at tipping points for species after species – … Continue reading
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Bio-mass, Speed and Acceleration
Yes, as we saw in the last chapter – pursuit of career, kills pursuit of truth. To pursue truth, we must step into wind, sunshine and rain – to which I may add, into famine, flood and storm. . Even … Continue reading
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Being, Nothingness, Cumquats and Walter Scott
So, it comes down to this. The answer to these crazy times, is to evacuate & de-spend the enclosures and to inhabit and re-spend the skill, ingenuity, sensuality (intelligence gathering) and moral probity of the common. . Enclosure desensitises intelligence … Continue reading
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Fire
FIRE It comes down to this, contrary to modernity’s dream, “Science” will not save us. The data on CO.2 , temperature, sea level and so on, is plain – as is the cause – modernity’s way of life. My life … Continue reading
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The Doughnut Without Collapse is a Pipe Dream
Please don’t waste time lobbying governments, or corporations to think about doughnut economics, or a steady-state economy. If you do, you ask them to destroy themselves. It’s futile. . Instead withdraw consent to their ideology. Withdraw spending from Tesco, Amazon … Continue reading
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