Sustainable Growth is a world class oxymoron. A “Sustainable Growth” is an insult to the intelligence of those that possess this rare quality. An impossible theorem. This is the first part of a 50 days long, tearing to shreds of the absurdity that sustainable growth is the future of humanity, series on TheTrimTab. We start with a conversation... Click Here to Continue Reading

The human brain is a physical mechanism for storing, retrieving, and re-storing again, each special-case experience. The experience is often a packaged concept. Such packages consist of complexedly interrelated and not as-yet differentially analyzed phenomena which, as initially unit cognitions, are potentially re-experience-able. A rose, for instance,... Click Here to Continue Reading

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” Boy, no pressure there. But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being... Click Here to Continue Reading

Let’s put some numbers together: If Peter from GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations ) is correct, a 200 miles square collects sufficient solar energy to power ALL human activity. Let’s assume that: 1-    Distribution is not a problem. (either the grid does it, or better, the equipment is locally installed…... Click Here to Continue Reading

Crash Course – 18 – Environmental Data In Crash Course Chapter 18: The Environment, Chris Martenson explains how multiple essential resources are being depleted at ever faster rates. Our money system requires continual economic growth, but energy depletion will run headlong into dwindling resource returns to limit future growth options.... Click Here to Continue Reading

In the early 70s, I was around 10 years old; a school project was to draw the world as we expected it to be in year 2000. Of course, kids expectations are usually more wishes than expectations; kids don’t really know the difference do they? And if they do, they are “just kids”, right? Back then, year 2000 was an eternity away, so... Click Here to Continue Reading

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock · Publisher: Basic Books · Pub. Date: April 13, 2009 · ISBN-13: 9780465015498 Synopsis A preeminent environmental scientist contends that it’s too late to reverse global warming—and argues that mankind must prepare to adapt to a very hot future Biography James Lovelock is... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is the second part of TheBuckyCall Darwin 200 years anniversary special; see the first part: The Reality of Natural Selection. 5.15 Natural Selection and the Malthusian Principle or Competition for Limited Resources   It is a well-known fact that Darwin borrowed heavily from Thomas Malthus’s Essay on Population in his initial conception... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is the first part of TheBuckyCall Darwin 200 years anniversary special; see the second part: Natural Selection and the Malthusian Principle or Competition for Limited Resources . Natural Selection But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal,... Click Here to Continue Reading

The Bucky Call will celebrate the coming anniversary of Charles Darwin, with two special calls: Next week February 12th, we will talk about: Evolution, Specialization and Extinction… With the world specializing more and more almost exclusively on making money, isn’t the banking crisis the, in the nick of time, ‘gentle tap on the... Click Here to Continue Reading