In part 4, we saw that we could not believe any prediction of the life expectancy of a non-renewable resource until you have confirmed the prediction by repeating the calculation. Using the alleged and often repeated number that the US coal reserves are sufficient to last for 500 years, Professor Bartlet exposes the fallacy of “sustainable growth”... Click Here to Continue Reading

A distinction between growth, development, and evolution. At this point in our series tearing to pieces the fallacy of sustainable growth, it becomes important to distinguish between growth, development, and evolution. Evolution involves a process of directional (but non-directed) change that leads from states closer to thermodynamic and chemical... Click Here to Continue Reading

“I don’t believe that the exponential argument is valid at the local level.” Really!? Arithmetic doesn’t hold at the local level and is dependent on the beliefs of “some” politician. Let us review what we learned in part three: Growth control is very controversial. The problem is that controlled growth just... Click Here to Continue Reading

In Chapter One of Critical Path: Speculative Prehistory Of Humanity, Buckminster Fuller states that because water is essential to all the biological organisms’ ecological systems of regeneration on our planet, the following 4 major facts about water are vitally important: (Please note that number two has been disproved since the book was written)... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is part three of a series that exposes the idiocy that sustainable growth is the future of humanity. See the video at the bottom of the article. Part two was about the use of semi log scaled paper where a straight line represents steady growth. Projections of future prices were made using a steady rate of inflation… We saw that in 1986,... Click Here to Continue Reading

This is part two of a series that tears to shreds the absurdity that sustainable growth and compounded interest are the future of humanity. See the video at the bottom of the article. In Part One we learned that some human problems are tied to the exponential function which people mostly do not understand in spite of its simplicity. The exponential... Click Here to Continue Reading

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

Please click on the image, then click on the bottom right scalable box for a full size rendition with readable text. This work is reproduced with permission from Winston Rowntree at: Please take some time to go through Mr. Rowntree gallery (link above) – he has really good thought provoking comic strips that hit the nail square... Click Here to Continue Reading

“Since human thought can calculate in minutes what it takes light to travel in one year, it may be that thought itself expands outwardly in all directions at a speed even faster than light —- maybe in no time at all —- to inter-network the people of our eight-thousand diameter spherical space home.” R. Buckminster Fuller ... Click Here to Continue Reading

INFLATION = AS YOU GET OLDER, MONEY LOSES VALUE OOOPS!   ARE YOU BEING FOOLED?   See also: • Illegaly Piggily: Are Bankers Lying To Us? A graphic representation of the subprime mortgage crisis, derivatives & securitization. • The Same Old Banking Story: Bend Over! A Bucky Fuller’s account of... Click Here to Continue Reading