tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post53286528830525275..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Adaptation and the long viewKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-32034914193478488452010-07-18T15:55:30.845-04:002010-07-18T15:55:30.845-04:00Myself, I like the analogy of a greenhouse plant a...Myself, I like the analogy of a greenhouse plant as a comparison of the unstable complexity of civilization:<br /><br /><i>An example of this kind of thinking is the typical greenhouse plant. By providing a greenhouse environment, ideal conditions are made for plant growth and productivity. Successive generations of greenhouse plants become more adept to the environment of the greenhouse. However, if the greenhouse environment is lost, either by the plant being removed from the greenhouse, or the greenhouse being destroyed in some fashion, the plant's survivability is minimal. What was meant to be a way of creating ever more productive plant life ends in complete loss of the genetic strain of what was inevitably a fragile existence. Outside the greenhouse, plant life continues, as having been constantly exposed to harsh conditions, it must adapt to an equally harsh environment (the stimulus). Thus, in the end, hardening of the individual (stimulus) ends in a more prolonged success than simply softening the blow (response).</i>CaptainPlanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02908365250548051173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-73785416843906554662010-07-18T12:38:20.039-04:002010-07-18T12:38:20.039-04:00Thanks Kurt for your always enlightened articles! ...Thanks Kurt for your always enlightened articles! As a species we have often faced what appeared to be the ultimate disaster/apocalypse - perhaps that is why the myth of apocalypse is so pervasive! <br />In 1980, I faced my own apocalypse when my heart stopped for 10 minutes (!) while under a general anesthetic to have my forehead sutured following a car accident in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving me without the abilities to walk, speak, remember and all the other capabilities that we learn as infants. Unwilling to accept those new realities, I staggered, walked and jogged more than 330 miles to relearn them, ran my own design business within 5 years, and becoming a professor at one of the premier university-level design schools in the world within 9 years, all driven by the understanding that we were all lost unless we rapidly developed the world's first 105% sustainable global infrastructure, as partially detailed on my website at www.greenmillennium.eu.<br /><br />I hope that the information and designs there simply inspire you all to do even better, and I welcome all informed criticism of the open-source designs!Kim Gyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01776012794643635629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-6472087162574592122010-07-18T11:11:38.822-04:002010-07-18T11:11:38.822-04:00Unfortunately turning "Archdruid" isn...Unfortunately turning <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">"Archdruid"</a> isn't any better (a different kind of wishful thinking).jldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-24878877855008497442010-07-18T11:01:26.178-04:002010-07-18T11:01:26.178-04:00Indeed robotics is nice, enjoy...Indeed robotics is <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/" rel="nofollow">nice</a>, enjoy...jldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1070704279370892522010-07-18T09:01:04.816-04:002010-07-18T09:01:04.816-04:00We still are hunting and gathering. So far techno...We still are hunting and gathering. So far technology has been a very abundant hunting ground. When hunted out, we'll move on.Jim Holmhttp://www.coal2nuclear.comnoreply@blogger.com