tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post8516823283229485180..comments2024-02-20T13:32:06.704-05:00Comments on Resource Insights: Can we live without progress?Kurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-28006543204184346072017-07-03T12:08:07.953-04:002017-07-03T12:08:07.953-04:00Humans have lived through extreme adversity many t...Humans have lived through extreme adversity many times in the past. Not all humans, but some humans. We will all die eventually. What we are faced with is a choice. Do we prepare ourselves, our family and our close community? Do we become heroines and heroes, leaders cunning and bold who help bring humanity through this storm? Or do we ignore reality ?Bear-in-overallsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-60113969196938182262017-07-02T20:17:30.186-04:002017-07-02T20:17:30.186-04:00Tim Garrett is right. Civilization is a heat engin...Tim Garrett is right. Civilization is a heat engine. Now start reading Guy McPherson.fpteditorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620275872850435922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-2829989534454817302017-07-02T12:45:38.338-04:002017-07-02T12:45:38.338-04:00our personal power neither increasing nor diminish...<i>our personal power neither increasing nor diminishing--or worse yet, possibly diminishing somewhat over time</i><br /><br />Now there is the understatement of the week! We should be so lucky. Evolution has only one measure of success, survival, and you appear to be assuming continuance of prevailing lifespans.<br /><br />But without high energy throughput supporting our global market economy, most of us would find survival impossible. Our very lives depend on carbon dioxide. Without high rates of carbon combustion, population will certainly "diminish somewhat", and very rapidly. <br /><br />I'm sure everyone would consider population collapse the very antithesis of progress. We are in the last years of the 'golden age' of modern civilization.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251330546889158364noreply@blogger.com