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The awakening of homo fatuus brutus
The idea of gaining acceptance for a change of species name for humanity is all but impossible — and yet, at the same time, totally necessary. Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Core thought, memetics, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged Change, cognition, cognitive bias, denial, Dunning-Kruger, homo fatuus brutus, incompetence, stupid
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How Man’s Effect On Nature Will Change Your Life
Further musings on the absurd antics of the dominant extant species on the only life-bearing planet known to said species. Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, News and politics, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy, Water
Tagged AGW, boundaries, Change, climate change, cognitive dissonance, deniers, energy, global warming, perception, risk, stupid
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We are what we do
United Nations conference on environment and development Rio de Janeiro 3-14 June 1992 Severn Suzuki: Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. I am here to speak for all generations to come. … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Poetry, Science, Strategy, Tributes
Tagged 1992, activism, Arctic Death Spiral, Arctic Death Spiral and the Methane Time Bomb, Change, climate disruption, cognitive dissonance, environment, Methane Time Bomb, Rio de Janeiro, Severn Suzuki, stupid, United Nations
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The scientists are wrong
I think that the above is a pretty good indication that now is the perfect time to declare A Large Crisis. In fact, if you’ve got a moment, it’s a twelve-storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, twenty-four-hour … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Capitalism, Climate, Communication, Core thought, crowdsourcing, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, History, Just for laughs, News and politics, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy, Water
Tagged activism, AGW, climate change, climate disruption, stupid
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No Plan(et) B.
We’re currently using 1.5 Earths; the only Planet B (and C) we currently know of are 1,200 light-years away… I saw the image above in the Earth Overshoot Day Media Backgrounder at Global Footprint Network and it made me wonder … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, Health, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged Ecological footprint, environment, Global Footprint Network, perception, stupid, sustainability
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Let’s Play… cut down a tree today
EXT. DENSE WOODLAND – DAWN Mist swirls amidst the trunks of the trees of an ancient forest. BURLY MAN arrives, clearly a lumberjack, armed with a large axe. He chops down a tree. FADE OUT FADE IN The sun rises. … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Fantasy, GCD: Global climate disruption, Just for laughs, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged ancient forest, boundaries, cognition, forestry, growth, habituation, lumberjack, stupid, sustainability, trees
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Why we fail
24327 votes for: ‘Keep Dropbox simple. Just make sure it’s fast, robust, multiplatform and bug free. ‘ 59 votes for: ‘Go Green! Run your data centres with renewables!‘ Homo fatuus brutus doesn’t deserve to survive. Meanwhile, in other news… Leave … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Capitalism, Climate, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, memetics, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged activism, Change, cloud, Dropbox, fossoil, green, stupid
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Bee the change
Neonicotinoids are pesticides. The last time I checked, bees were not pests. On the contrary, bees are essential to our survival, as they and other insects pollinate the crops upon which we rely for our food. And yet our economic … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Communication, Core thought, crowdsourcing, Economics, Education, Environment, Food, Health, News and politics, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged bees, injustice, neonicotinoids, pesticide, stupid, swarm
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Even the pessimists got it wrong
Originally posted on David Robertson:
This is one of those “you bunch of bastards” moments. Moments that the people on the right don’t want you to have. It’s not that I’m against people having lots of money, or even a…
Posted in ... wait, what?, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Economics, Education, Fantasy, Phlyarology
Tagged 'common' sense, cognition, cognitive dissonance, perception, stupid
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Oblivious to the crash
(With thanks to Guy McPherson on TransitionVoice.) From “The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future” (Daedalus, Winter 2013) by Oreskes and Conway (who you may know from their seminal book Merchants of Doubt): By blocking anticipatory action, … Continue reading
