New Anthropocene
Biodiversity
Boom and Bust: The Bigger the Boom, the bigger the BOOM
I’ve been saying this for some time now. Australia, as well known, is a boom and bust cycle country. It isn’t alone with this cycle either. As we venture further into an unmanaged Anthropocene (as I truly believe we will need to shift from the illusion of stewards to outright engineers) these cycles are likely … Continue reading
As We Sit and Wait for Political Action on Climate Change
Many of us comment merited scepticism regarding the global political will to address our economic woes, immoral species loss and unmitigated climate change. All are symptoms of where progress over recent decades has led us. Arguably, it is a stale mate position that trickle feeds resources in growing exponential quantities as the given group becomes … Continue reading
The Great Murray River: The Real Tragedy of the Commons
The horizon stretches out before me, flat but for a few clusters of trees. The baked soil makes the horizon dance beneath the hot sun. It is an arid environment and yet, before my feet spreads out an artificial wetland, complete with ibis, herons, egrets, plovers and ducks. Some of these wetland plots are void … Continue reading
The Human Island has been revised!
In the lead up to the release of two more ebooks, I decided to revisit The Human Island as I was more or less happy with it, except that it did suffer from some grammatical errors and difficult wording. It helps also, because both new books will follow on from the basis I constructed within … Continue reading
The Hypocrisy of Truthers
Over the past three years in providing a small effort to countering disinformation, a fairly robust feature has emerged from my observations of disinformers, both from direct observations and in the literature regarding their nature. The fundamental cognitive dissonance provides green pastures for a healthy, if not gluttonous hypocrisy. I have discussed in one form … Continue reading
PETA: When Ideological Myopia Undoes ‘the Cause’
I spend a lot of time attacking the ideologies of what could be loosely termed strongly conservatives. Far less of my posts have targeted another group which too deserves as much criticism. I, for one, thank Greenpeace for their activities in pursuing whaling operations. Not so much from an emotional view point, but from the … Continue reading
Elitism: the Ivory Tower and Mann on a Gold Plated Jet-ski
Musing further on my previous post, I’m drawn back again and again to the term (which I subjected to a footnote) “elitist”. It’s a term we’re all too aware of; thrown like mud from the committed sceptical community. “Woe! How the elitist scientific community doth rent-seek at the expense of the common person and true … Continue reading
Imposing Meaning: The Conflict Between Ideologies Masked as Reasoned Debate
Light in the absence of eyes, illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world, but are granted by the act of seeing. Events contain no meaning in themselves, only the meaning the mind imposes on them. Yet, the world endures… As a teenager, I was obsessed with the animated series Æon Flux. The … Continue reading
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
How hot is the shower? As one increases the temperature of the water, the answer to this question becomes less and less subjective and more and more objective. Eventually, it becomes conclusively too hot, where cellular damage can be measured. I mention this because on re-entering the blogosphere lately, I have found the comment threads … Continue reading
Have We Lost Control?
The more I reflect on what I have learnt regarding the inherent cultural values associated with factual evidence (such as that relating to evolution, climate change etc) and from discussions with others on the subject, I’m drawn to one point which I feel is potentially the most difficult to overcome by those who reject evidence … Continue reading
