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What is Our Actual Reality?

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  The Blue Ridge Discovery Center  in Konnarock, Virginia I read many articles every month, which allows me to detect certain patterns within these articles. (I am working on slowing down on the number.) A large percentage of most of them contain so much bargaining and hopium that a reader who understands the predicaments we face can only laugh or cry at them. I try to glean what I can from them and ignore the parts of denial of reality and optimism bias , but some articles are so full of crap it's just not funny. Here's a prime example of what I'm talking about (although I often list these types of articles and have even written entire articles based upon them, named appropriately, Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales ). That article (the prime example) lists an issue caused by several different symptom predicaments of ecological overshoot , namely, pollution loading , climate change, and ocean acidification (also a symptom of climate change).  Now, to be sure, the ble...

The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change; it is OVERSHOOT

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  Beartree Lake at Beartree Recreation Area

More Bargaining and Hopium

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Trail at Beartree Recreation Area in Virginia

Psychological Mechanisms to Deny Reality and Employ Optimism Bias

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  Backbone Rock in northern Tennessee