Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

  An early morning picture at Black Rock Mountain State Park in Georgia

  Popcorn Overlook, Lake Burton, Georgia

  Gum Gap Overlook, Grandview, Tennessee

  Seeing the forest through the trees can be difficult; this is the Section Eight Woods in the Cache River Wetlands in Southern Illinois

  Pictures from Seneca State Forest, West Virginia

  Farm near Douthat State Park, Virginia

  Douthat State Park Beach, Virginia

  Eagle Rock Train Station, Eagle Rock, Virginia

  Recently, I saw a comment from John Robin Strohl that really struck home, quote: " We are here for conversation, not conversion. " I see it the same way; that most everyone wants change, but nobody wants TO change. People are consistently looking for external change but don't seem to realize that external change can only come about from internal change. Another set of facts about change is equally important: Here's the thing...changing behavior isn't really as difficult as it may seem, but it does require a desire to change and the commitment to follow through. Most people really just don't want to convert (change), thinking that, "Why should I do it if I don't have to?" Most of my regular readers will understand that in reality, it isn't optional. If society doesn't change our collective behavior, then nature will force behavior change upon us and those who don't comply will perish. Of course, people are going to perish regardle

  Falling Spring Falls, Falling Spring, Virginia

  Buchanan, Virginia

  Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia

  Fairy Stone State Park, Stuart, Virginia

Mountains as seen from Tennessee Welcome Center

  Silver Springs Filling Station , US 176, South Carolina

  Lake Juniper at Cheraw State Park, South Carolina

 

Kure Beach Pier, North Carolina How often do you develop a theory about something or hear about one and then try to prove that theory wrong? I keep trying to prove my theories wrong but instead keep finding proof that they are actually correct (highly disappointingly, I might add). I'm constantly asking WHY we haven't come to realize and accept the facts and then actually ACT upon those facts collectively. For instance, why aren't we working on reducing technology use? The Degrowth Movement recognizes that energy and resource throughput must be reduced either by design or by disaster, and that as such, this necessarily dictates a reduction of technology use. One cannot keep introducing new technologies which require the infrastructural platforms which already exist and magically expect the energy and resources to build, power, and maintain these devices to appear out of nowhere. Furthermore, the energy to power and maintain the infrastructural platforms we ALREADY have

Atlantic Ocean, Kure Beach, North Carolina

Looking towards the Atlantic Ocean from Fort Macon, North Carolina