Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

  Delt Church Park trail Before I get started on today's article, I'd like to take a moment to thank all those who posted comments recently; especially the supportive ones. I think that being more supportive in today's atmosphere of eroding trust and increasing violence is one way to thwart those trajectories. Not only do I appreciate these comments, but I am certain that others are benefitting from them too! One item I considered putting into my recent article about suicide I decided to put into a future article instead to keep the first article more compact. This explains the inspiration for this article which has been similar to suicide in my line of articles - it has been put on the back burner too long and needs to be brought into the light. I don't take these articles lightly, but at the same time I likewise do not think they are more than they are. Ever since I discovered the psychological roots as to why  and how we got ourselves into this mess of inescapabl...

  Overlook on  Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway

  Hyde Hall at Glimmerglass State Park

I think they need one more sign here...am I going to get in trouble?

The walkway down to Otsego Lake at Fairy Springs Park outside of Cooperstown, New York

Early October morning at Hills Creek State Park

Round Barn in Indiana

Ludington Pumped Hydro Project with Lake Michigan in background

The lone boat on Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , Michigan

People enjoying the shoreline at Sleeping Bear Dunes , Michigan

  Mash Fork Falls, Camp Creek State Park, West Virginia

Fog rising over a farm field in Virginia

  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...

  Beartree Lake at Beartree Recreation Area

Trail at Beartree Recreation Area in Virginia

  Backbone Rock in northern Tennessee

  The view from Pretty Place Chapel , South Carolina

  Picture of Table Rock Mountain in South Carolina taken from Bald Ridge Heritage Preserve

  Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina