The Difference Between Hope (Fear) and Courage (No Fear)
Early October morning at Hills Creek State Park
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What is Our Actual Reality?
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...
Psychological Mechanisms to Deny Reality and Employ Optimism Bias
Backbone Rock in northern Tennessee
Cultural Programming - Who Will Stand Up For What's Right?
The view from Pretty Place Chapel , South Carolina
The "Solution" Obsession
Picture of Table Rock Mountain in South Carolina taken from Bald Ridge Heritage Preserve
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame
Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina
Exploring Acceptance
Seeing the forest through the trees can be difficult; this is the Section Eight Woods in the Cache River Wetlands in Southern Illinois
