What is Special Pleading?
The inside of the Hyde Hall Covered Bridge (Burr Arch design) built in 1825 at Glimmerglass State Park in New York.
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The Wisdom of Experience and Maturity
I think they need one more sign here...am I going to get in trouble?
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame
Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina
What's a Hyperobject and Why Can't We Control Them?
Playhouse (for the landowners' grandchildren) in Jonesboro, Illinois Four of my articles over the past couple of years are part of a four-part series titled, " So, What Should We Do? " The first three articles were written, one after the other, back in 2021 after I discovered our lack of free will which condemns us to make choices based upon our biological (see the Maximum Power Principle ) and cultural conditioning (see this article ). This led me to realize that we truly lack agency to be able to control hyperobjects such as nature, climate change, ecological overshoot , the biosphere, etc. Not only is the predicament of overshoot too difficult for most people to grasp, many people unfortunately place it in the category of problems (with answers or solutions) rather than predicaments (with outcomes). Attempting to reduce issues seen as problems tends to turn those issues into bigger problems and/or predicaments. Often this is due to those working on these issues ...
Conservation, Saving Species, Fighting Climate Change, and Rebelling Against Extinction
Gazebo in Jonesboro, Illinois
Dave Gardner For President!
Dave Gardner is going to run for President of the USA in 2024! I've never been much into politics simply due to the fact that there are no political (or any other types) solutions to the predicaments we face. This is extremely difficult for most people to fathom, as denial of reality and optimism bias seem to rule the day with so many people who think technology or some other form of idolatry will save us. I also realize that reducing overshoot in the US might not have much effect around the rest of the world. As I've seen some people put it, so-called "solutions" are 4 or 5 decades too late. Still, I do see benefit in attempting to reduce the harm by reducing overshoot. Whether or not such attempts are successful are not as important as simply making the effort, in my mind. Of course, I've been made fun of for quite some time for this very stance, and yet it doesn't really bother me anymore. More often than not, the reasons folks laugh are because they...
What Are Self-Sufficient Communities and Why Are They More Hype Than Substance?
Some selected images from Pike Lake State Park
The Climate Crisis, Localization, and Collapse
Louisville, Kentucky skyline as seen from the Big Four Bridge at Waterfront Park
