Problems, Predicaments, and Technology

  Coxhall Gardens, Carmel, Indiana

  Today, rather than just an article I wrote, I have an entire collection to share! For anyone who is interested in ecological overshoot, this has just been released: IT BEARS REPEATING: BEST OF…VOLUME 1 With a Foreword and Afterword by Michael Dowd, authors include: Max Wilbert; Tim Watkins; Mike Stasse; Dr. Bill Rees; Dr. Tim Morgan; Rob Mielcarski; Dr. Simon Michaux; Erik Michaels; Just Collapse’s Tristan Sykes & Dr. Kate Booth; Kevin Hester; Alice Friedemann; David Casey; and, Steve Bull. Follow the link in the title above to access the downloadable PDF. Enjoy!

Some selected images from Pike Lake State Park

  The chairlift at Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia

On the  Big Four Bridge  in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky skyline as seen from the Big Four Bridge at Waterfront Park

  Two pictures from Cairo, Illinois

  Viking Mountain Overlook, Tennessee

Mountains as seen from Tennessee Welcome Center

  Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, North Carolina

  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

Green anole at Hoop Pole Creek Nature Trail, North Carolina