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What is Our Actual Reality?

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  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 bleac

The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change; it is OVERSHOOT

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  Beartree Lake at Beartree Recreation Area

More Bargaining and Hopium

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Trail at Beartree Recreation Area in Virginia

Psychological Mechanisms to Deny Reality and Employ Optimism Bias

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  Backbone Rock in northern Tennessee

Cultural Programming - Who Will Stand Up For What's Right?

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  The view from Pretty Place Chapel , South Carolina

The "Solution" Obsession

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

Changing Perspectives

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Lake Jocassee as seen from the boat ramp at Devils Fork State Park in South Carolina

Summer Reflections

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  Lake Jocassee, South Carolina

New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame

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  Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina

What Exactly is Peak Oil?

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  PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK

Accepting Our Lack of Agency

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

Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture?

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  Popcorn Overlook, Lake Burton, Georgia

Exploring Deeper Acceptance, Part Two

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  Gum Gap Overlook, Grandview, Tennessee

Exploring Deeper Acceptance

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  Wolf Creek Dam , Kentucky

Exploring Acceptance

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