tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post4460814018441527565..comments2023-11-20T13:45:09.865-05:00Comments on Oil, be Seeing You: Don't Tell me Technology Will Save Us, Please!Richard Embletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17461790218807222949noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-15876113591504985572007-10-26T05:08:00.000-04:002007-10-26T05:08:00.000-04:00MWGPGF Your blog is great. Articles is interesting...MWGPGF Your blog is great. Articles is interesting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-91362450674422623192007-07-02T11:31:00.000-04:002007-07-02T11:31:00.000-04:00Nice piece, thanx!Maybe I can shed a little light ...Nice piece, thanx!<BR/><BR/>Maybe I can shed a little light in all this ...<BR/>In Europe there are movements that "fight" against the GDP:<BR/>The keyword of these movement is Decrescita felice (Italy) Decroissance soutenable (France), that badly translated is Happy/Sustainable Degrowth.<BR/><BR/>fraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-32368992165951098682007-06-17T00:03:00.000-04:002007-06-17T00:03:00.000-04:00Beginning in 1961, I spent the better part of 25 y...Beginning in 1961, I spent the better part of 25 yrs. living with Eskimos and Indians of northern Alaska. This included working with informants who had literally seen the end of the stone age when Western technology began replacing traditional tools in the latter half of the 18th Century. Can we live without all the modern conveniences we now call necessities? Yes, and ultimately we will. However, it will be a quantum leap backwards, and many will fail to make it. Those who do will come to marvel at the enormous store of knowledge and wisdom that sustained pre-industrial societies. Regaining those skills and environmenal insights will be far more important to human survival and history than any technological achievement of the past two centuries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-16258152797995018852007-06-16T09:41:00.000-04:002007-06-16T09:41:00.000-04:00P.S. I tried to go to your comments from my Linux ...P.S. I tried to go to your comments from my Linux machine and there was some kind of error. I guess that's a blogspot problem, but it only happened on your blog. Something to do with HTML or JAVA or something? I don't know. <BR/>See? I'm persistent. I rebooted in Windows just to talk to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-67335261304202960012007-06-16T09:39:00.000-04:002007-06-16T09:39:00.000-04:00Jay: stuck in two worlds. Don't it suck?Richard: G...Jay: stuck in two worlds. Don't it suck?<BR/>Richard: Great rant. We have spent the last 100 years replacing people on small farms with oil. Now we have to figure out how to put the people back. Technology is killing us, our System of Systems doesn't care as long as there is enough credit to kill people, and most people are too comfortable to do anything until the TV shuts off.<BR/>"I'll kill a man in a fair fight; or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight; or for money; or if there's a woman. But EATIN' people? When does THAT get fun?!"<BR/>--Jayne "Serenity"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-77493517881488674152007-06-06T16:00:00.000-04:002007-06-06T16:00:00.000-04:00Perhaps you forgot about chlorophyl. One molecule...Perhaps you forgot about chlorophyl. One molecule of chlrophyl contains either 5 or 6 atoms of oxygen, depending on the type of chlorophyl. Chlorophyl is a liquid (plant equivalent of blood) and the oxygen used in the formation of chlorophyl is derived from water, no expansion or contraction needed.<BR/>Richard EmbletonRichard Embletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17461790218807222949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31086848.post-83068317709675488532007-05-24T16:51:00.000-04:002007-05-24T16:51:00.000-04:00Since I can't tell you that any of the things you'...Since I can't tell you that any of the things you'd want to hear are happening, let me tell you what I do.<BR/>I now telecommute to work, drive only when necessary. I stopped doing direct mail advertising. Now I just have my webpage. Instead of printing and faxing as this industry still does, I now fill out online and e-mail.<BR/>I have over a half acre that I stopped cutting in certain areas. I call them crop circles, signs. I have a garden and grow all that I can.<BR/>I have a perrenial garden that feeds birds, bees and butterflies.<BR/>I no longer buy products. I recycle everything. I put out a half bag of trash a week.<BR/>My goal is to have no trash.<BR/>I use air conditionig sparingly, and am planting more shrubs and trees for cover.<BR/>My daughter and I walk to the park and to get ice cream. She could walk to school and church but her mom forces her to commute 22 miles each way now that we are getting divorced.<BR/>And one of the biggest things I did was stop funding my future-x-wives consumption of idiot and unesessary chinese products.<BR/>I am such a pain that I enjoy data-dumping all of this and more on any unsuspecting person and have found out there are more people like myself than I first thought.<BR/>I am part of the new revolution, the rejection of consumption and murder for oil mentality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com