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NNadir

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4. I have written at length about the lack of decent living conditions for the bulk...
Fri Apr 8, 2016, 06:54 AM
Apr 2016

...of humanity elsewhere:

Current World Energy Demand, Ethical World Energy Demand, Depleted Uranium and the Centuries to Come

In it, I criticized, in connection with the dangerous and ignorant fool Amory Lovins...

...myopic bourgeois provincialism...


As for "redesigning society" well, leave me out of that one. I would ask those who propose such "redesign" who will do such designing, and then how said design would compare with the other seven billion redesigns possible from the other seven billion human beings.

The world has had some very bitter experience with pseudointellectual top down redesigns of society, cf, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jung-Un, etc. At a gut level, these kinds of specious solutions are a kind of arrogance.

Stalin - often praised as a genius in his life time, which probably ended with his urine soaked body being smothered by Beria, Beria's one act of decency in a depraved life - often spoke to his forced admirers of his grand success at redesigning society. I, for one, am not impressed.

Decentralization is a very, very, very, very, very bad idea, at least where energy and the environment is concerned, since by nature, distributed energy is distributed waste ultimately. This is a technical fact, and has nothing to do with culture or socioeconomic ideology.

Were it up to me, I would change many things about the world, but it is not up to me, nor, necessarily, as I have implied, should it be up to me. I would hope that humanity over all will become wiser, a weak hope perhaps, but, from my perspective, the only ethical and reasonable hope.

Have a nice day.
Consumption-driven deregulated capitalism requiring increasing production Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #1
Everyone, I do mean everyone, on the planet is involved. NNadir Apr 2016 #2
Nice read, thanks, but misses the point. Briefly, Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #3
I have written at length about the lack of decent living conditions for the bulk... NNadir Apr 2016 #4
Mmm. "Stalin", and "Libertarian". You profoundly misunderstand. Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #5
No thanks. I think I understand what I need to know about these subjects, and there are... NNadir Apr 2016 #6
Then, your advocacy is based in (deliberate) ignorance, Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #7
We all have our own definition of ignorance. Mine is obviously different than yours. NNadir Apr 2016 #11
Associating contemporary Somalia with anarchist political philosophy Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #17
where is this coming from? Any way to know where the bulk is emanating? Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #8
Forest fires in SE Asia were very much involved in the 1997-1998 event, and until 2015... NNadir Apr 2016 #9
thanks... interesting to think the increase in atmospheric C02 is due to release from a warmer ocean Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #10
We just spent, in ten years, two trillion dollars on so called "renewable infrastructure." NNadir Apr 2016 #12
I'm not convinced it is "quixotic" Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #13
Well, then, with all due respect, actual data conflicts with your failure to be convinced. NNadir Apr 2016 #14
I just said I wasn't convinced (yet), not that I can't be convinced. Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #15
Nuclear reality vs fantasy kristopher Apr 2016 #16
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