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Lost in translation
Drizzle like silk pressing jade dust Shimmering like a deep cloud Strong wind and rain Stunned Sensational briefing Current events are unpredictable Severe outbreak is banned Qingming is unable to worship the ancestral grave Affectionate ancestors all angry What do … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Phlyarology
Tagged boundaries, poetry
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Seeing the real world, revisited
With a hat tip to Fandango’s Friday Flashback, here we are, albeit a day late, with a post of mine from eight years ago today. There’s nothing special about ‘eight years’; it’s simply that, of all the fourth of April … Continue reading
How Man’s Effect On Nature Will Change Your Life
Further musings on the absurd antics of the dominant extant species on the only life-bearing planet known to said species. Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, News and politics, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy, Water
Tagged AGW, boundaries, Change, climate change, cognitive dissonance, deniers, energy, global warming, perception, risk, stupid
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What can I do?
Humanity’s demands on our planet’s resources now exceeds nature’s ability to regenerate by a massive 50%. This means that we would need one and a half planet Earths to support humanity’s current ecological footprint. And — largely due to ignorance … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, crowdsourcing, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, Health, History, Just for laughs, memetics, Music, People, Phlyarology, Strategy, Water
Tagged act, boundaries, Change, choice, climate change, communication, crowdsourcing, Earth, Ecological footprint, Global Footprint Network, homo fatuus brutus, Language, Moscow, overshoot, Russian, Smokie
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This changes everything
Posted in Business, Capitalism, Climate, Economics, Energy, Environment
Tagged act, action, activism, boundaries, Change, climate disruption, cognition, cognitive dissonance, Naomi Klein
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Focus
While I agree that it’s important not to sweat the small stuff, I believe that it’s just as important to keep one’s eye on the ball and not lose sight of the wood for the trees.
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Core thought, Education, Science, Strategy
Tagged boundaries, cognition, environment, perception, science
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Let’s Play… cut down a tree today
EXT. DENSE WOODLAND – DAWN Mist swirls amidst the trunks of the trees of an ancient forest. BURLY MAN arrives, clearly a lumberjack, armed with a large axe. He chops down a tree. FADE OUT FADE IN The sun rises. … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Fantasy, GCD: Global climate disruption, Just for laughs, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged ancient forest, boundaries, cognition, forestry, growth, habituation, lumberjack, stupid, sustainability, trees
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Schrödinger’s Leopard
That clip was just in case you don’t know what is meant by the term ‘Schrödinger’s cat’. Moving on, then… … let’s do a quick species jump, to dogs (from whom, I’m reliably assured, we can learn a lot). And … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Environment, Phlyarology, Tributes
Tagged boundaries, endangered, extinction, perception, shrödinger's cat, snow leopard
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Where are our rich influential people?
Mixed metaphors can be fun. Me, I’d love to see an image depicting our society plummetting towards the edge of a cliff like lemmings in headless chicken mode. I’m almost tempted to take up the art of, err, ‘cartooning’ — … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Capitalism, Climate, Communication, Core thought, crowdsourcing, Culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, News and politics, People, Strategy
Tagged action, activism, boundaries, Change, cognition, crowdsourcing, environment
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Wibble 