Getting Honest About the Human Predicament | 2024 Teacher Workshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.พ. 2024
- Getting Honest About the Human Predicament
Presented by Art Berman, Director and Geological Consultant, Labyrinth Consulting Services
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I will never cease to be amazed that the aspect of grotesque overpopulation is rarely discussed. We talk endlessly about our diminishing resources and the precariousness of our collective situation without focusing on the CAUSE of it! I totally understand the sensitivity of the issue, but the inescapable reality of it is an issue that needs to be addressed more than any other. We, as a species, all 8 billion of us are literally "eating the Earth alive"!
Can't believe this hasn't been viewed more. I've been following Nate Hagen for about a year, and he's all over this topic. People on all sides of the argument have much to learn from this. For me, the upshot of this reality is that I and my generation (post-WW2) have had healthy, well-fed, relatively easy lives thanks to FF's. Now the bill has come due, and I fear my grandchildren will have to pay it. Assuming they survive the energy transition, or, as Nate says, the Great Simplification.
Have you ever tried to date with a woman, shiwing up in old clothes and a 1984 Chevy C10 6.2 l V8 Diesel? I quit having status long ago and live a very subsistent life. Socially totally unacceptable, hardly any consumption, and my Chevy burns less than a modern car... If more people lived my way, the economy would have collapsed long ago . Keywords are high quality, longevity, right to repair, hands-on know how, small eco building, debt free, pay as you go. Food for thought...
We walked to school, our kids rode the bus now they are individually picked up. Seems to me we are welking backwards!
Energy is the economy, oil is the worst energy we kept/keep subsidizing and still are depending on right now. But because the oil companies fooled us for decades here we are. Look at us, everything is changing and we stuck on whether we can or can't. Those graphs are a result of our oil fiend policies. God help us.
Thanks, Art - for telling it straight. I'll add; the deeper cause for overshoot is that we have evolved a mind and its workings to enable maximum power over competitors, maximum energy and materials are tools to this evolutionary biology end. But we evolve only over multi-generations. We've created a world we are not biologically suited to live in. When you're Homo Sapiens, the tragedy is not when you lose the bio competitive battles. The tragedy is when you win. Because then you take down all other life, and then your own as well. I've been teaching my students this for many years, but fewer and fewer want to hear it. They want cake/eat too, w/ solar panels, fast EV's, etc., for all 8 billion of us. They're numbers-blind and want to stay that way, stubbornly.
Look up "Collapse Acceptance"
Solar panels and electric cars won’t solve all our problems. Neither would putting in a heat pump furnace and heat pump water heater. Neither would civic action to promote renewables. Neither would supporting policies and candidates who take our concerns seriously. But it’s a darn good start.
The biggest source of problems is solutions. Old truism. As for technology and industrial capacity being the savior of humanity, I refer you to the Will Rogers truism......... "If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?"
You fingered it! Until we stop being a consumerist society, things will get worse. Quit the advertising and peddling, things don't want, or need. There is too much crap in the world. Learn to live simply. It all starts with ethos; it's about VALUES.
Refreshingly straightforward talk about the elephant in the room. Art's closing remark is still diplomatic. If Art says 'use less energy', this also means 'be (materially )poorer' . And he could have added: 'have fewer babies'.
This is an important one. A must see and must hear. Thank you ..
I cannot believe how much this video explains. I live for 20 years in the same building which was built 100 years ago. My concrete consumption is probably with bounds. The solution to this problem is understanding it.
This is a very large project that involves the major countries in the world, not just America. The hardest thing to do in a project with many people from different locations is to keep everyone focused and going in the same direction. Everyone needs to be sold what the objectives and goals are and to get them onboard with these goals and objectives. This is hard work.
What is the effect of Planned Obsolescence on resource consumption and pollution?
I would like to see a analysis on the waste of power / energy of the war machine and government, I imagine that would be a eye opener.
Recycled concrete is crushed for aggregate, not new placed concrete (unless there is some process I don’t know of that cooks out the cement and lime). It is crushed and takes a crap ton of energy to do it. Although, this is still good because many places are running out of aggregate (gravel) as well.
Art knows energy.
Art is the best.
Yep - As Art says, it's time to 'get honest about the human predicament'. What can we do? Well we can't do anything much if almost nobody understands the reality of our predicament. Get real.