Housing ‘Crisis’: Real or Contrived? Some morning thoughts (prompted by the attached article; and a version of which I posted on my Town’s Facebook ‘Politics’ Group) that focus on my own province’s (Ontario, Canada) context regarding the issue of a housing ‘crisis’ and their attempts to ‘juice’ development/construction — well…

Critiquing ‘Renewables’ is Simply a Right-Wing Conspiracy Today’s brief Contemplation is my comment to another’s FB post. The post shares an article that paints the critiques of non-renewable, renewable energy-harvesting technologies as ‘right wing’. I’m leery of much put out by Cleantechnica whose primary focus is to sell/market (via a…

Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 2 As I stated at the close of Part 1: “We have, as a rationalising but not rational story-telling ape, created myths about our place in the universe and how we have contributed to it. Over the past several centuries, and…

Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 1 In my attempt to ‘market’ the article compilation that was recently published, I joined a couple of Facebook Groups in order to post about the document. I subsequently posted my last Contemplation (that shares my thoughts on the extreme difficulties…

What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future Viewing ‘degrowth’ through my archaeology/anthropology lens (and primarily via archaeologist Joseph Tainter’s thesis laid out in The Collapse of Complex Societies[1]) there are a number of societal factors that stymie, if not make impossible, the idealised ‘managed contraction’…

Degrowth: A Philosophy Worth Sharing (But Understand, We’re In a Predicament Without ‘Solutions’ and Time Is Not On Our Side) The following Contemplation is a response to a comment that has been prompted by conversation within the Degrowth Facebook Group I am a member of and regarding my last Contemplation…

Managed verses Unmanaged Degrowth: Do We Truly Have a Choice? Today’s brief contemplation is part of an ongoing conversation with others regarding the Degrowth movement and in response to one of my previous posts to the Peak Oil Facebook Group I am a member of. I am not sharing the…

Non-Renewable, Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHTs): For and Against…Again The ongoing ‘controversy’ regarding the pros and cons of ‘renewables’ is one I doubt will ever be ‘settled’. As with most things, there exist positive and negative attributes to this technology with one’s perspective on them varying widely as will be shown…

Enough Already You Malthusian Doomer! Today’s Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that highlights the finiteness of our world, diminishing returns upon our extraction of the minerals most necessary to support our current exceedingly complex global-industrialised world, and how this is playing out in the financial/economic…