"Lets recycle another thread shall we. I'm all for providing second chances." Might as well be environmental.
It is interesting that this year EarthshipVillageColorado started(10 years after my blog). I will be meeting Mike Reynolds and the staff next weekend. I will further give away some of my experienced building techniques, the course pour, soil cement, and slip forming for garden walls and tile look floors.
This is a development of 200 Earthships just ESE of CoSpgs.
http://www.earthshipvillagecolorado.com/I have not seen Ann or Fosgate, or many others here, lately. Good to see Iowanic back.
Well, on subject, what can we do to survive various scenarios?
1)A world depression induced by Cascadia and the melt down of the dollar? Induced by LaPalma? (both huge tsunamis and earthquakes), }population crash, species survival and more time to stop emissions, but return of CAGW without the reductions of emissions.{
2)or a volcanic winter from Katla? }population crash, species survival and more time to stop emissions, but return of CAGW without the reductions of emissions.{
3)A "limited" nuclear war? }population crash, possible nuclear biosphere poisoning{
4)A ten year global volcanic winter by artificially blowing Yellowstone and Toba?}population crash and return of the biosphere to late interglacial norm, over a major recovery period of 400 years and absorption of most pollution within 50K years, survival of human species and most others{
5)A thermal max with 95+% extinction level and 10 million year biosphere recovery? }survival 0{
6)A runaway greenhouse effect with permanent destruction of the biosphere? }survival 0{
Technology of the Folsom point, and bows and arrows, started the elimination of other species predators except diseases.
Attitude of various religions led to lower self-predation. Inability to see the consequences of actions into the future led to black, dirty, stinky fossil fuel use. This stimulated the mammal population of humans into a crash population curve from the shallow curve around slowly changing sustainable long term population(1/2 during glacial phase). This overpopulation with greed caused pollution hundreds of times more than the biosphere could absorb, and resource depletion on a massive scale.
Increase in longevity and decrease in infant mortality from technology and religious dogma, added to the overpopulation.
The massive HGHGs led to the tipping point of methane turnover, a natural process in reaction to excessive Arctic heat.
Business as usual or insufficient actions lead to 5 or 6, and no survival. There aren't any "good" scenarios possible, except for the actual intervention of God.
"I Can Feel Him In The Morning"
[Child 1:]
He kind of started all the plants growing, and he started people.
Well, I guess he's kind of big and fat.
[Child 2:]
He can see us wherever we go ... whatever we do.
He has such powerful eyes -- he has to have millions and thousands and billions.
And he can still see us when we're bad.
[Child 3:]
He could be sitting on the table right now, but you can't see him.
[Child 4:]
He can't be everywhere at once doing everything for everybody.
Everybody can't get what they want.
[Child 5:]
Well, his job is to make us good and to make us happy and make us parents happy.
[Child 6:]
Good is the right thing and bad is the wrong thing.
[Child 7:]
When I'm good my mother never yells at me, when I'm bad she does.
[Child 8:]
Good means to obey your mother and father, to do what the teacher says -- the things right.
I feel miserable when I'm ... when I'm bad,
I feel miserable on the inside but, on the outside, I just feel like I ... I feel now.
[Child 9:]
I think ... um, um ... there are more people that are bad than there are good.
And, um ...
if you're good, you'll live forever.
And, if you're bad, you'll die when you die ...[repeat last sentence two more times to fade in echo]
Take me down to the water, let me feel it run over me.
Let me feel the pain and the coldness, the loneliness that there must be.
Whoa, can't you see their dreams, as they go drifting by?
Whoa, can't you see their faces, and their tear-soaked eyes?
[CHORUS]
I can feel him in the morning, I can feel him in the evening too.
I can hear him in the morning, tellin' me what I got to do.
Got to make a new world, ought to make the old one right.I can see him in the morning, I can see him in the stars at night.
Take me out to the battlefield, let me hear the shells flying by.
Let me hear the sound of the cannons, let me hear them scream and cry.
Whoa, can't you hear their dreams, as they tumble to the blood-soaked ground?
Whoa, hear them scream for shelter, from the world they never found.
[CHORUS]
Writer(s): Don Brewer, Mark Farner
Copyright: Cram-renraff Co., Story Book Music Co.