Welcome to One Finite Planet.
The Anthropocene is not the only change facing humanity, as several factors combine to drive disruption. This site looks at navigating the disruption.
Why this site exists, the philosophy behind content, the structure and how to find content on this site, are all available here.
This site publishes research into topics pages as which are continually updated, so instead of separate pages for each new item of information, the new content will normally create updates to an existing ‘webpaper‘, leading to bigger pages but with all information in context and in one place, so do check for updates.
Content is grouped into topics, which are in turn grouped into subtopics with the top-level topics listed below.
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Either way, disruption is imminent & preparation advisable.
Clothes, homes, vehicles, phones, tools: We are not all batman, but accessories give humans superpowers.
Population: yes we have overpopulation but this one is full of surprises, includong surprising economic implictions.
The ‘poster child’ of environment discussion breaks out into its own topic,
Beyond the climate, the popular issues of habitat destruction, extinctions, and plastic waste, there are still suprises that are overlooked, as well as predictions and analyss on covid-19/pandemics that may surprise.
remember when a photograph was proof? Is a video still evidence? What
can we still be certain of in the world of fake news and outrage media
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, is about the likely future outcomes. In the first section, the outcomes are those likely in response to challenges (or “threats” in SWAT terminology), while those in the second section are pure opportunities. section 2, “opportunities”.
Continually updated evolving book on a set of 8 topic groups, that i have found to constain surprises, and key insights into the likely future.
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This site started in 2015, for reasons outlined in ‘why’.
Topics here have evolved to now be grouped under threats and opportunities. All contain subjects I have found to surprise, give insight into our future, or both.
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the future
Not advocacy of what people should do, nor outrage about what people are doing, but a collection of observations that i find either suprising, revealing about the future, or both.
Topics and Subtopics.
2023 may not the year to buy an EV, but it’s definitely too late to buy a new ICEV!
While there are still valid reasons to hesitate before buying an EV in 2023, it’s definitely late to buy a new ICE vehicle and a better time to instead plan a combustion engine exit.
Considering the trend from where EVs were 5 years ago to today, and then projecting EV sales growth over the next 5 years, and it seems almost certain almost all ICEVs of today are an obsolescence risk.
While this does not mean everyone should rush out and buy an EV, it is an opportunity to prepare for an aspect of the future that may catch some unawares.
Environment: On all paths, disruption is imminent & preparation advisable.
Either we disrupt the economic system of a gradual path to transition from fossil fuels, extreme weather disrupts us, or most likely we deal with a mix of both disruptions.
We are living through many trends that simply cannot continue, and while there is competition for which trend reaching a tipping point will cause the greatest disruption over the next decade, the environment and rising CO2 levels will play a key role by 2030.
While some righteous environmentalists protest for everyone to embrace austerity and simply just stop burning fossil fuels, what is required is replacement infrastructure reliant on fossil fuels. In practice we can’t switch off until positive action replaces the need for fossil fuels, which is progressing too slowly in a failing effort to avoid disrupting economies and the establishment.
Reality is both the extreme weather events that further motivate action and those actions themselves will cause disruption, which will both combine with the disruption from AI and the collapse of economic Ponzi schemes.
Population: Our greatest achievement may cause our demise.
Arguably mankind’s greatest achievement, the near eradication of infant mortality, has resulted in a population explosion resulting in overpopulation that we prefer not to mention, even though it may yet kill us. Technically we would not die from overpopulation itself, just as people don’t really die from “old age”, and the real risk is that an already present threat will be exacerbated and become fatal because through our greed we ignore overpopulation.
Unlike old age, the overpopulation risk factor could be avoided or reversed, we may be influenced by economists dependant on Ponzi schemes, the worlds’ largest corporations and billionaires who thrive off the resultant increases in inequality into believing that living conditions required by ever increasing population levels benefit everyone and not just those living in mansions.
RCS – The SMS successor and blue bubbles vs green culture war.
The world and usage of SMS has moved on since the introduction in 1992, and the system lacks many features now seen as essential including, even the ability to see if a message has been received.
Apple has its own proprietary “iMessage” SMS/MMS successor for communication between iPhones within the Apple walled garden and the bubble wars, Facebook has its own messages system and has “What’s App”, but is there room for a true SMS successor that is not a walled garden fully controlled by one technology company to create division into “tribes”, and instead is able to connect all devices just like the original SMS system?
RCS is simple to enable and is the best messaging solution for Samsung and other Android phones and to end culture wars and walled gardens.
Could Trump become responsible for more deaths than Hitler?
A recent article on how even during the July 2023 heat wave the US republican party was still falling in line with Donald Trump and
Big oil ramps up anti-EV stance… but how much?
Big oil has been investing heavily in swaying public option against both climate action and electric vehicles for decades now, but it is reported that
Welcome to One Finite World. As opposed to blog posts that convey a persons thoughts at one point in time, most pages here continue to evolve to be improved and updated over time, and are explorations of ideas being examined to discover answers, by career analyst of future trends with a background in science.me to One Finite World. These pages are explorations of a variety of topics from a futurist perspective, and unlike blog posts, have their content updated and improved over time.
The pages are not “this is what I think”, but more “here is the information I have, so what is the answer, and am I missing things?”.
What is here that might be of interest? And how to find it? The summaries, surprises and myths are of potential interest to everyone, while other content is more specialised. The search box and categories to right may help, but the contents below intended to best facilitatinallow finding anything and is organised from general interest through to the more specific as the intended best path to navigate to find content of interest, with the most common theme be .
Population. My journey to understanding population and overpopulation.
- Normal Population growth mirrors what happens with cells within our bodies, there is growth to maturity, growth for repair, but otherwise, there is stability.
- Our recent population explosion was not normal, and resulting in an unsustainable population without major concessions to how we live.
- We are at peak child and approaching Peak Humanity:
- We have only one finite planet, and it is already full of life. Further growth of the human population, requires a reduction in the population of other life.
- Further population growth will erode quality of life for all but a small elite group.
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- We have only one finite world, which can only host a finite amount of life. One of the biggest questions is how much of the life we share the planet with should be other humans, and how much do we leave for other living things?
- Is increasing the percentage of life that is us humans essential for economic growth, or from a certain point, does it means a smaller share each of an increasingly damaged planet?
- Does the qualify of life suffer for all without the wealth to increase their share?
- A summary of the findings from exploration of the population explosion, the impact of future population, and how this elephant in the room taboo topic is not only, as discussed by David Attenborough, critical to the natural world.
- The economic future as the battle intensifies between those running the humanity equivalent to a chicken farm, and the masses or ‘caged hens’ producing the golden eggs.
- Key highlights and surprises from deeper explorations of contemporary topics such as:
Will Electric Cars Change the Balance of Economic and Military Power In the World?
Covid-19, and how long will vaccinations against Covid-19 be required?- Social media uses the power of AI to increase polarisation, dissatisfaction and outrage. Why?
The Earth has only recently supported life on land, and that support will not continue for much longer..- Why do CO2 levels create a climate crisis now, when it was not a problem back when there were dinosaurs?
UFOs, are real! Now even Obama, Republicans and the current US government are spilling the beans.
- In depth explorations of a range of contemporary topics for those interested in the topics:
- Population, Overpopulation, and the 300 year population explosion.
- Polarisation and Conflict, and Left vs Right: The ideology of conflict and we all get along in a world where polarisation has now been monetized.
- Wealth Creation and Distribution: Earths almost 8 billion needs food, clothing, housing and more.
- Electric Cars and the changes to society once stop being too expensive for mainstream buyers.
- ‘Posts’ that reflect a chronology of events:
Trump and the 2020 US election.- Covid-19, from first being alarmed back in Jan 2020 through an observation of the pandemic from Australia.
- Science and Technology Explorations.
- Science, from science background and relativity made simple through to theories as the cutting edge.
- Technology, ‘Free Technology‘ and Robotics.
- Electric Vehicles.
- Product Reviews: Of potential interest to those looking for information on a product I have reviewed.
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)