Economic Activity: An Obsession With An Illusion Of Prosperity.
Its the economy stupid. Voters want the best economic outcome, but by measuring the economy using ‘Economic Activity’, governments can effectively cheat the public. Governments
Explorations from all Topics, by Major Update.
Its the economy stupid. Voters want the best economic outcome, but by measuring the economy using ‘Economic Activity’, governments can effectively cheat the public. Governments
At least, not alone. Solar and Wind have proven to be successful partial cost effective substitutes for fossil fuels, neither wind nor solar is stored energy. Without strategies and adding stored energy available on demand, it is impossible to reach the goal of removing reliance on fossil fuels.
Consider home solar. With solar panels you can reduce your electricity costs, but to go ‘off grid’, you need a battery or other energy storage for the solar power. Yet, the need energy storage is being installed, but not connected to the grid.
In nature, we define overpopulation as when the population is beyond number the environment can sustainable without environmental damage. Those warning of overpopulation, will often
Humanity has just experienced a population explosion. Whether you believe we are overpopulated or not, the facts are that we have had a population explosion. A period of population growth that peaked at rate over 100x accelerated above the average over human history. Why? Not because of more food, the industrial revolution, or improved farming or access to fossil fuel, but due to modern medicine.
Globally, the when is now. Although locally, experiences differ by location.
Data now clearly confirms that globally, the world has returned to ‘peak child’, a precursor to a likely return to peak population, following three centuries of a population explosion.
Reaching peak child again means we could again be a mature species, will soon return to existing in balance with nature and other living things. Perhaps even stop displacing other species?
Augmented reality was seen as potentially the way of the future when introduced in 2013. So far, augmented reality through sight has never delivered and people wearing augmented reality glasses are not a common sight. In contrast, people wearing headphones and earphones are everywhere. Augmented sound reality is here (or hear?) and if anything, is growing in significance. This page looks at the topic overall but also includes some specific reviews.
As opposed to a blog, on this site new information comes mostly as updates to existing pages, which include a list of what has been. Pages in the order they were first published is also available.
While I do have ‘timeline’ pages, which do not get updates beyond typo corrections etc as these provide a snapshot of how things were at a point in time, in depth analysis pages are at their best after reflection and improvement.
To see a history of what has changed, click the “Updated” link at the top any page.