dougcar

[dougcar]

Gardenworld chapters posted at

Gardenworld chapters posted at

https://douglasscarmichael.substack.com/

[dougcar]

Switching to Substack

Experiment https://douglasscarmichael.substack.com/

[dougcar]

2383. Pyrocene

As the Anthropocene fades…….

[dougcar]

2382. Education and climate change.

2382. Education and climate change.

We had education for politics – Athens. We had education fr Bible study We had education for Class position and style we had till recently education for jobs We have aduction a a holding box wiht no outlet. We need education for common sense. Obviously pouring smoke into the air Is not good. Thoreau was clear. See Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden. We need to be educated…

[dougcar]

2381. Why aren't we good Keynesians?

2381. Why aren’t we good Keynesians?

“Europe was so organised socially and economically as to secure the maximum accumulation of capital. While there was some continuous improvement in the daily conditions of life of the mass of the population, society was so framed as to throw a great part of the increased income into the control of the class least likely to consume it. The new rich of the nineteenth century were not brought up to…

[dougcar]

2380. Kids..

2380. Kids..

“I’m studying for a future that’s currently being destroyed’; ‘Why should I get educated when politicians don’t listen to the educated?’; ‘Why go to school if we don’t have any future?’ These were typical handwritten placards at the strikes – and in Holyrood, the kids held a banner saying ‘Capitalism is crisis’; and in Cologne, they unfurled one calling on people to ‘Burn capitalism, not coal’.…

[dougcar]

2379. culture and economics

2379. culture and economics

Where is the culture going is more important than where is the economy going. It is more definitive. No economy without cultural assumptions. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is unbounded and without some principle of responsibility. Compare to China’s mandate of heaven.

[dougcar]

2378 Feynman on the long future for humans

2378 Feynman on the long future for humans

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. — Richard Feynman This s so reasonable – and beautiful.

[dougcar]

2377. Local plus tech

2377. Local plus tech

We humans need to humanize the world. Gardenworld Politics is a strategic guiding vision for integrated responses to issues of turbulence — climate crisis, inequality, and governance, to make for an attractive society. Remember that we are, at the core, primates seeking survival strategies. Politics is in the title because we must move beyond policy to action.  Politics, comes from the Greek for…

[dougcar]

2376. we are led by other people

2376. we are led by other people

their ideas, skills, motives, awareness. We have our work laid out around us.

[dougcar]

2375. if corporations can't change?

2375. if corporations can’t change?

Large corporations are destroying life on earth, that they can’t help themselves, they can’t change or change very much, that so long as we live under this system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction,” Excerpt From: Richard Smith. “Green capitalism: the god that failed.” Apple Books.  How do we get out of this mousetrap?

[dougcar]

2374. Conundrum, where would we be without fossil fuel.

2374. Conundrum, where would we be without fossil fuel.

We needed to stop fossil fuel at the start. Now too late? Let’s start with admitting it was a huge mistake, and we have not been coherent enough as a species to have paid attention to those who first raised the warning. . it was huge mistake, yet all of modem life is built on it. Now we need fast action. From where could it come?

[dougcar]

2375. Boardroom talk

I assume all the boars of organizations and most executive teams are discussing the IPCC report. But maybe not. Cuomo and infrastructure seems to take the news cycle. The reporters are stuck along with the policy makers and ceos are – what could be said? There is no action that can survive arguments – except the need to cut fossil fuel use, and we aren’t going to get that. So there is no action…

[dougcar]

Atlantic's view

Atlantic’s view

The Atlantic has Some of the worst impacts of climate change can still be avoided. “There are still emissions pathways that would lead us to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, but they require deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions,” Flato said. “That leaves a glimmer of optimism that we could limit warming to levels like that.” But it would require much more expedient action from the United…

[dougcar]

click to..

The site now is at https://carmichaelconversation.com.

[dougcar]

2373. Logic

We must cut CO2 So do that we must stop burning fossil fuel. If we do that some business and homes will be cut which causes complex destabiiation Which means people get hurt so we need a new form of welfare. In sum, we nee to cut fossil fuel help this who are affected.

[dougcar]

2372. Stuck, can't stop.

2372. Stuck, can’t stop.

Can’tstop at  max 1,5 with the government structure we currently have? Thus we have to change government. Elections? Local initiatives? Government falls apart as people don’t com to work when their families are threatened? Storm the Bastille? How will the Natoional  Right and the National  Left conflict  or cooperate  on any of these?  At a seminar today it was said that building out the grid…