#small_is_beautiful

[urbanyayawarblog]

Project 366 - Day 26 When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead, That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead In summer luxury,—he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The Poetry of earth is never dead. ~ John Keats #project366 #macro_day #small_is_beautiful (at HideOut Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8UBw39J6sy/?igshid=1nl5t97wf6lvu

[artsyamna-blog]

My first mini painting. it's super cute 😍 #art #miniaturepainting #nature #oilpainting #artsy #small_is_beautiful

[liberlibris]

Nuclear Energy - Salvation or Damnation - E. F. Schumacher

Based on The Des Voeux Memorial Lecture, 1967, "Clean Air and Future Energy -- Economics and Conservation," published by the National Society for Clean Air, London, 1967

The main cause of the complacency -- now gradually diminishing -- about future energy supplies was undoubtedly the emergence of nuclear energy, which, people felt had arrived just in time. Little did they bother to inquire precisely what it was that had arrived. It was new, it was astonishing, it was progress, and promises were freely given that it would be cheap. Since a new source of energy would be needed sooner or later, why not have it at once?

The following statement was made six years ago. At the time, it seemed highly unorthodox,

The religion of economics promotes an idolatry of rapid change, unaffected by the elementary truism that a change which is not an unquestionable improvement is a doubtful blessing. The burden of proof is placed on those who take the "ecological viewpoint": unless they can produce evidence of marked injury to man, the change will proceed. Common sense, on the contrary, would suggest that the burden of proof should lie on the man who wants to introduce a change; he has to demonstrate that there cannot be any damaging consequences. But this would take too much time, and would therefore be uneconomic. Ecology, indeed, ought to be a compulsory subject for all economists, whether professionals or laymen, as this might serve to restore at least a modicum of balance. For ecology holds "that an environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continuously use and re-use the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering. All changes in a complex mechanism involve some risk and should be undertaken only after careful study of all the facts available. Changes should be made on a small scale first so as to provide a test before they are widely applied. When information is incomplete, changes should stay close to the natural processes which have in their favour the indisputable evidence of having supported life for a very long time

http://www.ditext.com/schumacher/small/2.html#4

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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Small_Is_Beautiful

[artsyamna-blog]

My first mini painting. it's super cute 😍 #art #miniaturepainting #nature #oilpainting #artsy #small_is_beautiful

[artsyamna-blog]

Small clip while making miniature oil painting. 🎨 #making #oilpainting #art #small_is_beautiful

[artsyamna-blog]

What about small paintings on 7 cm wood panel? #art #oilpainting #artsy #small_is_beautiful