Some of this is repeating but so important to understand.
Michaux has done another insightful and broad-ranging report on the impossibility -almost - of replacing fossil fuels with any mix of alternative regimes. The problem is. first, such a replacement regime takes too many minerals and takes too long. And, if attempted, costs too much. In any case, there is a need for social changes in the organization and goals of society (societies). He hints at these but the analysis, is much less penetrating than his energy and material analysis (which you should read because it is so good and stirs good thinking. A new video is posted at
Tasks for society, not material, but social structure, from local to civilizational. Different energy systems will require a different society but there is little discussion of what that would be. For example, huge changes in the Architecture and. building industry and re-organized agriculture around new very short supply chainsWHILE WE
Every future effort must consider the impact on quality of life, which will be very difficult given the musical chairs’ reality of less for too many.
We are facing major unknowns. Individuals are arranged in families, towns, watersheds, bioregions, nations, and civilizations. Can any of these orders take on climate change?
(There was just an unusual opening to an Asian climate meeting. It began with a young boy holding an earth ball and saying "Why must I die? What did I do wrong? “
Joined by dancers in black representing the climate challenges, and then joined by dancers and singers. It was a very unusual way to start a conference. The problem began with the minister giving the first speech and sadly he made no reference, no recognition of what the audience had just experienced. The speech then was very focused on financial approaches and added a sentence that hydrogen (already discredited) as being the core Malaysian approach to meeting climate goals. The long formality of the speaker's introduction. The fourth speaker made reference and added that the music was by Michael Jackson and added that after that presentation perhaps we do not need speeches.
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Another way of putting it is that most key federal managers, not just in Malaysia, are operating below the level of strategy. Most never respond to some tipping points
From Nate Hagens: