Sitemap - 2024 - Douglass’s Newsletter
Intersticies, nodes, and spider webs: social structure
Hurricanes and the storms of the dark side
Garden world struggling in Ashville and surround
Caring vs thinking: who are we?
Why immigration works to the disadvantage of locals
Our all too narrow thinking costs us.
Will we try needed social changes at scale?
Gardenworld is based on the idea that small attractive garden communities will survive
Missing electricity and missing institutions
Why we are stuck on cutting fossil fuels
Social structure on top of material culture
Sea levels, walls and the wealthy
What decisions will people need to make as climate disruption arrives?
We know farl less history than we need to. This from a book on the Late Roman Empire.
Decisions people will have to make soon that many already have.
Modern society by destroying relationships makes change hard
Rifkin fuuture scenario, worth playing with
Origin of the idea of private property
Continuing on capitalism as the source of Gaiacide
Narratives are needed and you need at least one.
Major shifts in culture possible
First and last for human society
Who are we: material, matter,mother, myth?
History in reverse, what we knew we have lost.
Link for previous post, self-sufficient
Believable approachable example of self-sufficiency in food.
Trump move, not likely but possible
Gadens require gardening. Are we up for it?
Why avoid histories of past collapse?
Politics is stuck on what to do about climate
why "social sciences" rather than "social narrativesæ?
The tsunami of climate change is here.
Is it possible to mobilize large bureaucracies?
Bureaucracy and climate: what went wrong?
Climate coping and bureaucracy
Unchristian Christians when we need them.
Meanwhile, how I am trying to think.
which horse to ride? Cut CO2 or maintain tech innovation?
Helpful negatives; Lack of compassion
Human population up, most species down
Timing of climate change and timing of response
Lifeboat strategy as needed logistics.
Cultures and civilizations are leverage points following Archimedies
Authority, authoritarian, and climate
Why large institutions are needed to deal with climate.
Climate and the agency of religions.
Climate and the agency of religions.
Formulaic misleading language about climate
Rough poem. (can less rough do?)
Two futures, cutting to the quick
Scan traditional and marginal thinking.
Time and climate says Shakespeare
suburban eden - small steps can get us there
Thoughts in season: future now. Art from the plague of 1350
Theproblem of integrating human cycles with ecological cycles. Different speeds...
How did too much CO2 come to be?
New categories for thinking about climate
Farms vs. gardens. Grow people and food.
An example of the miss use of investment
Lots of cut use talk but at the whole systems level
Food and people: producers and consumers
Apologies for the long break in posting
New perspective, total ecology
Climate change is well understood but what to do and how hard it is is not.
Replacing food with solar panels
Paddling your community's lifeboat
partial analysis avoids the social
The hard and soft science sides of climate thinking.
More on Baltimore bridge and harbor: impact similar to climate heating?
Can we cut fossil fuel delivery?
Climate effects to mirror bridge collapse?
Money, capital, property, private, ownership
New culture of junk repurposed
Culture contrasts with government
A culture of giving and receiving in the midst of collapse
Back from Malaysia, problem with the mainstream US press
why are so many not provoked by facts??
Hockey sticks dance together, why isnt population ackowledged the result of foassil fuel use ?
Johan Rockstrom and othe public spirited honest analysts
One question, who, what, when?
what new softwware is telling us about climate change.
Once again point the finger at capitalism
Examples of extreme Gardenworlds and hints at what is to come.
Climate approach and advertizing,
several thoughts on the climate discussion
Opium and oil: we stopped the first
The material side of climate discussions
Earthquake preparation, but no climate preparation yet.
Important source for Gardenworld - The Arts and Crafts Movement.
Misleading approaches to climate.
ownership and poverty as we enter big events.
what might happen - one sequence
Leadership and the corruption of employees.
leadership problems in a dysfunctional system
Limited economics creates zones of mischief
looking at psychology to better understand climate and power
Aristotle and more comprehensive economics
More on the difficulty of writing about climate.
food crisis and lifeboat strategy
From now to Gardenworlds to lifeboats: shifting strategies