Alfons
Way of the future
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6008
http://www.resalliance.org/
Anyone know anything about this stuff? Are these respected theories?
My dad sent me this article. He's a very concious environmentalist, but all within the current framework (ngo work, protesting, letter writing, trying to have a green house hold, driving a prius etc). I enjoy getting him riled up about environmentalism and send him Björn Lomborg/Michael Chrichton type stuff all the time, so he sends me stuff like this back.
I like the idea of interconnected systems of various scales, and the idea of a disaster striking them when they are all at there least resillient stage makes sense, but I think the analogy is transferred onto human society and the global economy a bit to hastily in this article. The "holland-times-10" quote is also hillarious.
Thoughts?
http://www.resalliance.org/
Anyone know anything about this stuff? Are these respected theories?
My dad sent me this article. He's a very concious environmentalist, but all within the current framework (ngo work, protesting, letter writing, trying to have a green house hold, driving a prius etc). I enjoy getting him riled up about environmentalism and send him Björn Lomborg/Michael Chrichton type stuff all the time, so he sends me stuff like this back.
I like the idea of interconnected systems of various scales, and the idea of a disaster striking them when they are all at there least resillient stage makes sense, but I think the analogy is transferred onto human society and the global economy a bit to hastily in this article. The "holland-times-10" quote is also hillarious.
Thoughts?