The Too Much Information Problem
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, TV News Media | 2 Comments »Okay kids lets move onto one of our other blog subjects of interest. It is estimated that 1,000,000 books are written every year. And wouldn't you agree that it's next to impossible to review even the most miniscule part of the any of the scientific disciplines from the 100,000,000 ...
The Elephant in the Room
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth | No Comments »I think this is a good way to begin our 4th season of Boomer News blogs to you grandchildren. The "elephant in the room" is based on the idea that an elephant in the room would be impossible to overlook ...
Curmudgeon Review: Economic Growth
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth | 3 Comments »"The present global economy is caught in a catch-22 of its own making. Solutions exist, but the blindness that created the problem also stops the solution from being seen ... So in order to survive, the global economy is compelled ...
Why do journalist/politicians avoid graphs?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, TV News Media | No Comments »The Sustainability Revolution II Where do we begin? This is going to be a long on-going blog. Just getting started is the hard part. Grandma's father would tell our children; "If you go inch by inch it's a cinch ... if ...
The Sustainability Revolution
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, Politics, media | No Comments »Okay, family, grand kids and who ever is out there in blog land ...this is the start of a series of blogs on "The Sustainability Revolution". No one knows how to bring about such a revolution, and it is taking a long time ...
What are the Limits of Growth?
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in Limits of Growth, Politics, Priorities | No Comments »Okay kids, help your grandpa out. Is there such a thing as "unsustainable growth"? Our planet is a spaceship ... it has a fixed amount of each element. To be economically and financially healthy however, our country needs to have growth ... ...
Mother Nature will push the reset button
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Limits of Growth, media | No Comments »For over 100 years Homo sapien has been on an unsustainable exponential curve in almost every area of endeavor. The plan so far has been, wait for the bubble to burst, or wait for a crisis to occur, before trying to fix ...