Leaving Paradise in a Suburban Utility Vehicle
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Global Warming | No Comments »The social order of energy can be divided into component sectors like transportation, housing, machinery (including tools and gadgets), energy manufacturing. Each sector has its own order of suppliers and users, its own technology, its own culture and social ...
Cool It.
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Invention, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »We want to stop and reverse the global warming trend. Our knowledge is limited, there is a risk with any decision, but our scientists, on strong evidence, support this way. The politics of freeing ourselves from the threats of the ...
A Long Slog to the End of Global Warming
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in The People, Sociology of Group, Global Warming, Mass Movements, Ideology | No Comments »There is no individual resolution of the global warming crisis. One person turning down the thermostat in an unused room is not enough. It is a case of hang together or burn separately. Man's effect on the heating pattern ...
Warming Up
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in The People, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Think of global warming as an uncontrolled fire that is growing. The scientists have sounded the alarm. Now we only need our engineers acting as our fire department consultants to deploy a technical response. We, the people, in ...
Benign Mass Movement Ready to Go
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Concepts, Cadre, Cadre Functions, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Mass movement: The parallel acceptance of a concept by numerous persons as a basis for action. For example: (1) When we link tobacco with cancer we give up tobacco. (2) A military attack on a city and ...
Opinion. My Two Cents Worth on the World-Wide Anti-Fossil-Fuel Project.
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Critique, Invention, Global Warming | No Comments »In transportation any saving on the weight to be moved can be converted through a saving in power to a saving in amount of fossil fuel used. Bring the weight down enough and you can drop the fossil fuel and ...
The People and Global Warming
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Global Warming | 2 Comments »Unanticipated consequences (the wild joker of functionalism in sociology) emerged after decades of happy service for both tobacco and fossil fuels. These goods were revealed finally as stark threats to the well being of our species. Their use ...
The Global Hots. A Speculation
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »The ultimate threat is that we all die in short order and our species follows the dinosaurs into unlamented oblivion. The negative vectors come from every and all directions--microbial, chemical, the physical environment, explosive militant ideologies, ...