Thank you very much for your reply Bruce.
I'm sorry that my critique appeared personal, it was not. I respect you Bruce, I think you are a good person.
What triggered me:
First comes Archimid (whom I respect as well) with his interpretation of "natural selection" and the implication that because I'm poor and represent the poor, when TSHTF we 'the poor' are easy targets without security and when we die en mass, that is because we are 'less fit'. He calls that natural selection. The infirm also get 'natural' selectioned. What he/she calls our 'natural' world is one of violence, oppression and low morality.
Then you added "primitives". I don't know exactly what a swipe is but I felt a strong urge to react and hold up a reality mirror; point out the basis of supremacy and priviledge. You could also call it racism based on YES/NO affluence.
explain how you would propose to feed us all without fossil fuel ?
It can't be done. We live on borrowed time. When is Earth resource day? We live on borrowed planets. Well, when I say 'we', of course I don't mean the poor consuming the resources! No, that'll be the 'winners', the rich of course. But in this system where the rich take almost everything and don't share, it is called 'natural' selection when it collapses and the poor die. With poor I mean poor in possessions, in material stuff.
It is as if accumulation is seen as a 'natural' survival force. Insane.
I personally think Aporia-filia has an enviable set-up and lives with a carbon footprint that puts most of us to shame
Great idea, let's reintroduce SHAME. A hint of morality there? Why shame?
without totally giving up on a modern lifestyle.
This is the problem.
No prepping for me.
Survival: I'm 1m70 (5Ft7); 61 Kg; Blood pressure 120/80 mmHg; Total lung capacity 8L; No pain; I can jump over the saddle of my bike and land on my feet; Very athletic; I can walk on my hands and more gymnastics; I am fast, flexible and very strong. I have a good understanding of humans. Good non-verbal interpretation of humans. My intelligence works excellent outside abstractions; outside. I live in a rural place with a stronger older culture and a different language (Frisian). I make easily contact with others. Not authoritarian.
Hardly have any possessions and therefore mobile and free. In the last couple of years I've learned to go with less and less, and now I feel quite detached from possessions.
This is not just a good preparation but the road to happiness and to live freely and nobly; see Bertrand Russel's quote at the bottom of my posts.
Carbon footprint: In order to have a clear conscience, I cannot participate in any way in the ongoing destruction. So I have to live with a carbon footprint which when multiplied by 8 billion, would not give the living world the current problems. I have no direct emissions. Zero.
Does your < 2 ton CO2 footprint feed anyone, could you feed several families if you had to without ff ? So I am calling you out, tell us about your carbon footprint and please make your description enviable.
I am not an expert but tend to look at all the humans through all of the past 5 million years. I just skip the last 250 years. Everything before that is a solution to your question. Though not ultimately sustainable I think (1000+ generations).
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But someone should spend their efforts at getting us off a dependence on fossil fuel and the 10 calories of fossil fuel burned for each food calorie produced.
I really think you are doing great experiments. I've enjoyed reading your posts and your solutions.
Dear Bruce, I feel strongly about these moral things and my language may be a bit stronger. please understand that swiping or putting someone down or whatever is absolutely not my intention.
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Neighbours and community. Unless you live like a hermit, you will have neighbours. Go out and talk to them. Build things together. Help each other out. That will be of far greater help than anything you can do on your own.
Very good. Working together, sharing. Not being selfish.
You are on the right path I think sidd. And thank you for your, what I see as, higher morailty.
edit:added sidd quote