Comments for Deep Change

Comment on Stigmergy: An Introduction by Alastair McGowan

Alastair McGowan — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:17:14 +0000

Lol? Please expand your argument, I’m keen to hear your point of view.

Comment on Stigmergy: An Introduction by nause

nause — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:20:29 +0000

lol

Comment on Superlinear systems, permaculture, and Gandhi by S

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:19:59 +0000

And it’s need, not ned. The above commentator might want to get his own spellings in order before correcting the author. I doubt Gandhi would’ve cared how his name was spelt.

Comment on Superlinear systems, permaculture, and Gandhi by Anjila Sinha

Anjila Sinha — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:01:26 +0000

Please, it’s Gandhi not Ghandi. I think you ned to get this right especially in this article!

Comment on Weekday Vegetarian: A Giant Leap Forward by Pixie Mason

Pixie Mason — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:43:02 +0000

Yes, this is a great idea. Some meat and animal produce makes a healthy addition to the diet (I speak as a nutritionist) but too much can be associated with obesity, heart disease and cancer, health problems which our society is all too familar with. Livestock produce is also associated with 50% of food related GHG emissions (as well as othere environmental concerns like polution, poor animal welfare etc). But meat is a key source of some nutrients (zinc especially) and also iron, vitamin B12. Though these can be obtained from a plant food based diet, a little meat is helpful in ensuring adequate intake. So, yes, vegetarian during the week, meat at weekends – a good formula for health and the environment. Howveer, the environmental impacts of dairy should also be considered – they can be higher than those for meat.

Comment on About by Alastair McGowan

Alastair McGowan — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:42:19 +0000

Mental illness I would tend to agree tells us a lot about our social environment and our natural environment, our ecology. If the ecology is diseased then that tends to exhibit in pathological human behaviour.

Comment on The Ecological Age by Alastair McGowan

Alastair McGowan — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:56:34 +0000

By ‘experts’ I am talking about the person who, in their domain of specialism, displays a degree of resourcefulness and presence of mind to cope with almost every event thrown at them. One example I use a lot is the Apollo 11 landing – those guys practised every permutation of error they could find. Their trip to the lunar surface and back was littered with pitfalls but Armstrong et al navigated through the high-risk error paths with what I call expertise: Landing with seconds of fuel left, monitoring every possible variable and being highly situation aware, they controlled the situation. Effortful relaxed focus and practice are everywhere. Unfortunately, in my experience these real experts are rarely employed appropriately, where they are employed they tend to be employed in the wrong way – overseeing others. Those who offer their expertise in decision-making positions and consultancy, disconnected from the real-world context in which they were true experts. They are no longer experts. The true expert is not someone who can talk about surfing but someone who is out there in front of the wave aware of every sensory and cognitive input making real-time decisions controlling the situation.

Comment on The Ecological Age by Alastair McGowan

Alastair McGowan — Sat, 22 May 2010 06:45:13 +0000

I tend to agree with you on Jensen’s idea that there is no alternative. There can be a tipping point at which humanity wake’s up to its collective situation and decides to follow a different path – something non-destructive, some kind of sustainable social organisation. Human competition and conflict will always be there, but our submission to them and externalising our pain on the environment are not inevitable. Julian Simon’s thesis that human creativity, the ‘Ultimate Resource’, could find solutions – I get the impression that over the past decade some amazing seeds of a new path have and are being sown.

Comment on The Ecological Age by gregorywade

gregorywade — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:01:41 +0000

Frankly, I find Jensen to be a coward. I’ve read him. I also manage the effects commonly associated w/ Crohn’s disease, as does he. He is not a man of action but hides behind rationalizations. He advocates violence, not because he lives in openly, but because he lives in a world of his making, and cannot imagine a creative alternative.

Comment on The Ecological Age by gregorywade

gregorywade — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:54:27 +0000

I do not share you belief in “experts.” In fact, I look around and do not see these so called experts you describe.