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Purpose:
Globally we are eroding topsoil at a rate of 13 to 40 times faster than new soil is being produced (Pimentel and Kounang, Ecosystems1998). We are losing species diversity at a rate of approximately 10,000 species per year. If species diversity is the mechanism nature evolved to control erosion, then we are certainly not sustainable.
Our national economies are founded on the institution of debt ( Michael Rowbotham, 1998), yet we exploit the notion of national debt to legitimize economic growth. On top of that there is approximately only 70 years of oil left in the ground, which is the primary source of energy that sustains our industrial growth activities. Most of this now requires more energy to extract than it yields (http://dieoff.com/page1.htm). It is less than one lifetime's worth. Yet to sustain our economic growth we must produce larger and more fuel consumptive vehicles, discount biotic resources and further alienate people with technology.
While we run species to extinction that we know hold many keys to our own survival, we ironically, burn, as fast as possible, the same material, oil, that is necessary to synthesize the various medicines, cosmetics and other chemicals that are so important to our success in lieu of nature. We will soon no longer be able to procure many of these items anywhere. Diverting biomass to replace this resource renders us even less sustainable.
In addition to the above problems of over production, under consumption, regression to pre-civil social behavior and the consequent ecological annihilation, our national economic strategies are counterproductive as well. Our fiscal system finances environmental depredation while it punishes constructive human activities ( David Roodman, 1998). Today we are in the midst of a massive speculation market that further discounts constructive human activities (Edward Chancellor, 1999). It will crash, as soon as the middle class is adequately subordinated in its role as greed mediator. It is simply a matter of when.
To preserve our cultural ideology, which is regularly and fallaciously confounded with, economy, we continuously resort to militarism, and now financial subjugation. This however, will never actually help our economy. It simply helps the rich and enables the government to forward the bill to the future, through the exacerbation of debt, which ideologically legitimizes economic growth and increasing human impact on the biosphere.
This web site contains the sort of suggestions that are forward thinking. As human beings, we adapt to our world thousands of times faster than biological evolution can occur through the modification of culture. It is safe to say that we are in trouble again, and a cultural shift is in order. If this is a fight or flight situation, this time, we need to flee rather than physically defend our cultural ideals. The ideas in this page differ significantly from those one would typically expect, such as those that insist upon an authoritarian solution. In fact, it is the need to legitimize authority that has brought us much of our trouble.
Do not expect anarchy either, though, since the naturally sustainable population of the planet is about 300 million, tops, and we have six billions. That is 20 times what anarchy can cope with. We require a new form of authority to assist us in the coordination of our efforts at survival. Authority must, however, actually contribute to this effort, not simply to exacerbate the problems by financing unsustainable exploitation on the one hand and promulgating ostensible, yet magnitudes under-implemented, solutions to validate their authority on the other. The proportions need reversing.
What is in this page are ideas that may or may not have merit. None have been investigated, due to a lack of institutional fealty. The focus is on the preservation of macroscopic life on planet earth, which includes us humans. The most significant paper is that found under phonology , which discusses the coordinating mechanism of human culture, language, and how it works to create civilizations. If this idea is correct, there are 400 million billion billion possible civil strategies. We have been stuck withonly one for the past two or three thousand years, a tragic waste of human potential.
All of the papers listed below have some potential to contribute to the project of human civil sustainability, without the need of increased authoritarianism, or war. War and aggression are not human instincts, they are learned responses which obviate real solutions to the frustration that incites them. An inspection of the human physical form readily reveals that we are parasympathetic beings, that is, we evolved to use primarily our brains and our legs to adapt to our environs. Our hands are evolved for precision work and are not clawed paws for fighting and killing. We are a problem-solving animal we can anticipate outcomes and avoid catastrophes. We need not cause them.
In many top predator populations such as Grizzly bears, Tigers, and Lions, there is often an exceptionally large and murderous individual who kills members of his own species. This is the only mechanism a top predator has to control its population other than starvation. Human beings tend to act similarly during war, but this is not an acceptable behavior in humans. We have the capacity to anticipate the outcomes of our actions. This ability serves the same purpose as war, but, as in preventative medicine, it must be exercised if it is to work. This website is a warm-up for some of those exercises.
"Socialism is, essentially, the tendency inherent in an industrial civilization to transcend the self-regulating market by consciously subordinating it to a democratic society." P 234
"The fascist solution of the impasse reached by liberal capitalism can be described as a reform of market economy achieved at the price of the extirpating of all democratic institutions, both in the industrial and in the political realm." P 237. Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation", 1944.
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ECOSYSTEMS:
The failure of science to influence government and industry in the realm of ecology, other than to inspire "Greenwashing" is primarily a consequence of the inability of ecologists, biologists, and the diversity of specialists to characterize what is meant by the term "Ecosystem". As a chemist interested in this question I undertook the hobby of searching for a working model of an ecosystem which 1). Preserves the notion that species diversity is important, and 2). Satisfies the intuitive paradigm for what constitutes an ecosystem. I began by searching for an extant characterization. Failing to find a consistent theory, I started looking for a commonality that is ubiquitous in all systems intuitively characterized as ecosystems. This universal commonality I found turned out to be one of the simplest and most ubiquitous principals in chemistry, and also recognized agriculturally but never applied to ecosystems, mass balance.
Contrary to the limiting element theories, which are ultimately anthropocentric and grounded in an unrequited exploitational basis, a mass balance theory finds an ecosystem to be limited by all elements, not just one or two. An ecosystem, is an assemblage of species evolved to maximize its long-term viability and vitality, using diversity to interface with the lowest energy nutrient profiles, yet covering the widest range of elements.
Mass balance is maintained, I assert, through the use of chemical communication. From this perspective, the alienation of the human species from the biosphere is readily accomplished by exploiting our poorly developed sense of olfactory perception. There is little or no research in any of the areas pertinent to my hypothesis, it can not immediately be proven. I did manage to find enough hard data to at least justify my conclusions and a lot of soft data, such as traditional companion plant relationships, that supports them. More recently I have been generating my own data from species comprising an urban ecosystem. Go to Theory Click on the link to read the thesis.
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PHONOLOGY:
The reason I needed to characterize an ecosystem is that I figured out exactly how culture is the product of language and what linguistic commonality forms the basis of western civilization... the alphabet. The idea sounds preposterous, but animals without culture or schooling, still know what their characteristic communicative sounds refer to, why would it be different for us? The basic units of speech, I contend, contain meanings. Words are a form of mental shorthand for efficient utilization of higher concepts. Having learned how to interpret the meaning of the alphabetic "civil template" I learned exactly how western civilization inspires the elimination of biological sustainability. It is not a crime against humanity to advocate a new alphabetic order. In fact the rationality underscoring the alphabet indicates it is a crime NOT to advocate a new alphabetic order. So for the past five years, I have attempted to put together the most cogent phonemic ordering of alphabetic letters possible, which correlates with modern thought as regards planetary existence. Sort of genetic engineering civilization to fit nature instead of the other way around (since science has no clue as to what they are doing!). I like to think of it a s "A NEW WORLD ORDER". Click on this link to read the thesis. I am also working on a manuscript that goes into a technical proof of this hypothesis, the details of which are not included at this site. If you are interested whether or not this is a valid hypothesis, send me a short e-mail. If I get enough of them it will help me persuade a publisher to publish the manuscript.
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BITHEISM
Westernism is the essence of ideology, as the civil form is entirely a discussion about the ideal, or perfection, and humanity's induced quest to attain it. Sorry, not here! Within a gravitational field, perfection and ideality are unattainable concepts, the statistical distribution is the law. Out in space is another question. Out is space, actually is where idealists belong. Instead, since 1981 I have been messing with a 2 wave theory of matter, which legitimates a religious basis consisting of two equally potent deities, one Feminine, one Masculine. If you read the Phonology paper you can see that with the civil form, anyone with an abberant view can be perceived as the idealist, even if their methods are superior to those inherent in the civil template. This perception arises as a consequence of going against the current of popularity and as a result of the civilization projecting it's own weaknesses on the abberant individual, as the scapegoat. We must recognize that human culture can change thousands of times faster than biological evolution, because it must.: Go To Bitheism . Click on the link to read the thesis.
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BLUE ECONOMICS
One of the problems with the transition to a sustainable form of capitalism within the confines of Western civilization is our neglect of the mineral essentials that form the basis of the biosphere's ability to produce phytomass in any form. Barring the transition to an entirely different civil form, as suggested above, there is always the possibility to implement a second, parallel economic systems along side the extant one. This system would enable the accounting for the mineral potential of the world's biosphere, and regulate the extraction of energetic value in a manner that can be readily calculated for, eliminating the preponderance of guesswork on both sides of the fence. The benefit to biodiversity, sustainability, global economics, and human life is immeasurable compared with no system of this sort at all. Go To Blue Economics . Click on the link to read the thesis.
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BIRD PHOTOS:
Every spring thousands of birds migrate through the city of Milwaukee. It is one of the best spots in the Midwest to view a large number of species. Obviously the Mississippi River is a much more important migratory route. The difference is that many of the birds stop here to feed on riparian insects in order to complete their journeys. While the Mississippi is a migratory flyway, Milwaukee is a migratory corridor. For the past ten to twenty thousand years, excluding the past hundred or so, Milwaukee was a large marshland. The largest wild rice field in the world. Both insectivorous and seed eating birds stop here during migration to eat and rest. It gets more and more difficult every year though. Especially since development interest coupled with all the "New Urbanist" idealism is insistent upon eliminating all aspects of actual nature that occur in or near the city (exactly why everyone leaves the city and causes urban sprawl???). Check out what we are responsible for killing... More BirdPics
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