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Welcome to the Year 10,000
The blogs on this website are background material for this paper written for the Degrowth & ISEE Joint Conference...
Introduction to Website
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the...
Blog #1 The next logical and inevitable step – a steady-state economy
Many believe it is impossible to drastically and fundamentally change our current economic system. If you are thinking...
Blog #2 Escaping our old ways of thinking
The problem with effectively transforming an economic system was best expressed by the preeminent economist John...
Blog #3 (Part 1 of 3 on G.I.) Guaranteed Incomes will not make people lazy.
(Part 1) A guaranteed income (GI) will not make people lazy:As described in this blog’s opening paper written for the...
Blog #4 (Part 2 of 3 on G.I.) More benefits of a guaranteed income and the fear of a Nanny State
More benefits of a guaranteed income (GI): What follows is a number of other ways a guaranteed income will benefit...
Blog #5 (Part 3 of 3 on G.I.) People still have to pay their dues
The opening paper of this blog began with the assertion that a steady state economy is not a nanny state, socialism,...
Blog #6 Understanding ourselves as part of history – finding objectivity
It’s been said that to change any fundamental aspect of a civilization for the good we have to ‘change people’s...
Blog #7 Pavlovian conditioning: 56
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian psychologist working in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is mostly remembered as the...
Blog #8 (Overview of five parts) Chapter 5: Subtle mindsets which are even more insidious: 59
So far my blogs have shown how our world has been polarized into what have been referred to as tribes, where ideas are...
Blog #9 (Part 1 of 5) We humans have outstripped our biology: 60
A) We humans have outstripped our biology: (This is an enlarged explanation of Blog 8, Idea 1) Since life began on...
Blog #10 (Part 2 of 5) We live in a world where planning extends to only months and years. The answer, HUMANITY 10,000: 65
B) We live in a world where planning extends to only months and years: (Spoiler alert: The answer, HUMANITY 10,000)...
Blog #11 (Part 3 of 5) Inventions – for good or ill: 68
C) Inventions - for good or for ill: Ponder this: Every invention we humans have ever created has allowed our...
Blog #12 (Part 4 of 5) The concept of rewards: 70
D) The concept of rewards: If you are a “Big C” conservative you’re probably thinking the writing is about to go all...
Blog #13 (Part 5 of 5) Most people believe money is real: 72
E) Most people believe money is real: I personally believe that money is among the greatest of human inventions. As...
Blog #14 Reimagining Taxes
As mentioned in the opening paper and elsewhere in these writings, taxes of all kinds are levied by governments upon...
Blog #15 Introduction to: The Steady-State Population, (Blog 1 of 9 on Population)
In previous blogs I’ve declared the only way human beings can survive the next ten millennium is to maintain a healthy...
Blog # 16 Star Trek vs. Dystopia: (Blog 2 of 9 on Population)
Besides religion and self-interest as arguments against my thesis of needing to describe a practical steady-state...
Blog #17POP go the numbers! (Blog 3 of 9 on Population)
What follows is a graph of human population for the past 12,000 years. It hopefully brings home how humans truly have...
Blog #18Look Ma, I’m a biological response! (Blog 4 of 9 on Population)
Scientists have ascertained that humans evolved into our present humanoid form about 200,000 years ago. It then took...
Blog #19 How few humans does there really need to be? (Blog 5 of 9 on Population)
I have something for you to consider that I don’t think has been looked at this way before. It has to do with how few...
Blog #20 Population Dynamics – Total Fertility Rates and Replacement Rates: (Blog 6 of 9 on Population)
When talking about the number of births in a country and even planet wide, statisticians and scientists refer to what...
Blog #21 How long would it take to get below one BILLION humans on the planet? (Blog 7 of 9 on Population)
Presently there are 7.5 BILLION people whirling through the cosmos on Space-Ship Earth. And even though the population...
Blog #22 How much food do we need? (Blog 8 of 9 on Population)
Food and the land it takes to produce it is a subject I’m only going to talk briefly about. Although it’s incredibly...
Blog #23 We must stop treating soil like dirt! (Blog 9 of 9 on Population)
As for how much land we’re talking about, here’s a list of a few basic facts and numbers about land use. Again, it’s...
Blog #24 Introduction to Alternative Currencies: (Blog 1 of 2 on Alternative Currencies)
This is a very abridged version of the alternative currency blogs I have planned. Since it’s currently being put...
Blog #25 Time banks and the capitalization of volunteers: (2 of 2, on Alternative Currencies)
Somewhere around 30% of first-world citizens volunteer their time to any number of good causes. Canadian government...