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torsdag 15 november 2012
måndag 8 augusti 2011
Peak Oil: Globalisation and the Economy
Lots of focus right now on the financial markets, Central bank intervention ect. The real McCoy however is in fact limits, not in the financial world, thus financial measures cannot really solve the problem as were just throwing good money on bad and thus escalate the capital destruction process further. Instead there are actual limitations in the real world that in a very uncompromising way dictate our future.
What actually is needed now is to totally and completely forget about the financial markets as they have show to be absolutely dysfunctional in any way you see it in terms of providing good real investments, real pricing mechanisms and efficient recourse allocation.
In fact the financial as well as monetary system as we know it today is nothing but a mirage. Fine if you want to invest and speculate in a mirage but then be prepared it will at one point be taken away from you - completely.
Rather than discussing how to now try to in more and more acute manners fix what in reality is broken we need to focus on how we should use our money (what’s left of it) in order to invest in new infrastructure in the real world as the post oil era now has begun.
Jeffrubin - 3 minutes on the effects of Peak oil to Globalisation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjYQyMfqIY
Peak Oil and Economic Contraction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHjxJ4MhNM&NR=1
Fatih Birol (IEA) interview (Catalyst - Oil Crunch, ABC TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkISqOCnVA&feature=related
One example would be how to produce our food by rediscovering the photosynthesis and natural inputs like e.g. rain rather than tractors, plowing and pumping up ground water. As an added benefit nature then will be gradually healed and brought back to a sustainable system.
The Amazing Benefits of Grass-fed Meat
Converting cropland to perennial pastures produces healthier meat, builds better soil and combats climate change
Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Grass-Fed-Meat-Benefits.aspx#ixzz1UQ0ZZVmw
Its in fact not only Peak Oil that will dictate our future, we have depletion of Ground Water as highly efficient diesel engines and drilling techniques allow for more water deeper down in the earth crest further down to be exploited, we also have an alarmin situation regarding sweet water were all natural sweet wates lakes world wide dissapears at an alarming pacee, we have world vide Top Soil depletion as more and more efficient agricultural methods makes the soil vulnerable for wind and the sun as well as less and less nutritional, we have soon depleted most fish in the oceans so that the fishing industry in fact will have gone extins as we know it within already a 40 years period.
These are just a few examples on how the real world to a larger extent from now on will dictate the type of world we live in and that regardless of what interventions are made by central banks and what happens in the financial system.
Topsoil depletion has been the cause for the demise of many great civilizations. It is believed, for example, that the Sumerian civilization was partly destroyed because of desertification due to topsoil depletion.
To end this on a more positive side - imagine all nature in the Middle East, the Fertile Crescent (where agriculture actually began) and all around the Mediterranean restructured back to its original state. That then would be a real and profound positive environmental impact of epic proportions.
Britain facing food crisis as world's soil 'vanishes in 60 years'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/6828878/Britain-facing-food-crisis-as-worlds-soil-vanishes-in-60-years.html
Fresh Water: More Precious Than Oil
http://www.whole-systems.org/water.html
Black based his statement on a 2006 study that was published in Science that predicts a “global collapse” of ocean biodiversity due to overfishing; all species currently fished, they said, would be gone by 2048.
http://www.canadaandtheworld.com/marinelifedisappearing.html
In any case Peak Oil sure will take care of all of these problems by itself. With no oil farming will not be dependent on big machinery, tilling, with no oil boats will not be able to go out on insustrialised scale deep sea fishing endevours, and will less energy disel engines will not be able to either drill nore pump upp water from deep down in the earth. That way nature sure will mend it self. Only question then is how we humans will be able to adjust then and if were able to do it in time?
George Carlin on The Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
What actually is needed now is to totally and completely forget about the financial markets as they have show to be absolutely dysfunctional in any way you see it in terms of providing good real investments, real pricing mechanisms and efficient recourse allocation.
In fact the financial as well as monetary system as we know it today is nothing but a mirage. Fine if you want to invest and speculate in a mirage but then be prepared it will at one point be taken away from you - completely.
Rather than discussing how to now try to in more and more acute manners fix what in reality is broken we need to focus on how we should use our money (what’s left of it) in order to invest in new infrastructure in the real world as the post oil era now has begun.
Jeffrubin - 3 minutes on the effects of Peak oil to Globalisation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjYQyMfqIY
Peak Oil and Economic Contraction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHjxJ4MhNM&NR=1
Fatih Birol (IEA) interview (Catalyst - Oil Crunch, ABC TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkISqOCnVA&feature=related
One example would be how to produce our food by rediscovering the photosynthesis and natural inputs like e.g. rain rather than tractors, plowing and pumping up ground water. As an added benefit nature then will be gradually healed and brought back to a sustainable system.
The Amazing Benefits of Grass-fed Meat
Converting cropland to perennial pastures produces healthier meat, builds better soil and combats climate change
Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Grass-Fed-Meat-Benefits.aspx#ixzz1UQ0ZZVmw
Its in fact not only Peak Oil that will dictate our future, we have depletion of Ground Water as highly efficient diesel engines and drilling techniques allow for more water deeper down in the earth crest further down to be exploited, we also have an alarmin situation regarding sweet water were all natural sweet wates lakes world wide dissapears at an alarming pacee, we have world vide Top Soil depletion as more and more efficient agricultural methods makes the soil vulnerable for wind and the sun as well as less and less nutritional, we have soon depleted most fish in the oceans so that the fishing industry in fact will have gone extins as we know it within already a 40 years period.
These are just a few examples on how the real world to a larger extent from now on will dictate the type of world we live in and that regardless of what interventions are made by central banks and what happens in the financial system.
Topsoil depletion has been the cause for the demise of many great civilizations. It is believed, for example, that the Sumerian civilization was partly destroyed because of desertification due to topsoil depletion.
To end this on a more positive side - imagine all nature in the Middle East, the Fertile Crescent (where agriculture actually began) and all around the Mediterranean restructured back to its original state. That then would be a real and profound positive environmental impact of epic proportions.
Britain facing food crisis as world's soil 'vanishes in 60 years'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/6828878/Britain-facing-food-crisis-as-worlds-soil-vanishes-in-60-years.html
Fresh Water: More Precious Than Oil
http://www.whole-systems.org/water.html
Black based his statement on a 2006 study that was published in Science that predicts a “global collapse” of ocean biodiversity due to overfishing; all species currently fished, they said, would be gone by 2048.
http://www.canadaandtheworld.com/marinelifedisappearing.html
In any case Peak Oil sure will take care of all of these problems by itself. With no oil farming will not be dependent on big machinery, tilling, with no oil boats will not be able to go out on insustrialised scale deep sea fishing endevours, and will less energy disel engines will not be able to either drill nore pump upp water from deep down in the earth. That way nature sure will mend it self. Only question then is how we humans will be able to adjust then and if were able to do it in time?
George Carlin on The Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
söndag 20 februari 2011
Sustainable water and food
Brad Lancaster talks about his evolution into rainwater harvesting, and the current state of our freshwater resources. Filmed at Santa Barbara City College Lifescape Garden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQ-FBAmvBw&feature=related
Girja Sharan, a Hydrolic engeneer finds a way of solving the drinking water crisi with condensation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJJh3AQ_u6U&feature=related
Turning air into water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqCyAe_ClM&feature=related
Grazing at Joe Salatins Pholypace Farm”
"The simplest way to capture the sun’s energy in a form food animals can use is by growing grass: “These blades are our photovoltaic panels,” Joel says. And the most efficient – if not the simplest – way to grow vast quantities of solar panels is by management-intensive grazing, a method that as its name implies relies more heavily on the farmer’s brain than on capital – or energy intensive inputs. All you need, in fact, is some portable electric fencing, a willingness to move your livestock on to fresh pasture every day.”
”The imporant thing to know about any grass is that its growth follows a sigmoid, or S , curve, Joel explained. He grabbed my pen and notebook and began drawing a graph, based on the one that appears in Voisin’s book. “This vertical axis here is the height of our grass plant, okay? And the horizontal axis is time: The number of days since this paddock was last grazed.” He started tracing a big S on the page, beginning in the lower left-hand corner where the axis met. “See, the growth starts out real slow like this, but then after a few days it begins to zoom. That’s called the “the blaze of growth”, when the grass has recovered from the first bite, rebuilt it’s reserves and root mass, and really taken off. But after a while”- the curve leveled out and around day fourteen or so-“it slows down again, and the grass gets ready to flower and seed. It’s entering a period of senescence, when the grass begins to lignify (get woody) and becomes less platable to the cow. “What you want to do is graze pasture right at this point here “- he tapped my pad sharply-“ at the very top of the blaze of growth. But what you never, ever want to do is to violate the law of the second bite. You can’t let your cows take a second bite of grass before it has had a chance to fully recover”.
“Management intensive it is. Joel is constantly updating the spreadsheet he keeps in his head to track the precise stage of growth the farm’s several dozen paddocks, which range in size from one to five acres, depending on the season and the weather. The amount of time it takes a paddock to recover is constantly changing, depending on temperature, rainfall, exposure to the sun, time of year, as does the amount of forage any given cow requires, depending on its size, age, and stage of life: a lactating cow, for example, eats twice as much grass as a dry one.
As destructive as overgrazing can be to a pasture, under grazing can be almost as damaging, since it leads to just right – grazing the optimal number of cattle at the optimal moment to exploit “the blaze of growth “ yields tremendous amounts of grass, all the while improving the quality of the land. Joel calls his this optimal grazing rhythm “pulsing the pastures” and says that at Polyface it has boosted the number of cow days to as much as four hundred per acre; the county average is seventy. “In effect we’ve bought a whole new farm for the price of some portable fencing and a lot of management”.
Sissy Farmer (Joel Salatin on Forgiveness)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOYn6RjCLY&feature=related
The above quotes about Joel Salatin are taken from the book below:
The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat [Paperback]
Michael Pollan
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Converting cropland to perennial pastures produces healthier meat, builds better soil and combats climate change
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Grass-Fed-Meat-Benefits.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQ-FBAmvBw&feature=related
Girja Sharan, a Hydrolic engeneer finds a way of solving the drinking water crisi with condensation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJJh3AQ_u6U&feature=related
Turning air into water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqCyAe_ClM&feature=related
Grazing at Joe Salatins Pholypace Farm”
"The simplest way to capture the sun’s energy in a form food animals can use is by growing grass: “These blades are our photovoltaic panels,” Joel says. And the most efficient – if not the simplest – way to grow vast quantities of solar panels is by management-intensive grazing, a method that as its name implies relies more heavily on the farmer’s brain than on capital – or energy intensive inputs. All you need, in fact, is some portable electric fencing, a willingness to move your livestock on to fresh pasture every day.”
”The imporant thing to know about any grass is that its growth follows a sigmoid, or S , curve, Joel explained. He grabbed my pen and notebook and began drawing a graph, based on the one that appears in Voisin’s book. “This vertical axis here is the height of our grass plant, okay? And the horizontal axis is time: The number of days since this paddock was last grazed.” He started tracing a big S on the page, beginning in the lower left-hand corner where the axis met. “See, the growth starts out real slow like this, but then after a few days it begins to zoom. That’s called the “the blaze of growth”, when the grass has recovered from the first bite, rebuilt it’s reserves and root mass, and really taken off. But after a while”- the curve leveled out and around day fourteen or so-“it slows down again, and the grass gets ready to flower and seed. It’s entering a period of senescence, when the grass begins to lignify (get woody) and becomes less platable to the cow. “What you want to do is graze pasture right at this point here “- he tapped my pad sharply-“ at the very top of the blaze of growth. But what you never, ever want to do is to violate the law of the second bite. You can’t let your cows take a second bite of grass before it has had a chance to fully recover”.
“Management intensive it is. Joel is constantly updating the spreadsheet he keeps in his head to track the precise stage of growth the farm’s several dozen paddocks, which range in size from one to five acres, depending on the season and the weather. The amount of time it takes a paddock to recover is constantly changing, depending on temperature, rainfall, exposure to the sun, time of year, as does the amount of forage any given cow requires, depending on its size, age, and stage of life: a lactating cow, for example, eats twice as much grass as a dry one.
As destructive as overgrazing can be to a pasture, under grazing can be almost as damaging, since it leads to just right – grazing the optimal number of cattle at the optimal moment to exploit “the blaze of growth “ yields tremendous amounts of grass, all the while improving the quality of the land. Joel calls his this optimal grazing rhythm “pulsing the pastures” and says that at Polyface it has boosted the number of cow days to as much as four hundred per acre; the county average is seventy. “In effect we’ve bought a whole new farm for the price of some portable fencing and a lot of management”.
Sissy Farmer (Joel Salatin on Forgiveness)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOYn6RjCLY&feature=related
The above quotes about Joel Salatin are taken from the book below:
The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat [Paperback]
Michael Pollan
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Converting cropland to perennial pastures produces healthier meat, builds better soil and combats climate change
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Grass-Fed-Meat-Benefits.aspx
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