Five minutes of pure sanity
I can’t recall how I came across this wise Professor but it was in recent times. Not going to say any more at this stage. Just watch the following.
There will be more from David Ehrenfeld over the coming weeks.
Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.
David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978
Learning from Dogs 
Thank you so much for this, and for the many other vibrant thinkers you introduce through your blog… your range of research is exquisite.
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Thanks Carmel.
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I concur about Paul finding the vibrant and wise. This gentleman ought to be listened to by US citizens. Now what about a 15% AVT and 5 dollar a gallon tax. For starters?
Americans talk, while the world sinks. Why? because they are in the upper cabin, and the cold, dark waters of reality have not made it up there yet. (Although Obama was pretty courageous, and realistic, to join the Sarko-Cameron train on Libya. Or shall I call it something else?)
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Thanks Patrice, as always. I totally agree. Indeed there is a notion in my mind, that I am writing more fully about, in private at the moment, that we could be in the grip of The Perfect Storm. A nightmare across many ‘western’ nations resulting from the failure of governments to tackle either the core economic or environmental issues, and the electorates of these nations only waking up to those cold, dark waters too late in the day.
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Going Fukushima:
Paul, thanks to you too, you do a splendid job. I hope many read your blog while so many other blogs spin their wheels in the sand.
It is a perfect planetary storm. The grotesque show at Fukushima is exemplary. In a way, the entire planet is going Fukushima: a perfectly avoidable disaster, thus courted as much as possible, with total disregard for basic evidence and logic.
Apparently all Japanese nuclear reactors are easily accessible by tsunami. Same in California, but, at least, Californians have only 4 reactors, and do not know what the word tsunami means…
The closest back-up mobile generators from GE for its Fukushima plant were apparently in Florida.
Tsunami defense at Fukushima consisted of a natural 5.5 meter bluff; unsurprisingly, the tsunami was 14 meters. However, the tsunami wave reached a height of 42 meters in other places, and that is standard for the Richter 9, subduction quakes which bristle around the Pacific rim. There was an 8.8 Richer in Chili, on the same plate, less than a year before. The 1960 quake in Chili was 9.6 Richter, with a various lethal foreshocks, including an 8.2 Richter quake. In California, the San Onofre nuclear reactors are on the beach, waiting for the tsunami (which will happen, all the more since it did not happen for a long time; the preceding giant tsunami at Fukushima was in the Ninth Century).
This what reality is made of. If the 42 meter wave had hit Fukushima, the six (6) reactors would have melted down and exploded right away.
Can we have such a large scale catastrophe, on a world scale? Of course. everybody knows it, it’s Global Heating. OK, warming at this point, and the frogs are happy. But that has various consequences, including nuclear war. Global Heating is not just about quickly rising acid seas and desertification.
PA
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Patrice, once again, many thanks for your generous comments.
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