tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post3731710729442970218..comments2024-03-19T00:06:09.224-05:00Comments on LifeItself: Net Ecosystem Productivity is Zero on Planet Earth Tadeusz (Tad) Patzekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701598417132574218noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-24000952744895012662014-05-05T09:19:27.689-05:002014-05-05T09:19:27.689-05:00Yes, Adrienne, it is difficult to smile knowing wh...Yes, Adrienne, it is difficult to smile knowing what I know, but I smile nonetheless. I also came to a realization that our attempts to control growth of human population must fail. So things will continue to get worse around the world. Tadeusz (Tad) Patzekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701598417132574218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-41297268641807125512014-04-30T09:16:50.547-05:002014-04-30T09:16:50.547-05:00Thank you for a wonderful blog, Tad. I found your ...Thank you for a wonderful blog, Tad. I found your site while doing research for a deep ecology talk I'm giving to a local junior college class. It must be hard on you to know what you know. Thank you for sharing your data and your concerns! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350771443146010802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-52901921382238550672013-07-02T19:04:22.337-05:002013-07-02T19:04:22.337-05:00Thank you, Kountry Mouse, for reminding us about t...Thank you, Kountry Mouse, for reminding us about the spiritual element of this global tragedy. <br /><br />I will reply with a quote from the Prophet Isaiah (760-690 B.C.): "All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass withers, the flower fades..."<br /><br />And fade we will. Tadeusz (Tad) Patzekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701598417132574218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-36799036932279265672013-07-02T18:59:40.044-05:002013-07-02T18:59:40.044-05:00Dave,
Thirteen years ago, James Lovelock said: &...Dave, <br /><br />Thirteen years ago, James Lovelock said: "Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest." And that's exactly what we've been busy doing since times immemorial. Only now, the Earth can't take it anymore, so she will start shedding us.Tadeusz (Tad) Patzekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701598417132574218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-91169247051579306222013-07-02T12:49:49.304-05:002013-07-02T12:49:49.304-05:00" unimaginative, brutish humans"
and/or..." unimaginative, brutish humans"<br /><br />and/or simply, "thoughtless, clumsy" hairless apes. <br /><br />"Too-curious George discovers Fire and other Unintended Consequences: a short story..." ??/<br /><br />I think this is mostly out of our hands now - and maybe it was never "in our hands." <br /><br />All the king's horses <br />and all the king's horses' asses <br />will not get Humpty Dumpty's Giant Industrial buttocks through the keyhole, or eye of the needle, or whatever. But they will die trying.<br /><br />We are entering another bottleneck, and as you note, this one might be capped. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793397038214118285.post-86417946405515357092013-07-01T23:07:09.875-05:002013-07-01T23:07:09.875-05:00Yes, everything described going wrong is all a res...Yes, everything described going wrong is all a result of a spiritual ruination, where Earth* really represents the people on it. We are made from the Earth, dirt. This is not a futile statement. If people could be united in how to care for their home then the population growth would not be a problem. Dust and ash never goes away completely and can be regenerated given certain circumstances (God knows how to do this the best way). Greed and avarice should not be the dominant attitudes that we see today. We should be thinking about how to benefit each other and not just ourselves. By now, we should be living and were intended to live in a cornucopia of human generosity and good will.<br /><br />*(Revelation 11:18) . . .But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05772716965710252069noreply@blogger.com