Archive | March, 2010
What works: 98.6 degrees
Along with securing potable water and edible food, any strategy for thriving during the post-carbon era will include maintaining body temperature at about 98.6 F (if you speak Celsius, that’s 37 C). There are several ways to accomplish this goal, even if you spend most of your time traveling. In this essay, I will describe [...]
Continue reading...What works: food
26. March 2010
As I described in my prior post, water is a big deal for humans, as it is for all life on Earth. But food is pretty important, too. Currently, most Americans store large quantities of food in the form of body fat. The primary storage facility for unconsumed food is right down the street, in [...]
Continue reading...What works: water
24. March 2010
Securing a potable supply of water is fundamental to life, including human life. Human members of industrialized societies have grown accustomed to water delivery in every home. Contrary to a vast majority of the human experience, we simply take for granted water coming out every tap when we turn the handle. Adding to the absurdity, [...]
Continue reading...What works: Caveats for a series of essays
15. March 2010
My next few essays will concentrate on the cardinal elements of survival: water, food, body temperature, and community. Unless and until we secure these four entities, we will not survive. At the mud hut, our goal is not merely survival. We intend to thrive during the post-carbon era. We relish the opportunity to see the [...]
Continue reading...Going back to the land in the Age of Entitlement
8. March 2010
This essay is rife with the type of self-indulgence I try to avoid, often unsuccessfully. It’s a summary of my life’s story. It begins by insulting the readers, before the end of this first paragraph, and it ends with an unavoidably maundering, self-absorbed synopsis of recent, personal events. I doubt it’s worth your time to [...]
Continue reading...Throwing off the shackles of debt
1. March 2010
by Guy R. McPherson, Keith Farnish, Dave Pollard, and Sharon Astyk Indebtedness is a form of servitude, usually involuntary, and, in extreme cases imprisonment. Consider, for example, current rates of interest, usurious compared to what savers earn on their savings in the same banks that charge that interest. Many religious organizations loath interest rates as [...]
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30. March 2010
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