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The work of the systems-ecologist Howard Odum presages the vicious circle principle (VCP) presented inToo Smart for Our Own Good(2009).[*]As presented in Too Smart, the VCP is as follows:
Humankind’s development consists in an accelerating movement from situations of scarcity/need, to technological innovation, to increased resource availability, to increased consumption, to population growth, to resource depletion, to scarcity once again, and so on. (p. 110)
Applying Odum’s thinking to the VCP’s interpretation of changes in the actual development/evolution of humankind suggests that with each technological revolution there has resulted an increase in the usable energy available to our species, which has in turn resulted in population growth and a subsequent demand for increasing quantities of energy. On the VCP this demand has to date generally been met (particularly since the industrial revolution and the near-exponential increase in our burning of fossil fuels), with the result that the vicious circle of humankind’s development has grown in both size and environmental impact.
A second point of contact between Odum and the VCP – related to the first – is Odum’s emphasis on system-development’s involving pulses. He applies this notion to both living and non-living systems. Among the living are ecosystems, individual human civilizations, and human civilization as a whole. In Too Smart pulsing is emphasized with regard to the human species as a whole, each turn of the circle constituting a pulse.
The pulses of the populations of non-human species tend to fluctuate about a mean (cf. Too Smart, pp. 21–22), in the case of K-selected species their growth or shrinking depending on both internal and external population checks. But, according to the VCP, in the case of the total human population these pulses have taken the form of the constantly increasing growth of the human enterprize. In each instance of humankind’s developing technology, which has taken us through the javelin, bow-and-arrow, hoe, plow, coal, and oil and natural gas phases, the problems (scarcities) have as a matter of fact in each case led to a of technological development capable of harnessing ever-greateramounts of energy from the environment, and a consequent weakening of human population checks and a growth in the human population. Here we might also note, in keeping with Tainter, that part of the vicious circle consists in the diminishing returns that eventually hit any new technology, leading to the need for its replacement.
Today
we are republishing a commentary that was posted back in January 2013.
The post is even more relevant today, as the critical issues we face as
a species are escalating almost it seems beyond control. Reports are
also being made by various LEGITIMATE groups includingNASA,UN bodies and
the White House and Pentagon. These reports are posted through-out our
affiliated blogs and may be searched by keyword . Moreover, let's not
forget too, that Stephen Hawkingssits on a committee that is actually planning "end of world events", whileThe Bank of England is
calling for a wholesale change in the dogmas of classical economics -
as the stresses of infinite growth are self-evident in so many countries
around the world. As a further result, the possibility that the EU, Japan,China and other third world nations could
financially collapse is a very real danger that could be sparked by an
abrupt climb in global interest rates. Many events at any moment could
spark this rapid rise, that would cause the greatest and most
unprecedented collapse in asset values around the world where credit and banking bubbles in real estate and market investments, exist almost everywhere - another dark age looms large on the horizon. Economics
is not the only cancer that has terminal implications. Overpopulation
and unbridled industrial destruction of the biosphere are crossing over
to theexponential phase.
Should the average global temperature rise just a mere 2 degrees C.,
some experts say we risk triggering a methane bomb that yields the same
consequences of the Permian Extinction's climate conditions - over 95%
of life on the planet was wiped out in short order.
“Paradise Lost” Paul Chefurka Many of us who have been paying attention to the state of the world over the last half century hav...
The captioned linked article has garmered a lot of traffic this week, so for your convenience it is reposted here along with our comments on the author.
In the last analysis, the second law of thermodynamics describes and explains so much of our behaviour and what reality has become and where it is headed. Since the dawn of time, to the day when eternities meet eternities it governs an existential universe.
Dr Peter G Kinesa
November 9, 2013
Paul Chefurka is definitely one of the most exciting,
brilliant and insightful thinkers of our times. His deep research and analysis
of our current predicament lead the reader of his article titled Paradise Lost to a well-reasoned and provocative conclusion. One
that is sure to stir your beliefs and outlooks for months, and years to come.
Why there is any debate about what is the primary root constraint and determinant of our journey, makes no sense at all, in our opinion. Entropy is the most pervasive defining principle of ourunderstood universe's elements and relationships. It simply interconnects all things.
Below is a brief pre-flight video documentary, released this past March, that adds further support to this universal connection string; starting from our primary survival and procreation needs, to theeconomy, to money, to oil, to energy, and then right back to entropyExcept for Ivy-League(sic) Economists and Nobel Prize Winners, these are straightforward connections that most folks can readily understand - Right?
The paradox is that the need to survive and procreate drives the entropy that ultimately creates a final heat death or a situation where no organized form of energy exists, to particularly serve our survival need, in the universe. And our survival need appears to have a deeply-embedded insatiable-thirst for energy, which in itself contradicts its initial purpose. And that's not as straightforward.
Moreover, we seem to be constantly trying to fight or usurp this second law of thermodynamics. But instead, we unknowingly act as fully obedient servants to an invisible master, by doing all that we can to accelerate the transformation of usable energy into its chaotic form, despite fully knowing where it leads us. Worse still - we do so, with reckless and perverse exponential delight! Hmm. However, there is a resultant optimistic point in all this. Insofar as, if we do not identify and understand what the critical underlying issues and constraints are - then there is little or no chance of moving towards either its better situational management or even a possible solution. Quantum Physicists, such as Vlatko Vedral, in his book Decoding Reality, sets out that there are logical possibilities beyond today's known rules of the universe. So there still remains a flicker of hope, in the painting of our darkening predicament. Whether any practical discoveries or broad applications evolve from this form of work and thought is impossible to know. But at the very least:it could yield for us a better attitude, which is a little thing - that can make all the difference! Meanwhile - Flight 2100 is departing fromGate A23
Cheers For Now! First Financial Insights On behalf of: Infinity Express Flight 2100 5 November 2013
Not since the dawn of time has one short story so deeply rocked and stirred the minds of readers worldwide. From beginning to end, it intoxicates your thoughts and senses, leaving you with just one inevitable question?
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