thanks - I'm listening to her playlist now. The 14 to 1 minimum return as EROI is a fascinating concept but yes this "surplus energy" obviously has "externalities" (unaccounted costs). The "surplus energy" concept ALSO needs to be applied in a reverse manner as "global warming CO2 EQUIVALENT emissions" as the "arctic-news" blog explains. So the current 1.2 temperature increase as a global average doesn't include the arctic extreme anomalies with the "arctic amplification" - as Dr. Todd points out the Arctic is warming 4 times faster. But it's the methane bomb as a CO2 equivalent that is key.
We are at 700 Ppm already as CO2 equivalent emissions due to methane releases. The ocean inertia means it will keep releasing heat as it has absorbed 90% of the heat from global warming. So the EROI minimum just needs to be reversed. I wrote a paper on this for my "Environmental Economics" University class called "The Incorrect Supply and Demand Model" based on the book "Politics of the Solar Age" by Hazel Henderson. She wrote the book in 1988 but it's still valid - it was ahead of its time big time. haha.
"The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (2021) by John Coates, describing the disturbed psychologies of traders in London’s stock markets. Their desperate efforts to keep up with information flows, these traders and asset managers try to manage trillions of pensions for beneficiaries hoping to retire someday"
Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard went to India to document the Tibetan monks creating internal heat - they stay outside in the cold even - with hardly any clothes on. We can train to create energy internally from the future via meditation as "negative entropy."
Wim - they did a study on dogs turning around - it has to do with the magnetic field! "Dogs use the Earth's magnetic field when they're relieving themselves. Not only that, but canines choose to do so in a north-south axis, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology says." Your dog is exhibiting quantum biology negative entropy entanglement consciousness just as you are doing with your Tummo breathing. haha.
Professor Todd also didn't seem to focus on the aerosol masking effect whereas James Hansen has stating that the aerosol masking effect is the current main cause of increase in global temperatures!! So this whole idea that we can have some kind of deindustrialization process neglects the main point that GEE McFEarSun is emphasizing. Also no mention of the "arctic-news" blog? That gives the details as well.
She's not mentioned depleted uranium two-headed babies! Her economics-physics focus is a big "gee-whizzy" on the effects of the U.S. Imperial military genocidal complex. Mining uranium already has created "National Sacrifice Zones."
Professor Todd is giving a brilliant stunning analysis - very fascinating - good critique of the "MEERS" and other geoengineering - not to mention all the crazy unpredictable side effects. Jim Massa goes into that a lot on geoengineering. Professor Todd is focused on the economy but seems to be underestimating the power of Mother Nature to take revenge. She mentions we've already triggered tipping points. Yes indeed - the positive feedbacks are way underestimated - the methane bomb, etc. The irony of the "Don't Look Up" movie is that civilization IS the comet! those nuclear bombs to destroy the comet will themselves had "side effects" that neglect any positive effects.
Professor Todd's critique of the steady state circular economy based on the reuse of materials increasing entropy with each us (via degrading) is true but neglects that Ecology as a resource is based on "negative entropy" or negentropy as quantum biology. Basically this is how carbon sequestration occurs via life doing photosynthesis also - of course it is not "concentrated."
So as she states the RATE of growth of course could not be the same. A tree or prairie with herds of ungulates is also concentrating carbon - just not over millions of years as with ocean algae (that is now oil).... YES the steady state economy absolutely does NOT work based on a definition of "linear" time as progress - which is based on technology. It would literally have to be an ecological economy based on biology and NOT based on technology. That is how humans lived for our first 90% of our modern biology - before agriculture. haha.
I agree with her obviously that based on how modern human society is organized - with agriculture - then the steady state economy would not work. For example "jobs" did not exist until the 1600s in Europe. For the Incas for example if a male wanted to get married then he HAD to donate part of his farm crop and do military service - so that was his "job." And as Michael E. Hudson points out in the early agriculture city-states of West Asia - the financial "growth" as interest - the exponential growth - was cancelled out as a Jubilee every five years.
Why? Because they KNEW that ecology is a circular economy not based on linear time. So the farmers could only grow so much and then there is losses, etc.
Another thing is that around 8000 BCE - there was an ecological crisis due to the technological "progress" of deforestation to create limeash for water proofing the houses - via lime ash cement. So that was the FIRST "ecological crisis" of the first white Europeans that "fled" into Europe from West Asia - white from monocultural farming, lack of vitamin D.
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