Petroleumm Blues

Lulz. Shameless polluter poem. Cute.

On a serious note, it often hits me how crazy it is that the whole world runs on such a finite and exhaustible resource. And one that will leave us with a ruined environment when it finally runs out.

Not to say only oil and carbon emissions are to blame for that. We must give credit to cow farts. So many cow farts. Cow farts errywhere. Their name is legion, for they are many.

Yeah, as Fuller often pointed out, there are no guurantees humanity will be a success on extending their existence here after becoming in global humanity via sea-travel by British { immoral savages } Empire. 

1492 > 1592 > 1692 > 1792 > 1892 > 2092? That is five century's of a global  earth humanity awareness.

Overpopulation will destroy the environment, not oil.

"overpopulation" is correlated to the systems-of-operation ---bicycles or hummer-V's---   and whether they are sustainable for longer term.

Wind and sun have long term viability. Coal, nukes and oil do not.

"overpopulation" is also correlated to standard-of-living in conjunction with sources of power production.

"overpopulation" is also correlated to all of the above and how much food and fresh water can be maximally produced balanced to how much area-volume -space for humans, that is not a food oriented space-area-volume.

So that is three factors opening factors to consider regarding human and animal populations on Earth.

I know that in WW2, if not in modern day,  the sailors bunked in hammocks above and below the torpedos where they worked on a submarine.

In Hong Kong and many third world country the family lives in the shop they operate their business out of.

I'm sure there are models that have a lot of this graphed out various scenarios via data harvested and process in various apps if not games.

Bucky Fullers 1960's World Game and its offshoots

Ex http://www.osearth.com/the-game/

...".By translating core elements of the global economy into cards, chips, folders and other familiar objects, the Global Simulation Workshop allows players of all ages and backgrounds to act naturally, trust their instincts and teach each other, while simulating thirty years of future socio-economic history."....

 

It's the fossil fuels, which are probably preventing another ice age by adding dinosaur farts into the atmosphere, much of which is CO2 that tends to accumulate around the polar regions where there is less photosynthesis, which according to the greenhouse effect causes ice to melt, releasing more gasses.

The world runs on petroleum because it is economical way to transfer stored energy for mobile working (work=force×distance) devices, and once the supply/demand changes the industry will naturally adapt.  The problem with oil is not that it is finite, but that it is so unevenly distributed.

my contribution is to point out that cow farts are not a big problem... 85-90% of cow-based methane emissions are cow burps.

Welcome to the free market

hooray for poetry

This is moving the goalposts.  I also know that you don't like to compromise even if it is a policy based compromise.  You have a my way or the highway attitude and this is poor conduct.

Hmm what would you say if I said there are cheap simple solutions to reverse global warming without reducing carbon emissions at all?

Big Blue Stem Prairie Grass best carbon sequestor

...."The discovery of Glomalin in 1996 improved our understanding of soil affinity for carbon. Glomalin is the superglue that soil uses to attract and hold carbon. Because of glomalin, prairie soils are able to sequester large amounts of carbon which over time changes the soil into Mollisol, a soil type found only under prairie grasslands.  Mollisol soil is extremely rich in organic matter and can extend to a depth of three feet."..

...."The roots of some prairie plants can extend to a depth of 10 feet or more. Various studies of the potential for tallgrass prairie carbon storage have shown that the storage rates vary between .30 and 1.7 metric tons per acre per year.  This storage ability is cumulative over time so prairie soil is able to sequester or store large volumes of carbon in a natural, safe, effective and reliable way compared to the risky and expensive practice of pumping CO2 underground.  An additional benefit of this “grassland carbon storage system” is that the sequestered carbon is supporting a lush prairie ecosystem above ground." See LINK...

..."But in today’s world, prairie needs to be recognized for its capacity to help reduce climate change by sequestering heat-trapping carbon from the atmosphere.

...."The researchers found that having prairie grasses such as big bluestem, indiangrass, or switchgrass resulted in carbon gains when planted on productive soils. However, the same was not true for marginal soils, where all grasses, regardless of species or type, resulted in net carbon losses to the atmosphere.".....

..."The current path of global carbon emissions reveals grasslands as the only viable net carbon dioxide sink through 2101. And grasslands continue to store some carbon even during extreme drought simulations."....See LINK

Age ofCommon Sense
......Mustard....
 
No oneknows, what future unfolds,
Rays oflight, colored with hope,
Dancingnano-energies, fulfilling our dreams,
Networksblooming spirit, far, wide and deep,
 
Let uspray, let us speak,
Lets us seeour humanity, from a global peak,
High oninformation, data streams galore,
Let usemanate great heart, from every pore.
 
No human ismisplaced, no biological not known,
The kidsstill growing, or already grown,
All is notperfect, cracks always appear,
The spiritof humankindness, helps relieve any fear.
 
Talk ischeap, inexpenive indeed,
Humanitytalks much, when in dire need,
Send me aphrase, or lines upon lines,
Free usfrom suspicion, and misinformation seeds.
 
We race toour end, or our recursive beginnings,
Mindsadvancing technologies, may help bridge the gap,
Betweendark-age of soot and the light age of Solar,
ItsHydrogen from light, and common-sense as the rap.
 
Unity stillevades us,
Divisionconquers all,
Day andnight provides the wind,
And waves, as  energetic squalls.

Expressing Ourselves
....Mustard....
 
With reasoning thought
As prose or verse in rhyme,
Some of us are labeled as Poets
Others as philosophers of the mind.
 
We follow our earnest endeavors
With expressive emotions in kind
True to hearts contentment
Through eterntys embracement of time.
 
Lost in our words with passion
As all good souls have befell
Seaching for those good ideas,
That ring true like a bell.
 
We seek the depths of knowledge,
Of whats known and unknown,
We follow a truly great pattern,
A tree of life we have grown.
 
Branching outward and inward,
May each bud have its say,
Our experiences are continually unfolding,
Throughout the night and each day.
 
Biology is recursivly recycling,
A regurgative mesh behold,
Of spirits and souls around us,
Exposed as flesh we grow old.
 
Pleasing all the people,
With concepts and some verse,
Is a challenge for comedians,
Philosophers, poets and worse.
 
Seek and ye shall find,
All through the historical ages,
All manner of verse and orator,
Mystical and spiritual sages,
Everywhere are to be found.
 
Words may carry great power,
Of an intense conceptual nature,
They penetrate our essence,
They define all nomenclature.
 
The rationale that follows
For a prose I combine and concoct,
Is to share a few insightful revelations,
Of mysteries I may unlock.
 
No, the poems are not simple,
In fact their very complex,
For those who do not grasp them,
May feel that they have been hexed.
 
Life's Universe can be awful pretty,
Or ugly and gulity as hell,
The way that I have defined it,
Is my own special spell.
 
Enough already you say!
Please give this reader a break,
From this philosophizing poet,
Whom i can hardly take.
 
Now you may feel kind reader,
That i have spoken enough,
Of ideas in prose and verse,
Now I sit and ponder
At how you may rebuff.

What about the daily onslaught of 7.7billion human farts?

Over population is a problem that Ive been posting about for 25 years on internet and talking about even longer.

Human over population, in regards to the systemic processes we have in place, is the driver of most, if not all of humanities large scale problems.

Dumb = more sovereign nations,

....less unified humanity, 

.....more weapons,

.....no free condoms,

.......less sex education,

.......less legal prostitution,

.......no minimal standard of living balanced to the ecological environment that sustains us.

Ex those people who want to dump toxic wastes in the ocean, with the idea that the oceans are so large they will dilute all of the toxicity and not affect humans in any significant way.

These type people are living in a fantasy land of non-truth. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind works until the the toxic waste starts affecting marine life and the humans that depend on the marine life for their survivall

Humans are basically incompassionate, greedy barbarians.

So how do we get beyond this lack of moral integrity? Unify under a flag that is for most people and the ecological environment that sustains us with minimal standard of living as the base line, not the highest standard of living as the base line.

Humanity --mostly 1st nations--- have abused the ecological enviroment that sustains us and now we have reap what we have sown, more and more.

Petroleum Blues is not just a cute poem, it is about  the basic short-sided, narrow-mindedness of humanity.

At this point, even if humanity were to unify behind a common set of moral integrity, I think it is too late for most of humanity to survive, if not all of humanity to survive another 500 - 1000 years. Only time will tell.

There exists no guarantees humanity will past the more wholistic  intellectual smart-test for their longer term existence on Earth.

 

Yep.

No real collectivism, just a collection of inherently selfish individuals.

I think that new intelligence will refine itself very quickly.

Though I see it all as being part of an inevitable evolutionary process, rather than something sinister.

So our human developed technology is getting smarter, whereas humans are not getting smarter.

As for sinister, only humans can be sinister not smart technology.

1) There is more than one definition of the word refine. Check it out.

2) "Smart" is simply human thinking, relative to a current phase of technological development.

3) Yep exactly. We are now highly dependant on A.I.

    Sure, A.I. development will still be dependant on a few smart humans for some time to come. But I think that it's more than likely that A.I. will

    eventually exceed human capabilities.

4) "Sinister" in this context, is a word used to  represent how humans respond to something, rather than how something non-human might                          behave.

Nice..