This blog is based on the post The 300-Year Party: The Church of Progress.

The Parable of the Inheritance

A lady had a low-paying job and not much in the way of savings. Nevertheless, she kept her expenses under control and was able to live contentedly within her income.

This blog is based on the post The 300-Year Party: Peak Forests.

In order to understand the nature of our current dilemma, including climate change, it is useful to consider how the development of our society that is based on the use of fossil fuels came about.

This blog is taken from the post Words, Words, Words.

This blog is taken from the post Hydrogen from Methane Pyrolysis.

Pyrolysis is a well-established process in which an organic material is heated to a high temperature in the absence of oxygen. Depending on the source materials used, the products from the reaction consist of organic materials and solid carbon in the form of char/charcoal/carbon black.

This blog is based on the post Which Climate Change Generalist?

This blog is based on the post Who's the (Climate Change) Expert?

One of the problems to do with climate change is that everyone has an opinion, regardless of whether they have done the necessary research and analysis. In this post we consider some of the attributes that make someone qualified to speak on the topic.

The content of this blog is taken from the post Transition Steps and the ebook Net Zero: An Opportunity.

Georg Hegel (1770-1831) was an 18th century German philosopher whose writings are notoriously obscure. He discussed the development of an “absolute idea” or “universal truth” that is obtained by reconciling contradictions and tensions within systems. This way of thinking is frequently referred to as an ‘Hegelian Synthesis’, even though he himself never actually used the term. The basic idea can be summarized in the following three steps.

1. We start with an initial idea or situation. This starting point is referred to as the ‘Thesis’.

The material in this blog is taken from the post Need for Action and from the ebook Net Zero: An Opportunity.