WHY ?
Some have
asked what it actually is I wish to accomplish, and why I do it.
I tried to answer one
correspondent towards the end of my blog of 02 February 2013 http://cleanenergypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/snippets-questions-2-comments.html
from which I would like to quote (bullet points
extended here):
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So much for my return comments.
Happy to learn of any corrective sources, which you – or anyone else
reading this – could point me to. I only claim to be a still learning pundit
(for want of a better word in contradistinction to expert or consultant
which I don’t claim to be), and then not in any climate science but in the areas of CleanEnergy and
Sustainability.
To
illustrate, here is my current study and work program, briefly:
·
The
global design problem:
".... to render the total chemical and energy
resources of the world, which are now exclusively preoccupied in serving only
44% of humanity, adequate to the service of 100% of humanity, at higher
standards of living and total enjoyment than any man has yet experienced."
Buckminster Fuller, UIA Paris, 1963
·
Its
timescale (solutions must be valid for grandchildren’s grandchildren):
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your
parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth
from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children.”
Ancient American Indian Proverb
·
Method (democracy
defined):
“Libraries are not just depositories of books, but
cornerstones of democracy. True democracy --based upon the informed consent of
the governed --cannot exist without full free and public access to knowledge.”
Seattle City
Librarian Deborah Jacobs, as quoted by Bruce Mau
·
Aim:
Sustainability
All outlined at http://www.lmhdesign.co.uk/planet.html
and at http://www.lmhdesign.co.uk/definitions.html
In these respects, I wholly share your closing encouragement – “Now
let’s get to work, seriously!”
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My first blog was posted on 09 September 2009 – ,
http://cleanenergypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/clean-energy-primer-quousque-tandem.html
since
when I am occasionally reporting and commenting on my learning progress – see at side column for total postings, and popularity ratings to date.
Latest
entries in the TYGER series are -- at the date of this posting (but check for later entries of TYGER reads that stirred or inspired me):
the first TYGER posting
is at
The most popularly read blogs are always shown
in the right margin of each posting.
The complete updated list is always available at http://tinyurl.com/k7ryobs The only rewards are that I learn a lot from the sources I quote, can talk and present what I learned, find readers in many countries, and to have been asked to let some of my blog postings be reproduced for wider circulation. Two recent articles, reprinted from my blog site, may illustrate some aspects I currently wrestle with:
As referred to in both of these TYGER postings
I would like to quote again from Buckminster Fuller’s Foreword to his Critical Path [Hutchinson, London,1983]:
“My reasons for writing this book are
fourfold:
(A) Because I am convinced that human knowledge by others of
what this book has to say is essential to human survival.
(B) Because
of my driving conviction that all of humanity is in peril of extinction if each
one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and
all the truth, and to do so promptly – right now.
(C) Because I am convinced that humanity’s fitness for
continuance in the cosmic scheme no longer depends on the validity of
political, religious, economic, or social organizations, which altogether
heretofore have been assumed to represent the many.
(D) Because, contrary to (C), I
am convinced that human continuance now depends entirely upon:
a. The intuitive wisdom of each and every
individual.
b. The individual’s comprehensive informedness.
c. The individual’s integrity of speaking and
acting only on the individual’s own within-self-intuited and reasoned
initiative.
d. The individual’s joining action with others, as
motivated only by the individually conceived consequences of so doing.
e. The individual’s never-joining action with
others, as motivated only by crowd- engendered emotionalism, or by a sense
of the crowd’s power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course
indicated by one’s own intellectual convictions."
I am trying, as best I can, to follow the
advice in Fuller’s point (D) above, using as much as possible of the
Traffic Signs in my comment in
http://www.principia-scientific.org/tyger-tyger.html#comment-2562
already referred to above,
as ”...my own ‘Traffic Signs’ in my ‘Whole-Earth-Sat-Nav’ through the CRITICAL PATH as a pointer to Democracy needing what appears to me like a never-ending minimum seven-voices, ricercar-like spiralling quest that might help mankind to ‘make it’ to the next interglacial.” [see Comment #1 below, for ease of reference]
http://www.principia-scientific.org/tyger-tyger.html#comment-2562
already referred to above,
as ”...my own ‘Traffic Signs’ in my ‘Whole-Earth-Sat-Nav’ through the CRITICAL PATH as a pointer to Democracy needing what appears to me like a never-ending minimum seven-voices, ricercar-like spiralling quest that might help mankind to ‘make it’ to the next interglacial.” [see Comment #1 below, for ease of reference]
Following this advice, 'doing what I do' gets more exciting day by day, and
that’s why I blog in order to share this excitement while quoting literature and links to sources that
give rise to it.
The list of countries that are reported to
have attracted readers of my blog postings comprise (at time of writing) :
And the Critical Path is still very long – with thanks to those who illustrated
it for us:
http://cleanenergypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/reality-check-following-collection-of.html
http://cleanenergypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/reality-check-following-collection-of.html
and above all, Thank You to all those ‘teachers’ on whom I leant in my various blog musings.
