Thoughts and Speculations: Recent Comments2008-10-06T14:37:52Zhttp://myblog.michaelpbyron.com/comments/atom.aspxQuick BlogcastComment on Making Terra Preta Soil: Ramona’s Recipe for Home-Made Dirttag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-08-22:1302664Diana2008-08-22T09:03:06Z2008-08-22T09:03:06Z I too live in Oceanside, and the soil here is composed of sandy clay. Much of our city sits on an ancient lagoon bed, so growing anything is a challenge.
I enjoyed reading this article and am looking forward to more.]]>Comment on Does the Outcome of the 2008 US Presidential Race Really Matter?tag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-06-15:1121051Daniel J Lavignehttp://www.taxrefusal.com2008-06-15T07:23:32Z2008-06-15T04:15:53Z We face worldwide starvation, possibly leading to the worldwide use of all nuclear and other weapons of mass murder.
What can we, as individuals, do? We can contact our representatives / possible representatives and ask that they spend some time becoming fully conversant with that which we now face: The end of "Lo_Cost Oil" to fuel our food production, processing and delivery to local markets.
Other than such, it is best that ALL ensure that ALL of their friends and families be made aware of that which now threatens us; and must be addressed.
How we proceed, from this moment forward, will etch the nature of our future.
We should hope and act to ensure that men and women of ability and goodwill for all ACT, NOW, to do what remains possible to do, given that we will have ever less "energy" with which to do what must be done.
I suggest that our most imperative action, one which must be recognized and acted on is the immediate and total rejection of all dependence on "Personal Use" vehicles.
I also suggest that, should we be unable to come to terms with that sad and lifestyle altering need, that there is NOTHING that we will otherwise do save Humanity from a self-prescribed extinction.
To a safer, saner and more caring world.
To Duty.
Daniel J. Lavigne ***************** http://www.taxrefusal.com]]>Comment on Ruminations on Ruin and Renewaltag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-05-04:1021924Joel2008-06-14T21:23:18Z2008-05-04T18:49:27Z Prolonged thought on this event could either cause you to go crazy or be accused of being crazy. Mayan beliefs are passive to the needs of our society. The only thing civilization seems to have done is punish the Mayan for their beliefs, take their knowledge and artifacts as the spoils of war, and then try to take centerstage - claiming the Mayan survivors don't know the truth of their own culture. There can only be one truth and finding the truth will probably be the last thing we do it this event occurs.
The world really needs to know the objective truth now, not mind binding partial explanations. What is really being done? What is going to happen? Do you think a prototype Biosphere that is really a BioDome (missing the bottom halfe of a sphere) will survive an event of this proportion?
The clock is ticking and we seem to be in the cheap seats where the view will be up close and personal.]]>Comment on Ruminations on Ruin and Renewaltag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-03-16:896543timothy price2008-03-16T15:08:19Z2008-03-16T06:27:54ZPrince of Darkness By Timothy K. Price
1 Ol' Satan Coal Down in his hole Has every past soul There collected.
Cast into their graves, Bituminous slaves, In these last days Are resurrected.
In furnaces to burn, Power to churn, Engines that turn The generators
(Chorus) Prince of Darkness, Unseen ruler of men, Who has dominion Over all the Earth. Prince of Darkness, Unseen ruler of men, Who will have the strength To turn away from him?
2 Higher up he flies Into the skies ....making .....temp'ratures rise And climates change.
Satan the Deceiver Powers the receivers, Watts for the believers of .... Electronic lies.
Offers you his powers In kilowatt hours Gives credit cards like flowers ...To tempt you.
Chorus
3. His name, if you're able by the periodic table, Learn the Beast of the fabled Number: 6-6-6.
6 Neutrons are his heart, 6 Protons are a part, 6 Electrons that arc Make ... "Carbon the Beast"
Lucifer, Light Bearer, Bringer of terror, War waged in error For fossil fuel.
Chorus
4. He'll gas-up your car, Take you so far, But the money you are..... ...Paying to him.
He'll lend you his name in the credit card game, tattooed in your brain, ...helps you to buy and sell.
Credit is easy The slope it is greasy The lender's so sleazy -He'll take your soul.
Chorus
5 Last judgment neglected To judge, as expected, Those being resurrected, But the living are, instead.
Used power for greed, Ignoring the need, Got fat on the feed from slave labor.
--He has your face In his data base. Your debt won't be erased. ....Links in your chain.
Chorus
6. You say each time... you go into the mine, Lord, Let the sun shine On me again.
But ol' Satan Coal Down in his hole Has every past soul There collected.
Died in their prime, Buried in slime, Now in our time Are resurrected.
(Chorus) Prin]]>Comment on Ruminations on Ruin and Renewaltag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-03-16:896537timothy price2008-03-16T15:07:22Z2008-03-16T06:24:40Z Prince of Darkness By Timothy K. Price
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Some might say I am an optimistic skeptic, in so much as I think things are looking pretty bad for the world but have some kind of blind faith that it will all work out.
Is this denial? Is it scepticism that all that we are told may not be and that is just another form of hype to control the masses and inject fear?
It is a hard place to be. I liked your optimism at the end of the article and it is that very optimism that helps people not bury their head in the sand from doom and gloom projections. Some hope.
Where do we start then, how do we initiate this awareness and instigate the appropriate change in lifestyle? Particularly when most are caught up in a system that unless you have capital you are a slave to.
I run a white water rafting company that has a paradox. We introduce people from the cities to their natural environments. We do our best to subliminally initiate a connection and appreciation to the natural world, to life sustaining free flowing rivers. Yet to accomplish this we have people using carbon energy to get here, and it is an activity undertaken essentially as an extravagance. Our very own survival is dependent on people having the luxury to travel and holiday.
So I guess my question is, while I work on myself to initiate the 'right' change where is the network and what can I or we do to assist?
Regards
Jim Davis]]>Comment on The Burning Timetag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-03-15:895312Judith2008-03-15T12:19:17Z2008-03-15T12:19:17ZComment on Proof Certaintag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-01-12:763403Mark Smith2008-01-15T21:39:09Z2008-01-12T05:15:38ZComment on The Burning Timetag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-01-02:740527Tom Ness2008-01-06T19:15:56Z2008-01-02T21:47:33ZIn fall of 1970 when I was in navy boot camp one of these conflagrations swept through the San Diego area. The sun was a dull orange orb at noon and ashes lay two inches deep in the streets.
Nothing was learned then; the vegetation grew back, the suburbs grew out, and the next disaster was inevitable.
I have two comments to make on urban/wildland interface fires:
First, they only have enough fuel available to happen because the houses there are heated with fossil fuels, brought in by wires (electricity) pipes (natural gas) or trucks (propane). When fossil fuels get too scarce and expensive, if anyone is still living in those suburbs they will be scrounging every last stick of wood from the surrounding hillsides just to stay warm. The problem will shift from wildfire due to excess fuel load to erosion and landslides due to not enough vegetation.
Second: All wildland firefighting as we know it is 100% petroleum-dependent. The bulldozers, water tank trucks, fire retardent-dropping aircraft -- even the hot shot crews cutting fire line with hand tools arrived in passenger vans, sometimes from several states away. With the arrival of Peak Oil we had better start thinking about the future of firefighting in all fire-prone landscapes.
Ironically, the only answer will prove to be a vastly expanded prescribed burn program, much like the Native Americans before us who kept their lands burned off at just the right intervals and times of year to maximize the benefit to the vegetation, wildlife, and themselves. We cannot log our way out of this; that just makes the problem worse. We cannot clear the excess fuel load by hand; no one has the money for that much labor. Controlled burns under just the right timing are the only answer.]]>Comment on 2012tag:myblog.michaelpbyron.com,2008-01-02:739965Dalehttp://myblog.michaelpbyron.com/2007/12/29/2012.aspx2008-01-06T19:15:09Z2008-01-02T16:03:11ZWhen 2012 rolls around, I posit that it will be similar to the Y2K mania. I do not think that any one has the definitive answer to the question. OK, Now it is 2013,so what is next.
The end of mankind, OK I am ready. The start of enlightenment. Great bring on the teachers.The re-start of time? These are all things over which most of us have absolutely no control, and like the Dinosaurs, maybe that is a blessing in and of itself. People have been discussing the end of times for 1000's of years. No one has appeared to have it correct yet.
There are many signs that the world could use a good house cleaner, yet I have my reservations as if it is going to be anywhere close to the time-frames being batted about.I do not think anyone knows the hour or day when anything unforeseen and unplanned is going to take place.
I frankly believe that this conjecture just leads one to an attitude of fear, and frankly I am over the fear control thing. I have known of the Mayan end of days for 40 years. It hasn't changed one thing or choice I have made. Now that the date is getting closer, it is not going to influence anything I now do either.
I enjoy the theories, but that is exactly what they are. The idea that something or someone or some event shall change all things. Great cocktail conversation. I however decided long ago to live my life by my understanding of the reality around me. Half the people were asleep then, the Greatest Generation along with all the other entitled sheep have grazed their way though the last 100 years and done nothing. This world does need a change. I just seriously doubt that it will be from some mass enlightenment.
Unless that enlightenment is a boot on their necks. The land of the US of (OZ ) will just continue, or there will be a new OZ. Actually there is only one constant and it is that whatever you think it will be, it will not be. Have an enlightened New Year.