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This IS a very messed up complicated Eaarth of too much (mis-/dis-)information, neoliberal capitalism/rampant entrepreneural business/consumerism & militaristic socio-ecological destruction!!! … and who really knows??? how these crazy MAGA-rolls of Trumpian-dice will play out in terms which of two definite routes WILL be taken: 1. that of maintaining the status quo of artificialization & destruction??? […]

INTRODUCTION. Humans have been for some time and are currently … causing tremendous socio-ecological destruction at an unprecedented rate.  We’ve destroyed  climax natural ecological communities & rampantly replaced sustainable agrarian ecological communities, … and we have decimated … topsoil, … quality air … and quality water, … net primary productivity, … photosynthesizers & biodiversity … […]

as journalists darren dunn, tess coody, & felicia frazer recently “de facto said” … and quite a few others in my life of 78 years (this month of november 2024) have pointed out i like most other individual humans or other life forms am relatively insignificant especially as a hog-farmer’s son, relatively superficial thinker with […]

i have tried to elicit a little thinking about religion & science on pages 152-3, 183-4, & others in games we play … more than 200,000 years of living Truthfully and 5,000 of searching for Truth* (and elsewhere, e.g., in this blog site of this blog post, paulpeaceparables.com ) but these efforts at getting myself […]

A plethora of thoughts (just thoughts! & ideas!) this morning (10/27/2024) after an amazingly fantastic Ogallala Commons “Discovery Days” get-together of elders and energetic youth of the Commons … and just before entering into Betsy Hoffmann Martin & friends & colleagues’ Seguin Riverside Cemetery reenactments (Saints Alive!) of local historical figures (of whom I will […]

i suppose like many i cannot be unhappy with my life … my heaven on Eaarth! STILL … I WISH I COULD KNOW GRANDKIDS WILLIAM HARVEY, ABIGAIL ELISE, AND IAN BAIN … …………………………………. hog farmer’s son, raised on a diversified five-acre place & largely formed in the mixed agricultural (good) multi-ethnic village of divine devine, […]

(Presentations to Local Governmental Entities Concerning Upcoming Sustainable Ecological Community Discussions, 10/20 & 11/2/2024 It does distress me greatly that so many in very levels of power, and the populace, or demos, which voted them in, have so much ignorance of ecological principles & processes, & appropriate values … and thusly some of the most […]

Eaarth* in 2024 “Common sense” observations and soft and hard science tell us … o Ignorance is bliss but dangerous. That ignorance is very dangerous is particularly true when dealing with lack of profoundly holistic ecological knowledge. We must begin to have principles, processes, and values of applied ecology across curricula and campuses of all […]

“Small Is Beautiful!” (E.F. Schumacher) “Less Is More!” (Jason Hickel) “Steady-State Economics.” (Herman Daly) “Moral Human Beings and Moral Society.”(Reinhold Niebuhr) rather than “Growth-Economics.” ……………………………. every “excessive” … mile that you travel, especially by air or automoble or cruise ship, number of electic or gasoline cars you own/operate, personal recreational, private defensive, or military gun, […]