Homo Sapiens fills the definition of a parasite.
We live off our host planet and take all and replace nothing.

Hi Ateday,

It's great to see you use all that evolution and civilisation has given you to hate yourself.

I prefer those who have great reverence for the fact that life and humanity exist at all. What hope does life and humanity have if all it brings you is self-hatred?

Would you sum up your life's philosophy as:

"We're aholes.
We're f'd.
We deserve to be f'd because we're a'holes."?

Cheer up. Membership is open at the miserable gits association, where you share your pessimism and self-hatred with gay abandon.

Appropriately named fester,
Try reading the definition of "parasite" and tell me why it does not apply to all Homo Sapiens.

Viruses are the ultimate parasites. Does that make them good or bad?

Human beings are living beings. Are they breaking rules by virtue of living? Where is the rule book, or is the crime simply one of offending your sensibilities?

BTW, respect to you for being a real person here.

As I understand it, the energy in fossil fuel came from the sun.
And the sun is nuclear powered.
Another source of the sun's energy is the movement of air on the surface of our planet.
We could use this movement to provide an alternative source of energy?
We could also look at harnessing the energy of the sun directly, using solar panels.
But aren't we doing all this already?
I cannot see why we need to focus on fossil fuels, and ignore the other less harmful ways of generating the energy we need.
Initially, these alternatives will merely add to total requirement.
But eventually, they need to overtake and surpass fossil fuel.
But maybe not completely?
Maybe fossil fuel will continue to be used, but at a much diminished level.

A few more end of year thoughts.

As I see it.
We have three main attributes.
Instinctive behaviour.
Learned behaviour.
Reason.
Normally, we use reason to understand and direct all behaviour in to productive paths.
However, there are those who cannot or will not do this.
Instead, they will direct behaviour towards harm and destruction.
And often do so in a stealthy way.
Then we all suffer, until we locate and isolate those persons.

I watched a Tv program about aboriginal rights.
I concluded it is their strong wish to continue to be 'different'.
In which case, they will continue to be treated as 'different'.
That is as certain as night follows day.
The ball is frequently in their court it seems.

All education could be considered a form of radicalisation.
Except when it is based solely on truth as far as we can define it.
Then, it is aimed at improving the way we live.
And is to be applauded.

The last day of the year.
I didn't do much this year.
Maybe next year.

Ipso Fatso

"I concluded it is their strong wish to continue to be 'different'."

That statement to me is no different from saying that all Chinese are dishonest. Here is a more accurate statement about indigenous people:

"All indigenous people are human beings. You cannot assume what they believe. That is patronising."

As for energy, supernova batteries might have more to offer the future than renewables, although I'd like an electric car with a 50+ year battery life and a fold out solar charging array, and definitely not drive by wire.

Why not check out this very sobering website, the author of which has done his homework
http://reeswilliame.substack.com

Its the same old Malthusian assertions. The population is too big and the resources are running out they assure us. Doom all around. From Malthus to Ehrlich to the Club of Rome and many others in between - all predicting gloom..... all wrong.

Its as though they've never heard of Julian Simon. Never pondered the ramifications of the Green Revolution or the demise of the Peak Oil scare.

The fact is that we aren't running out of resources. We've never run out of any resource and in many cases the amount of recoverable resources are greater now than at any time in history. Additionally the per capita calorie production is greater than in any time in history.

Mankind has a desire, even a need or a want, for impending Armageddon. In the past, there were any number of reasons to fear the future - disease, pestilence, drought flood. Now that those things have largely been defeated or at least no longer threaten Armageddon, the need to dream up new things to fret about grows.

But the neo-Malthusians are wrong - they've been wrong for the last two centuries. But that won't stop them proclaiming that the end is nigh and it won't stop people falling for it.

I thought that Malthuse had a point, but going chicken little doesn't often help.
There are some good points in the article.

I see oil as synonymous with organic chemistry. Long carbon chains are a very efficient energy storage mechanism. In a sense banning oil is banning life

Of course nuclear is a denser energy storage method, but it takes a lot of equipment to convert it to a useable form.

Everything comes down to political power, power over people, some are wise enough to realise that many people are just part of the scenery, and if you can stop the scenery affecting your life sphere too much, you can avoid their madness, tall fences help.

If your enemy can convince you to kill yourself, by denial of your own power, then they win. Maybe this is the true nature of the green revolution and Nikita Kruschev (we will bury you).

Oil is political power, the sane must have control for the world to be sane. But the sane must allow a limited sandbox for the insane to learn the value of sanity. Sometimes these sandboxes just concentrate the insanity.

Others think that we should just nuke the insane. Does that make them insane? or wise??
Is this just another instance of Schumpeter's creative destruction? How to encapsulate destruction within creation? (Is this like encapsulating freedom within slavery?)

There seems to be a paradox between the need for power and the concept of the unlimited bounty of political liberalism on a finite Earth (Patrick Deneen).

Some talk about life being the universe trying to understand itself...

Western populations are not growing; they are not replacing themselves. The growth is in anti-Western populations. Most Western countries will be like the shitholes the immigrants are coming from, and they will be covered in smoke from thousands of animal dung fires. There will be no electricity.

As always ttbn, positive to the end.

ttbn- yes the west is suicidal

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1865240150800960
My guess is that the proponents of "renewables" will not understand the video in the above link.

yes the west is suicidal
Canem Male,
Definitely ! The Leftist Woke of the Demographic to be precise !