The collective conscience is what is flawed. Personal conscience advises but seldom guides anymore. Since it does not guide it is unpracticed and unreliable anyway. Enter the collective conscience that answers instead...As long as I don't do worse than... This is convenient, because it allows us to take the easy way that ruffles no feathers;… Continue reading Collective Conscience is a problem not a solution

From a discussion of an article titled: Let's go green and cultivate solid biomass http://bioenergycrops.com/blog/2014/06/02/5-best-reasons-reforest-biomass-for-renewable-energy/ Thumbs up on the topic I support raising biomass in rotation on agricultural lands. I support using the biomass for energy/biorefinery products and biochar. I like the idea of splitting off a portion of the wetter or less suitable biomass… Continue reading Simple, Agriculture is a way to become symbiotic as a people instead of parasitic.

Dr. Abell, education that actually first enlightened and then enabled would be a clear step forward. Now it is education to first denature, than, de-ideal, than focus to be useful to the machine. Our educational system is serving the purpose of actually creating a synthetic mindset and a synthetic conscience to fit with "life in… Continue reading Education and Truth in general

Comment on an article discussion about extracting bio-oil from biomass to use in fueling ships: I am supportive, but cautiously. Questions to form opinion: * What will they do to replenish 100% of the minerals that are removed from those forests? * What will this do to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere over time… Continue reading Mineral accounting in the forest…

Let me offer one rational form of subject analysis: Aren't there two questions to be addressed in framing this debate? 1.) Is it OK to accelerate plant breeding through higher gene technologies (GM)? If it is OK, then how do the patenting processes and intellectual rights apply? 2.) Is it OK to cross the species barrier… Continue reading GMO considerations

I think we create the confusion. Anyone can go to the land and after a learning curve become sustainable. In fact squirrels can do it. The world is inherently sustainable. Why is that so difficult to understand. It is where you place the bar. Are we aiming for sustainability? No, we are trying to redefine it… Continue reading Comment on a cyclical discussion on how to become sustainable…

GMO's are not all created equal. Some accelerate natural plant breeding keeping the sanctity of "species". Others pervert species with what is like a Russian roulette with nature. Precaution and non-insanity mean we must get science back to discovery in reverence for nature to avoid dismantling something far greater and more complex and complete than we could create… Continue reading My two cents on the GMO debate…

I appreciate your perspective, really interesting. We are a million miles apart in perspective and in the direction in which we see hope for the future. I agree that there are components of our civilization that are 100% counter-sustainable. One example may be the complete overriding of natural survival which over time would tend to… Continue reading Response to a discouraged biologist who believes nature may not be the answer…