tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3653227500587947199..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: UBI Caritas (the best things in life are free)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-20722468835232405452015-04-19T22:40:10.667-04:002015-04-19T22:40:10.667-04:00"we're getting better at generating energ..."we're getting better at generating energy through wind and solar..."<br /><br />No doubt. But there's an awful long way to go on that. Solar made up less than a tenth of a percent of world energy consumption in 2011. Wind less than half a percent. Fossil fuel 78%. Again the issue of stocks and flows is essential. The overwhelming majority of the infrastructure handles fossil fuel.<br /><br />http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2015/04/of-bathtubs-bombshells-and-boilerplate.htmlSandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-10546597342559181372015-04-19T12:46:37.124-04:002015-04-19T12:46:37.124-04:00I expect the correlation between greenhouse gasses...I expect the correlation between greenhouse gasses and employment is actually a link between energy expenditure and employment. <br /><br />Replacing animal power and waterwheels with steam engines increased available power, as did replacing steam engines with internal combustion engines. However, we're getting better at generating energy through wind and solar... which means that measuring overall energy availability by greenhouse gas generation alone is less accurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-3303000877054747772015-04-16T06:03:44.915-04:002015-04-16T06:03:44.915-04:00i gather this is not your style, but would it be p...i gather this is not your style, but would it be possible to explain your position in an abstract (summary) form? <br /><br />even axiomatically, a la the great mathematical logician mitt romney (i think he made his money by developing ZFC set theory which is used in all microchips and Koch bro's products)---'point 1, point 2...point aleph 0 (countable infinity)...aleph 1 (real numbers if CH is true)...cantor's paradise...etc'<br /><br /> I dont think jevon's paradox or parable is a neccesary corrolary of a basic income---people i know who have something like that (eg SSI disability) basically live on it and on the cheap. van Parijis (also a UBI supporter in belgium, louvain la neuve---i knew people and been there) asked should surfers eat? <br /><br /> maybe they should though they do use a lot of energy (eg ocean waves and swimming away from sharks---i've been to hawaii (i have a relative there, who paid my way and attends the same church obama went to and old timers went with him there---i rode the bus in hawaii--not bad but slow), and surfing is a lifestyle. Indigenous hawaiians spend alot of time partying on the beach and many do not like the 'invaders' who they call 'howlies (sortuh like honkie or cracker)' ). <br /><br />I do think more work and production would be a good thing--my utopia would be everyone spend a bare minimum of hours getting basic needs (food, water, a private spaceship for vacations to various planets----and depending on the person, some will be a 1 way trip---they'll be denied re-entry at the border, like charlie chaplin was) and then devote remaining time to increasing GDP by having for the USA 300 million talk radio (possibly internet) shows. The only people who really work in my view are right wing talk show radio hosts (savage, limbaugh, levin, hewitt) and maybe face the nation. This would generate alot of hot air and fog which would linger in the atmosphere like volcano dust and confuse everyone enough they might chill out. This is named the 'Miss Information Culture' (after claude shannon, mic check, or military industrial complex), a de-materialized girl like madonna. Its a maximum entropy solution (one can compare entropy to information for further historical confusion, similar to cold fusion.) <br /><br />the sky trust is a good idea. <br /><br />the whole GHG thing is really a social/cultural issue. i'm in a small 'climate group' aiming at producing easily available stuff so people can consider their own carbon costs, ecological footprint (i may get kicked out too since i mention they are re-inventing the wheel, like Naomi Klein does with each new bestseller). We have bike lanes, solar panels, some community gardens, etc around here but the traffic just keeps piling up. I rode a plane to hawaii for the first time after i took one to europe and then egypt and india over 20 years ago. travel is nice and seductive. (right wing radio promotes tours to israel, NPR to french vinyards). i know a clerk at a whole foods store who saves all her money, bikes to work, and then spends it going to peru, nepal, etc. for hikes.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />i just looked again at your last paragraphs---thats sortuh like the abstract (in science, usally at the top of the article). These kinds of issues are very much related to ones in another discussion group i'm in oriented around https://www.jacobinmag.com (another one i may be expelled from---i'm good at this, started with being expelled from school).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com