I just made your sales count increase by one. Kindle version only because I don't feel the need to have a physical book, and it is a ton cheaper. I am looking forward to the read, I have rarely disagreed with your points of view and I doubt if this one will be any different. As soon as I finish, I will tot out a review.
I have been thinking about the phrase in your blurb on Amazon: "Blaming exterminators is not enough: " But since I have recently hauled out my ancient and battered copy of E.O Wilson's and W.H. Bossert's, "A Primer of Population Biology", I am coming around to the idea that what you refer to as a "extermination" is just a rough and ready version of inevitable population decline.
Being among the living, we tend to think that death is the enemy. But it is something everyone has to look at. When I was born, this planet of limits mustered around 2.4 x 10(9) human critters. According to google, we are now at 8.025 x 10(9). I have not noticed any increase in net natural resources or good farmland during that process. Nor have I noticed an appreciable increase in human potential.
Best numbers that I can see is that the sustainable human population tops out at around 3 x 10(9). I think that perhaps, and this is of course a matter of style and point of view, is that the "extinction" you are assigning blame to is baked in and appears to me to be a natural endpoint.
I suppose that, in light of the pronounced increase in the use of hyperbolic language in the political world, I am being pedantic when I ask awkward questions about assigning words to real world events. Spectrums in meaning exist. There are no precise words to define disgusting events. clearing operations, ethnic cleansing, genocide and extinction are all descriptions that can be applied.
You and I are of an age and a cohort that will not see the endpoint of all this process of achieving a stable ecology. I think that I am going to appreciate the views of Meuianga Mera Te Aì 'Enge'ite,
"Making America Healthy Again" will create warriors, right? What will they be hired to do by the hidden oligarchs, or can things be different this time (without killing baby girls and such)?
That would be great -- thank you. oceanic AT uw.edu
Perhaps I can find something suitably interesting about mass extinctions from my former studies to send in return, presuming your interest extends to more ancient events.
I loved this post and the linked earlier one. I'm hoping to read your novel cover to cover in the next few weeks as it's on my phone now. In the no doubt AI-generated picture I noticed the strange device on the reptiles left arm to be borrowed from the Fallout 76 video game which was made into a very entertaining Netflix video series called Fallout. I love these connections! The late, great Michael Dowd used to mention that as some point the largest mammal to survive what's coming in North America will probably be one smaller than a racoon that could burrow.
Just read this. Myself, I am hoping for racoons. Typical mammalian bias.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14085209/Scientists-reveal-creature-rule-Earth.html
They are missing a fundamental point. I'll write about that, soon!
I just made your sales count increase by one. Kindle version only because I don't feel the need to have a physical book, and it is a ton cheaper. I am looking forward to the read, I have rarely disagreed with your points of view and I doubt if this one will be any different. As soon as I finish, I will tot out a review.
I have been thinking about the phrase in your blurb on Amazon: "Blaming exterminators is not enough: " But since I have recently hauled out my ancient and battered copy of E.O Wilson's and W.H. Bossert's, "A Primer of Population Biology", I am coming around to the idea that what you refer to as a "extermination" is just a rough and ready version of inevitable population decline.
Being among the living, we tend to think that death is the enemy. But it is something everyone has to look at. When I was born, this planet of limits mustered around 2.4 x 10(9) human critters. According to google, we are now at 8.025 x 10(9). I have not noticed any increase in net natural resources or good farmland during that process. Nor have I noticed an appreciable increase in human potential.
Best numbers that I can see is that the sustainable human population tops out at around 3 x 10(9). I think that perhaps, and this is of course a matter of style and point of view, is that the "extinction" you are assigning blame to is baked in and appears to me to be a natural endpoint.
I suppose that, in light of the pronounced increase in the use of hyperbolic language in the political world, I am being pedantic when I ask awkward questions about assigning words to real world events. Spectrums in meaning exist. There are no precise words to define disgusting events. clearing operations, ethnic cleansing, genocide and extinction are all descriptions that can be applied.
You and I are of an age and a cohort that will not see the endpoint of all this process of achieving a stable ecology. I think that I am going to appreciate the views of Meuianga Mera Te Aì 'Enge'ite,
Thank you, and I'll pass your comment to Mera.
BTW. We are now at 89 copies in English and 10 in Italian. Not a bestseller, but it is moving!
I am going to re-post the Age of Exterminations post, "How to Kill a Few Billion People", since I have worked up to that in this second go-through of that series. https://www.senecaeffect.com/2023/01/the-age-of-exterminations-how-to-kill.html
"Making America Healthy Again" will create warriors, right? What will they be hired to do by the hidden oligarchs, or can things be different this time (without killing baby girls and such)?
Is there a way I can purchase a copy without supporting Amazon?
Sorry, there is none -- my fault. To atone for it, I can send you a pdf copy as a gift.
That would be great -- thank you. oceanic AT uw.edu
Perhaps I can find something suitably interesting about mass extinctions from my former studies to send in return, presuming your interest extends to more ancient events.
I loved this post and the linked earlier one. I'm hoping to read your novel cover to cover in the next few weeks as it's on my phone now. In the no doubt AI-generated picture I noticed the strange device on the reptiles left arm to be borrowed from the Fallout 76 video game which was made into a very entertaining Netflix video series called Fallout. I love these connections! The late, great Michael Dowd used to mention that as some point the largest mammal to survive what's coming in North America will probably be one smaller than a racoon that could burrow.