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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. HAVE WE ALL GONE BONKERS WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

30 Tuesday Aug 2022

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( Five minute read)

The message is clear Climate Change is here and is already having a significant impact.

It is inconceivable that we still have people refusing to accept the facts that surround them,  even if they saw 100 more years of it plain and apparent they and unfortunately many of our present world leaders are blind to what is happing and what is to come.

How much more evidence do they and us need ?

MAKE YOUR MINDS UP!

The Evidence for Rapid Climate Change Is Compelling:

I’ve not noticed any changes in the weather outside of the norm or I don’t give a Fuck what is happing. I’d rather live on another planet, than on one where every aspect of your life is subject to rigorous scientific control is not possible.

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate.Rivers and reservoirs have shrunk dramatically in the past 20 years

Right now there’s nothing like enough understanding.

Observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.

Human activity is the principal cause. It is undeniable that human activities have produced the atmospheric gases that have trapped more of the Sun’s energy in the Earth system.

However if there was meeting tomorrow of world leaders they would as before, argue that its not their responsibility, making promises that cannot be kept.

To have any chance of drilling into them the urgency of tackling climate change on a global scale perhaps it would be best to invite them all together in Gautama bay, take their mobile phone, starve them for a week and get them to write their last wills and testaments.

This might fired the starting gun on what will become a global race to eliminate fossil fuels.

At this point you might be asking why is it so difficult for the world to take action.

The effort to control climate change impacts virtually every element of a country’s economy “so countries have traditionally been nervous about what they’re going to be asked to do.”

The idea that every five years countries would be asked to come up with more ambitious targets, ramping up their efforts is therefore bull shit.

“We are living in an interconnected global village with a common stake,” says Xi.

Hybrid wind-solar plant at Zaozhuang, China“All countries are closely connected and we share a common future. No country can gain from others’ difficulties or maintain stability by taking advantage of others’ troubles.”

“We should embrace the vision of a community with a shared future in which everyone is bound together,” he continues.  He is right!  Heart-stirring stuff, eh?

A cynic might think his reassuring words were partly a ploy to reingratiate China with the climate-conscious Europeans, and isolate a climate-sceptic US President MR DUMP. 

But there is a much more important broader context for his announcement:

Let’s be clear what it means:

China, the most polluting nation on earth – responsible for around 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions – is saying it is going cut that back to virtually zero within 40 years. The commitment is of significant because China has never promised anything near as bold as this on climate before. President Xi’s 2060 pledge was notably unconditional – China will move ahead whether or not other countries chose to follow.

Why?

Because the cost of renewables follows the logic of all manufacturing – the more you produce, the cheaper it gets. Why invest in new oil wells or coal power stations that will become obsolete before they can repay themselves over their 20-30-year life?

Why carry carbon risk in their portfolios at all?

It looks like Xi has judged that the economics of clean energy mean that decarbonising is now the most sensible choice for the Chinese economy as well as for the world’s climate.

So can we stop worrying about climate change?

Sadly we cannot.

It is going to take eye-popping investment in wind, solar and nuclear power.

Even as the economics tilts in favour of renewables the task of decarbonisation is still enormous. However once half the world is on-board with the project of decarbonisation it is hard to see how the rest could hold out.

Evidence of environmental damage and climate change everywhere. It’s the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. Tackling it means changing how we do virtually everything.

We are right to be anxious and afraid at the prospect.  Remember that by  2050 urban centres will hold 75% of the world population and 40% of them have no resilience plans in place, and have no plans to develop one in the hear future.  

Currently accounting for 70% of the worlds population and 70% of global GDP and 70% of CO2 emissions.

Don’t get me started on the food crisis.

You’ll be even more apprehensive if I was venture down that online rabbit hole.

Consider this conundrum:

When you talk to climate scientists you quickly discover they are far more worried about the dangers of global warming than most of us. Some tell you privately that they have had counselling to cope with the psychological effects of knowing the world is facing an impending disaster and not enough is being done.

Yes at this moment in history were in a mess.  Wars, Natural disasters, Energy, Rampant Inequality etc. On the right, I am alright Jack on the left just of a scream that will before defang in the next few years.

Leadership is action not position.

As Henry Miller said  ” No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. “

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S. THERE IS NO SINGLE SOLUTION THAT CAN ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE WHICH IS NOT GOING TO COST TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS.

29 Monday Aug 2022

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( Seven minute read)

It is now beyond the obvious that it is going to take trillions and trillions to reduce the impact of climate change.

It is also obvious that we are incapable of addressing any of the problems that climate change is waiting to reveal on the world on a global scale.

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT IT IS BEYOND MY COMPRENSION THAT WE REMAIN SO INACTIVE TO DO THE RIGHT THINK AND DEMAND THAT OUR POLITIONS GET REAL.

More than 800 million people—11% of the world’s population—can already feel the consequences of climate change in their daily lives, including increased frequency of natural disasters, prolonged droughts, and irregular weather patterns.

Extreme weather events are known to create poverty traps, or conditions linked to health, education, livestock, and assets that perpetuate the cyclical nature of poverty because people need a significant amount of capital to recover from them.

Since poverty and climate change is a two-way street, reductions in poverty
now can allow people to better adapt and respond to changing environmental conditions in the future.

WE ARE NOW JUST ON THE TRESHOLD OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF TRASHING OUR PLANET FOR CENTURIES FOR SHORT TERM PROFIT.

To day countries spend billions on defence, but there is no defence from climate change.

We all know that the impacts of climate change and global warming will have a snowball effect, generating more and more problems as the crisis unfolds world wide.

Yes we can invest in communities fighting the impacts of climate change at the local level but climate change impacts every form of life—humans, plants, and animals.

We all know it is happing.

Thanks to mass pollution – dumping million of tons of plastic into to our oceans, pumping trillion of tons of carbon into our atmosphere, the earth is now crises.

The simple truth is that no single solution can address every cause and effect of global climate change—it will take collective, significant actions at all levels to preserve the planet and protect our future.

This is now common sense not a scientific theory.

So what are we doing?

Spending $239 for every person on the planet, 2.1% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), on military budgets.  Poring up banks, Pouring money into GDP, No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion.

The real story is that we are already running short of oil, at the same time, wind and solar and other “clean energy” sources are nowhere nearly able to substitute for the quantity of fossil fuels being lost.

This unfortunate energy story is essentially a physics problem.

Energy per capita and, in fact, resources per capita, must stay high enough for an economy’s growing population. When this does not happen, history shows that civilizations tend to collapse.

Politicians cannot possibly admit that today’s world economy is headed for collapse, in a way similar to that of prior civilizations.

Politicians will avoid talking about possible future economic problems related to inadequate energy supply. If there are energy supply problems, they need to be framed as being temporary, perhaps related to the war in Ukraine.

Politicians want to get re-elected. They want citizens to think that everything is OK.

Most high-level politicians are aware of the energy supply issue, but they cannot possibly talk about it.

Instead, they choose to talk about what would happen if the economy were allowed to speed ahead without limits, and how bad the consequences of that might be.

So politicians cannot tell the world how bad the energy situation really is.

Furthermore, politicians see that they can have more control over populations if they can direct citizens in a way that will use less energy.

Businesses also want to minimize problems.

They would like the news media to publish stories saying that any economic dip is likely to be very mild and temporary.

What is wrong is a physics problem.

The operation of our economy requires energy of the correct type and the right quantity. The economy is something that grows through the “dissipation” of energy.

Falling energy consumption is associated with economic contraction.

The truth physics terms, is that world economy is a dissipative structure, just as all plants, animals and ecosystems are.  All dissipative structures have finite lifespans, including the world economy.

Citizens around the world can sense that something is very wrong.

It looks like the economy may be headed for a serious recession in the near term.

If a person understands the connection between energy consumption and the economy, such a rapid drop in energy supply looks like something that would likely be associated with economic collapse.

The rich and powerful can see this change as a good thing if they themselves can profit from it. When there is not enough energy, the physics of the situation tends to lead to increasing wage and wealth disparities. Wealthy individuals see this outcome as a good thing: They can perhaps personally profit.

For example,

Bill Gates has amassed about 270,000 acres of farmland in the United States, including newly purchased farmland in North Dakota.

Estimates of how much money it would take to end global climate change range between $300 billion and $50 trillion over the next two decades.

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Even now, I am one of a very small number of people in the world writing about this issue.

We are now seeing that the approach seems to produce inflation rather than more energy production.

If people are not to freeze in the dark in winter, longer-term solutions are needed

.Militaries around the world are no doubt well aware of the fact that there will not be enough energy supplies to go around. This means that the world will be in a contest for who gets how much.

In a war-like setting, we should not be surprised if communications are carefully controlled.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S. I TOLD YOU SO IN NUMERIOUS POST WE STILL IGNORING CLIMATE CHANGE.

27 Saturday Aug 2022

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( Three minute read)

Earth Will Continue to Warm and the Effects Will Be Profound.

“People [who stand to be] most harmed by climate change aren’t even born yet.

Reducing emissions is no longer enough to insure against a catastrophic climate change outcome we need to invest now in adaptation.

It’s a tough pill to swallow, but modern conveniences like electricity, transportation, and air conditioning contribute to climate change, and remedies potentially involve significant sacrifice and lifestyle change.

There is no free lunch when it comes to overcoming climate change.

Without a definitive culprit, it’s easier for sceptics to ignore or explain away climate change effects.

However most of the world agrees it’s a danger, but how do we conquer it?

What’s holding us back?

The damage caused by most climate change pollutants will happen in the future.

Which means most of us won’t truly be affected by climate change — it’s a hypothetical scenario conveyed in charts and graphs. While we’d like politicians and voters to be moved by altruism, this isn’t always the case. In general, policymakers have little incentive to act until it comes home to roost on their back door.

Global climate is projected to continue warming over this century and beyond.

The degree of climate change and severity of impacts ultimately depend on the amount of heat-trapping gases emitted by humans and how sensitive Earth’s climate is to those emissions.

Global climate change is not a future problem.

Changes to Earth’s climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment and we all know what that means with more change are now occurring on a daily basis, such as sea ice loss, accelerated sea level rise, with longer more intense heat waves, droughts, and flooding.

(Some changes (such as droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall) are happening faster than scientists previously assessed and some of these changes are irreversible.)

Recent satellite observations have detected that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing ice.

Even a partial loss of these ice sheets would cause a 1-meter (3-foot) rise. If lost completely, both ice sheets contain enough water to raise sea level by 66 meters (217 feet).

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The severity of effects caused by climate change will depend on the path of future human activities.

Climate change discussions typically focus on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But are emission-reduction scenarios realistic, and can they prevent substantial warming? Moreover, what happens if temperatures and sea levels climb despite these efforts?

Even if the United States and Europe — which currently account for 30% of global CO2 emissions — were to reduce their emissions next week to zero (an unlikely scenario), that would still leave 70% of emissions unaccounted for.

Counting on a best-case emissions scenario isn’t effective policy.

What if, despite our best efforts, we are simply unable to reduce emissions enough to prevent a temperature increase of 2°C or more? What then? Do we just wave our hands and say “Too bad”?

And if today we think that there is a strong possibility that (despite our best efforts) we are likely to experience a temperature increase greater than 2°C, what should we do?

Two degrees may not seem like a lot. Indeed you probably wouldn’t notice.

We are not talking here about a few weeks of a heat wave but the long term trends.

Have a look.

https://youtu.be/9GjrS8QbHmY 

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S. IT’S NOW OR NEVER FOR RECALIBRATION OF THE CAPITALIST WORLD WE LIVE IN AND DIE ON.

27 Saturday Aug 2022

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( Six minute read) 

With the current frangible condition of the world the question is, should we be focussing more on local and community resilience rather than trying to address climate change on a world scale. 

Of course it is only natural that all of us look to ourselves but  “The economy comes first,” seems to make less and less sense.

This time is undoubtedly critical, to decide on our definitions of economy or wealth?

What, indeed, is most precious to us?

Covid, of course, may have shifted the landscape, not necessarily of our wants, but of the possibilities available to us, and how we order our list of priorities. 

Taking account of the increased threats to global stability posed by “a nuclear blunder”, aggravated by the gradient of climate change and combine this with technologies that are wreaking the cultural web of civilization, as the loss of biodiversity begins to fracture the web of the biosphere, with consequences that are both wholesale and probably irredeemable. The question must be broader than our “wants” at the personal, or even national level, but must consider “the world” in its full dimension.

Hence, our choices made on the local scale must further consider their impacts more globally not only in a geographical sense, but across the swathe of beliefs and views that different cultures hold as their framework to make sense of existence, to give value and meaning to life, and to decide upon which goals count as being worthy of achieving.

The intermeshing quality of the world’s many woes has been conveyed by the term “changing climate” (i.e. climate change per se being just one item on the list), and amid a morass of such magnitude, positives are apt to remain obscured and muffled.

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In the industrialised West, we have become increasingly focussed on money as a goal and the accumulation of personal wealth, and it’s trappings, as our measure of success.

In short, the time is now or never, yet as set against a backdrop of “business as usual”, beyond the confines of human cultures, and considers more broadly our place on this planet, within the context of all life.

Opportunities to address climate change are not merely slipping through our fingers, but wilfully being cast aside.

Thus, the message is not just one of yet another traditional way of life being driven to extinction by climate change, but that because the Earth system is an interconnected and “living” organism, impacts on any component of it will be felt throughout, causing the body to sicken and die.

Change is frightening, and uncertainty even more so; thus we tend to cling to a familiar craft, even as it sinks.

But, if we want a world that is both habitable and agreeable into the future, for all Earthlings, our choices are limited to those which also reduce the conjoined burdens of our rapidly consuming finite resources and the carbon emissions and other pollution that are discharged in the process.

However, due to the tardiness of our efforts, the scale and rate of the changes now required are staggering, amounting to an 8-10% reduction in carbon emissions per year in the wealthiest nations of the world, which presents as a practically insurmountable challenge.

If Capitalism in all its forms usher in a definite of sustained mitigation of carbon emissions, it is highly unlikely that climate targets will be met.

Full collapse is not yet inevitable, or already crumbling out of our hands change might yet be managed.  

Albert Einstein is quoted, perhaps apocryphally, as saying (something like):

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking…no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.”

Is this the world you want.

The perils of treating natural capital as income, are evident to all.

We do not have enough fresh water for the people.. Billions of people are subject to hunger today. So the new model must consider all these needs. This model must be more human and more nature oriented… We are all interconnected but we keep acting as though we are completely autonomous.”

Change requires all of us developed a deeper recognition of our common humanity.

Instead of merely documenting loss of habit, bio-diversity, air and water quality, and more, we have to work with the larger society to do a better job of maintaining invaluable and irreplaceable ecosystem services. 

This can only be achieved by education. Education that balances the sciences with the humanities.

Education that prepares children to live in a changing world by emphasizing critical thinking and learning-to-learn as much more than rote memorization.

(The below video ALUNA should be shown in all schools.)  

Such a world won’t be achieved overnight. 

BECAUSE THE CAPITALIST WORLD IS NOW WITH THE HELP OF ALGORITHIMS GOING UNDERGROUND. 

If there is to be any movement in the right direction we can only make the Capitalists world change its short term model of profit for profit sake with our buying power.  By boycotting any corporations/ companies/ organisations/ etc that dont have sustainability at their core of their business models.  

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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. IS THERE AN INVISABLE AGENDA BEHIND THE RUSSIAN – URKRAIN INVASION.

26 Friday Aug 2022

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( Three minute read) 

Is there now another epoch-making struggle going on in the background?

 Are we caught in-between globalist agenda for total control?

There have been many wars — terrible wars — fought on Planet Earth over the past 100 years.  We know that wars lead to deaths, destruction and lay the foundations for the next war.

The Ukraine conflict is fundamentally a war between East and West, between radically different cultures, different races, different religious orientations, and between very different people there is just no telling how this ongoing saga will end up.

However, the greatest war of them all could literally be around the corner, unless it is stopped by the people of this planet.Ukraine-9bd90

While there are several weighty co-factors at work, there are also numerous variables which can short-circuit the extremely precarious current trajectory toward full scale nuclear war.  

Were that to happen, this world can forget it ever existed and say goodbye to our cosmic identity.  

So what is behind this war or any war for that matter. 

Consciousness is limited by identity. and identity is limited by ignorance with most people tending to identify themselves with narrow categories – a nationality, a race, a religion, which leads not only to conflict but also to a stunting of imagination and potential. 

If we could widen our sense of identity, into the universe, we would  be saved from untold trial and tribulation.

When we see ourselves this way it would be the first steps towards identifying with our place in a universe ( that we have convincing evidence actually exists) in which no wars will change the light of different outcomes. 

Of course all of this is far in the future.   

It is clear that the Ukraine is shaping up to be the “War of the Millennium” and things will change very quickly depending on where one is domiciled on the planet. 

Why? 

Because globalization has inextricably interconnected the financial and economic sectors throughout the community of nations, each and every market is deeply affected by the other markets and the ongoing technospheric breakdown, which is now accelerating (due to Global Climate Change,) will only add more fuel to this fire.

In Vladimir Putin, the West is confronting a polished warrior who will not be intimidated or threatened, deceived or bamboozled, bulldozed or railroaded … as the Anglo-American Axis (AAA) does everywhere else on the Planet Earth.

Historically, Russia has always gone its own way.

After all, it is world supremacy vs. national sovereignty which is and has always really been at stake.

Given the realities of a much larger conflict going on in the Ukraine — one where East and West are at loggerheads in the most profound and fundamental ways — there is very little that can be done on the political level or diplomatic fronts … unless the West relents.   

This is a struggle for a new “indivisible world” includes “indivisible security”, “indivisible diplomacy” and “indivisible wealth”

The final breaking point has not yet arrived, but as the war intensifies the Ukraine appears to be the real location of Armageddon.

At present Ukraine is the very claw of a bird that has force the power of this world to get into a sanctions war, introduce sanctions that are unprofitable for themselves, or extremely unpleasant from the point of view of political consequences, and get a demonstration of the impossibility of achieving their goals by such methods.

Without Ukraine-2022, this would be impossible. This is exactly what are we starting to observe right now.

You don’t have to be told that it is very easy to start a war and a total other kettle of fish to stop.

Take the Iraq it started with Weapons of Mass Deception.  

The question is when should our hard earned income be paying for state-supported killing and the obscene loss of innocent lives, nattily called “collateral damage.”

When should we back decisions that cause untold trauma, pain, suffering, dismemberment, mutilation and death in the name of freedom and ferreting out terrorists.

War clearly generates money for weapons manufacturers, arms dealers, and many corporate entities who profit from conflict.

How can we make peace pay?

Without our money and our acquiescence, there can be no wars. 

The rapid advancement of technology is not only fundamentally altering the ‘game’ it is the Game.. What if they gave a war and nobody showed up? 

Of course, the people don’t want war…But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.”

— Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials. 

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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. HAS THE BBC NEWS LOST ITS BALLS.

25 Thursday Aug 2022

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Recently the BBC spent millions up dating its News broadcasting Room. The result appears to be that the new format is crippling the quality of its reporting, with the weather taking up five minutes.

The World’s Newsroom is supposed to be a fusion of the BBC’s international journalism and state-of-the-art technology, pulled together under one roof.

But it appears since England left the European Union the BBC is now rapidly becoming a news platform that is afraid to express a view, because its priorities are all wrong.

The BBC could learn a lot from its competitor – Al – Jazeera.  They broadcast the sort of foreign news reports which the BBC used to be brilliant at.  It is the news to go to for a world view.

The BBC’s foreign news coverage is a shadow of what it was.

Lets hope it gets its balls back.

In order to offer the rationality behind the news stories, not with its broadcaster’s repeating line like parrots, as if their brains can only cope with sounds bit.  Dumping mush in the form of needless padding and pointing at graphs that they appear to think we cannot see – the line going up is bad the line going down is good.

What does ‘public service broadcasting’ actually mean? How does the BBC adapt to a world in which TV (not radio) audiences are on an apparently inexorable decline as young people consume their media via anything other than a TV screen?

We are now seeing the results of misguided policy, of having no new voices where politicians are held to account through rigorous interviewing.

Andrew Marr quit the show that bore his name last year, saying he wanted to get his “own voice back”.

His Sunday morning politics show was a staple of British political discourse. Marr hosted it for 16 years.

Laura Kuenssberg had been in discussions about a move to the Today programme. It is expected she will receive a pay rise from her existing £260,000 salary. Marr received £335,000 in his role.

His show was axed and replaced by Sunday morning Politics where the interviewed barely gets a couple of sentences out before someone butts in. It’s not a format in which it’s really possible to hold a politician to account because the time for follow-up questions isn’t there,  lamentable.

The trouble with most current affairs shows nowadays is that the interviewee is well aware that the interview is only likely to last a maximum of 5 minutes, so they pre-prepare all their soundbite lines and trot them out whatever they’re asked.

If the BBC can’t cover news and politics properly, you really have to wonder what it’s for.

So for crying out get a grip and report the news that matters not the number of gold medal but the numbers that really count.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S. LIVING A LIFE IS BECOMING SO COMPLICATED THAT WE NOT LIVING BUT EXISTING.

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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( Four minute read) 

The paradox of our time is that we have so many choices available to us that many of us struggle to make any choice at all.

It like if real life is happing somewhere very far away, happing with out us and we will never find out where to become part of it. 

Why is this? 

Because our smart phone and the inter net has and is creating a world of such complexity 

much of the beauty of the world is hidden in its influence on life. 

They day of slipping off into the desert for forth days and nights have long gone.

Because every human is so different and complex in there own ways between ,religious differences, political differences, moral differences, ego and greed ext.…that it is impossible for life, the world, or mankind to ever not be complicated place.

Probably the reality is much more complicated than that. 

It can be complicated by our genetic history; it can be complicated by environmental issues; it can be complicated by our own social circumstances; it can be complicated by things we aren’t even aware of–and really that’s the point.

The world itself is extremely simple, if we just get over ourselves and look at things for what they really are instead of centring everything around us, we would find this world as too simple yet too beautifully connected.

Instead most of us live life in clutter of anxiety comparing yourself with others constantly.  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc.

We’re in danger of letting life pass us by while we click away.

Every time we try to simplify the world–which makes sense that we’d want to–but every time we try, we end up becoming essentially somewhat delusional. Delusional in that we believe things to be true when they are not true. So we simplify our view of politics by saying, “Oh, those politicians, they are all crooked.”

We lose the ability to see beauty and experience beauty and even become part of that beauty. It’s the complexity and intertwining of nature, that when we go out into nature it satisfies us.

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One way to efficiently cut your time of social media is creating time blocks in which you can access social media. 

Go backpacking and embrace complexity then you will see the inherent  beauty in it.

Any small change in one variable can vastly transform your life.

  “You will never know all the variables”, the vast size of earth and its population alone is complex in itself.

It’s the same reason their will always be war, corruption and political upheaval ,humans most lusted “addiction” is CONFLICT….This then creates even more complexity since people are striving for different goals.

Can anything be done about making the world more simple? 

If there is you would have a completely different story to tell.

Unfortunately its too late to go back and correct it. That moment is forever gone. Everyone is going about life in a different way.

We have stopped being ourselves. We hide ourselves way too much from the outside world.

Consumerism has dominated and become synonymous with western society.

We fall into the trap of needing more and more and more. The most advanced technology, a bigger house, the newest fashion style, the upgraded car. We end up continually chasing fake needs to enlarge our fake egos and maintain a fake status in this illusionary world of consumerisms we’ve created.

Money can’t buy everything, but without money, you can’t buy anything.

If I possess the ability to wield capital as a weapon, then I too can influence the world like the smartest man.

There’s an unlimited amount of future knowledge for the human race to learn.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways”.
-Sigmund Freud.

Actions taking place on the atomic scale is just so hard to be perceived by the human brain that we simply use equations to describe them, without fully understanding the quantum processes that make these reactions possible.

The universe is unimaginably complex. The more you add, the more life gets complicated.

Nobody talks about the life skills you actually be needing when you become an adult.

But the positive side of all this drama is you get the satisfaction of doing and knowing things when you do it yourself. 

Gratitude is the key to living a meaningful life, practice it and you find that life’s complexities are manageable.

 

THE BEADY EYE ASKS. WHAT IN TODAYS WORLD IS THE VALUE OF A HUMAN LIFE?

23 Tuesday Aug 2022

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A profoundly ethical issue.

“What makes a life worth living?” “What is a life worth? ” are both questions that nobody can answer and should perhaps remain unanswered.

These questions once came pre-answered—by culture, by religion, by tradition—but these days, because of capitalism we each have to ask and answer for ourselves, with an answer not in poetic words or any words but an answer in pounds and pence or dollars and cents.

The “real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life?”

The task of valuing life has many competing truths with no simple answer.

“Price tags are being continuously placed on our lives. If we care about equity, we need to ensure that the science behind these estimates is not oversold and that fairness is always a consideration when cost-benefit analysis is performed.”

Howard Steven Friedman

Valuing some lives more than others seems logical and natural to many of us.

We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something.

Aristotle concluded that we should value human life, due to our inherent capacity for reason.

So what reasons can we give for calling human life valuable?

The question’s complexity resides in the fact that how we arrive at a price tag on human life says a great deal about our priorities. A lot of the value we attribute to human life comes from religion. However, when you remove religion, what philosophical arguments are left?

This is were it gets tricky.

The philosopher’s job is not to accept the assumed inheritance of our forebears.

Do we determine the value of a human life based on the value we place on our lives in private decisions, and do we accept policy choices that puts future generations at risk.

Do we continue to value human life, especially above and beyond animals? If you value rationality, why is that? And does rationality, alone, bestow value on a human life?

How should we proceed?

We teach each generation that human life is valuable beyond all else.

.Is this good enough today?

Government officials are supposed to put numbers on the pros and cons of these questions but how to assess the value of a human life in financial terms is riddled with conundrum based on our behaviour which has no common denominators to adjust our assessment of a life’s value based on its quality or the probability of death?

How much should we pay today to prevent an event that would result in the loss of ten billion human lives in 50 years?    Climate Change.

So, how much is a life worth?

It seems so inhumane to put a monetary value our modern sentiments tell us that costs should not dictate life-and-death decisions. But those modern sentiments do not fit our modern experience.

We know that not all lives are valued by society equally.

Over the past four centuries, generations of black people have asked the question: What is a black life worth?

The summation of historical facts and statistical data clearly shows that the prices of black bodies in America are worth more imprisoned, enslaved, and dead than educated.

Here in Europe depending on all sorts of assumptions arisen by the Covid pandemic and now the war in the Ukraine there are a lots of conversations (right now) that seem to pit economics against life and health.

The result is the cost of living is mounting day on day while its value is descending but don’t worry your value is being look after by  the invisible hand of the market  run algorithms is giving your value the finger.

Unfortunately GDP distribution issue are now surfacing, like where is the GDP growth actually coming from?  Who’s losing income?  Does it increase equity in society?

How much a person is willing to accept to risk their own life – Climate change.

In the end the answer is my life is worth everything to me.

How much money do you get for losing a limb? It depends on where you live.

How much body parts worth workers compensation 4

Foot note . What’s wrong with killing people?

Abortion kills babies, and its advocates are loudly telling us the value they place on human life.

The idea is that we can best understand what life is worth by first understanding what death means.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS; WHAT IS THE PROBABLE TRAJECTERY OF EDUCATION IN THE FUTURE?

19 Friday Aug 2022

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When considering the future impact of technology on teaching and learning there is an element of crystal ball gazing so, I am sure that there will be many critics of this post.

We still have a long way to go, though, in terms of how we are taking advantage of technology within the classroom for education is actually a way for telling us how far we haven’t come.Recapturing The Human Imagination - Transcending Times

Albert Einstein famously asserted, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Up to now education it is too directed to earning a living rather than the values that allow us to live in the first place.

We live in a fully globalized world in which more people than ever are connected via the web. One of the significant results of this greater communication and access to advanced technology is the deluge of information we receive – news, entertainment, opinions, advertisements and so on but non of them will replace teachers.

Learning is a natural part of us and what defines us as a species.

As artificial intelligence and other technologies transform various professions, the most valued and secure jobs will be those that require complex social skills such as teaching.

They as the world we live in changes to embrace tech, will have to proactively manage how innovations unfold. 

Why?

Because what we teach in our education system will be reshaped to keep up to date with the growing demands of the 21st century.

The problem is what to teach.

When it comes todays education we have intellectualized it too much, we have complicated and over tinkered with something that should be a beautiful part of our existence.

Putting back values in education.

The problems and question now concerning education are.

We are now outsource thinking and rely on supposedly smart tech to micromanage our daily lives for the sake of cheap convenience?

Are smartphones lowering our IQ?

Should creativity be the sole focus?

Is an emphasis on learning how to learn the key, or do children need to develop a vast general fund of information?

Is google responsible for dimming our ability to think for ourselves, making us dumber?

Is online learning the way forward or is the screen right in the palm of our hands—or the screen in front of our faces turning us into digital citizens?Latest Electronic Games Debut At E3 Expo

The over-reliance on technology for basic knowledge may be replacing humans’ general fund of information.

The challenge we face worldwide is how teachers, parents, leadership, and communities will help learners design intelligently and innovate with compassion, to teach non-discrimination and respect for others.

To understand that prejudices can hinder the ability to think and live in peace.

To understand the challenges to the natural world and bio-diversity.

To become familiar with examining and understanding different points of view.

To handle social media which now dominates as a real-time feed for news, stories and world sentiment.

To understand sustainability when its comes to values.

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces. In essence, knowledge matters, as our brains will not develop ideas that will change—and improve—the world without an adequate general fund of information.

What is needed.

Free education to make educational background irrelevant with a year of citizen conscription without the smartphone, I pad or laptop, to teach respect and a understanding of what it means to be human, to stand on one’s own feet.

Retrieval practice is one of the best methods to learn information. If you aren’t trying to retrieve information to bring it to your thoughts—instead pulling out your phone—this may be problematic for not only a general fund of knowledge but also for the ability to initiate creative contemplations in the future.

Using search engines and voice-assistants for things we previously had to retrieve from our memories is continually affecting our kids (and us) in rather unforeseen ways.

The changes in lifestyle could be what’s behind these lower IQs, perhaps its due to the way children are educated, the way they’re brought up, and the things they spend time doing more and less (the types of play they engage in, ( whether they read books, and so on).

To thrive in the workplace of the future, skills such as creativity, collaboration, communication and problem-solving will become must-have competencies for future specialists as the market will see a huge increase in jobs requiring a set of skills incorporating virtual reality and multiple perspectives on mew platform that will give students an opportunity to learn how to negotiate issues and exchange ideas online.

Due to the need to give education more individual approach with students covering the material with study tools adapted to capabilities of a student online education will become more and more revealing in the cloud as more ubiquitous connectivity drives a significant increase in the blending of informal and formal learning.

In the end it will not be the device that will make the learner smarter, it will be the teacher.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. WILL WE FIND GOD WITH THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE

18 Thursday Aug 2022

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This isn’t an easy question, because in order to understand where something came from, we have to first know precisely what it is.

Despite all we know, there are some epic unknowns that have no solution at present.

When it comes to the Universe if we want to know how it got to be that way, we have to apply the laws of physics to the Universe, and follow the evolution of the physical systems that we know exist.

To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself.

Newton stands on Einstein who in turn stands on the work of some future theorist. Each offers a closer approximation to a core reality, but not necessarily the “whole truth.”

But no matter when in the past or the future we would’ve asked this question, taking a scientific approach to it would always yield the same cosmic story.

Here’s where we are today.

We know that our planet, like every other planet in the Universe, is made of atoms.

We know that planets both float freely through the galaxy and also orbit stars.

We know how gravitation works.

We know how electromagnetism works.

We know how the nuclear forces work.

We know hydrogen and helium, when we examine the cosmos, are everywhere. In fact, they’re so abundant that they make up over 99% of the atoms in the Universe; fewer than 1% of the atoms out there, by number, are anything heavier.

We know, based on the observed facts of the Universe, that it must have been born with the seeds of what would become its large-scale structure: an initial spectrum of over dense and under dense regions.

We know it is expanding, cooling, and becoming gravitationally “clumpier” over time, that tells us that, early on, the Universe was smaller, denser, hotter, and more uniform than it is today.

We know how to time-evolve any physical system that we start off with.

Put simply, if you give a physicist a set of initial conditions that describe the system, they can write down equations that govern the evolution of that system, and can tell you — to the limits of the uncertainty and indeterminism inherent to nature — what the outcome (or probabilistic set of outcomes) of that system will be at any point in the future.

Fortunately, when we look out into the Universe, we see the very processes that are required for this to occur in action.

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What could be more complicated than the universe itself, which contains everything complicated we know, including galaxies, proteins and manuals for assembling robots.

That’s what the Universe is.

But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore? The farther back we go, we find we run into an inevitable problem:  The Universe cannot provide answers beyond a certain point.

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Scientific facts are not simply discovered but rather constructed through a social process that depends partly on the status and prestige of the people involved.

Unlike philosophers of the ancient world, cosmologists are not just trying to out-argue one another with their theories. They are measuring, sometimes with breath-taking precision, the concrete physical parameters on which our understanding of the universe is based.

Reality abides by rules of logic and that theories can be improved based on how well their predictions fit with observations.  Something that is independent of human belief systems and political rhetoric.

Scientists, whatever their initial starting points, are converging on a singular truth.

In other words, the evidence we draw from the natural world should ultimately be pointing us toward the same description of reality.

In an era when scientific facts guide our responses to pandemics, climate change and other pressing challenges our understanding of the universe of galaxies, stars, penguins and people is never more important. Our universe is the only piece of reality seemingly capable of producing life, including creatures with the capacity to wonder what reality is all about.

Is life just a chance by-product of nature’s laws or necessary aspect of them?

James Webb Space Telescope

Recent images from the newly commissioned James Webb Space Telescope are revealing something bigger than humans and their social networks.

Light from the cosmic dawn of the universe has always been there, coming down towards us, carrying tales from the edge of time itself.

Now, with the help of the James Weep telescope , we can finally meet the faint luminous glow from the period immediately following the Big Bang.

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The James Webb Space Telescope is already discovering new worlds. Filling the gaps in chemical evolution?

It will allow for the detection of chemical signatures from galaxies formed billions of years ago and compare them with newer systems.

I suppose its real goal is explain the natural phenomena of the Universe without resorting to spirits, evil influences, established authority, or God, but rather on the basis of principles or laws of nature. 

Psychologically the Universe was once filled with gods and angels that are now vanishing replaced with emptiness except for matter and forces.

So heaven if it exists is in a separate spiritual realm that does not lie within the physical universe. Neither we or gods are essential to the universe.  Yet Physics claims to define physical reality, treating humans as objects, so we are left wondering whether anything in the Universe recognized us as more than that.

Perhaps we were just a random occurrence on a average planet and uncaring scheme of things.

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If you want to see what the Webb is looking at the next time you look up at the stars imagine that you have lost you memory and there is only this moment. 

You are not conscious of any moment before this one.

You are alive but how did you get to this spot on which you are standing or lying down.

You have no idea. Who are you?  There is no answer. 

You are like a robot with hormones. You have lost your soul.  You are the latest improved model, believing in the latest programs. This is all you know. 

Instead imagine that you can send your consciousness back at the speed of light.  Down the countless generations to your primate ancestors, thought all the animals that ever existed, into a single cell with the complex chemicals that made it possible, into the elementary particles in the Big Bang. 

This is science of the Webb. 

You are all this. The sum total of all history.  Who much of your own identity do you claim – its up to you but the story of origins continues to belong solely to religion.

The trouble with finding god will be as always which god will it be. 

In the end the James Webb has comparatively simpler problem of understanding the nature of the universe at large.

Anything could happen.

We may not have teleportation yet, but we are going boldly (visually) where no human has ever gone before!  

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