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illconsidered | October 22, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 21, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CBD-COP11, Mayor, Knight, OIF, Uranium, GCF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | October 18, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 9
Table of Contents
Chapter 11
Chapter 10
Robert Fontaine, July 18, 2055
I was heading for the library when I got a phone call from Bessie Waters, a neighbour who visited with dad occasionally. She was worried. "I knocked on the door and there was no answer," she said. "I think you should check on him."
I was supposed to give a lecture late that afternoon. I called my old faculty advisor, Dr. Yablonski, to arrange a substitute and headed home.
Bessie was not around. The kitchen was as I had left it. The house was dark and quiet. For a second before…
illconsidered | October 15, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
October 14, 2012
Wonderment, COP18+, State of the Planet, Conservation Targets, Maldives
Subsidies, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | October 10, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 8
Table of Contents
Chapter 10
Chapter 9
Henry, June 10, 2055
When Thursday rolled around, I rode my bike over to Fontaine Enterprises on Woodward. I arrived about a quarter to four. Matt and I sat in his office drinking coffee which wasn't ersatz.
The room was bipolar; half administration, half draughting room. Rolls of paper and plans littered a work table at one end. A coffee machine sat on a counter beside a sink which marked the functional division of the room. Jon arrived at four on the nose and Matt pulled out another mug. We waited for Henry…
illconsidered | October 8, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
October 7, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, 50 Months, Too Conservative?, CCS vs Renewables, Maldives
Bottom Line, Hochberg, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food…
illconsidered | October 3, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 7
Table of Contents
Chapter 9
Chapter 8
Jacy, June 7, 2055
I spent a couple of fruitless hours in the laboratory reading the absorption spectra of an extremeophile bacteria, then headed home. After supper, dad went to bed early. I cleaned up and retreated to the library. As I was sitting down, my eye happened to fall on an old paper magazine whose cover blared "Jacy Strikes" over a picture of a devastated city.
The year that Hypercane Jacy destroyed Houston, America got religion about global warming. A strong Category 5 hurricane, almost 2,000 km.…
illconsidered | October 1, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 30, 2012
Chuckles, Rio+20, UNGA, DARA, Attitudes, Maldives, Too Conservative?, Reichler
Bottom Line, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO…
illconsidered | September 26, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 6
Table of Contents
Chapter 8
Chapter 7
Teaser, June 4, 2055
A couple of weeks later, I received a curious invitation. It was courier delivered snail mail, a photocopy of a letter of inquiry from some guy to a toy company, which read:
Dear Customer Service,
I am a happily married engineer with a 4 year old daughter, Rena. Recently as I was home sick, I sent the babysitter home for the day.
You can imagine my considerable alarm when I walked into the front room and found my little angel cutting up the hand of her toy doll. And I am sure you…
illconsidered | September 24, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
September 23, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Arctic Nukes, Séralini, Arctic Sea Ice
Bottom Line, Weather Machine, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Ring Seals, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO…
illconsidered | September 19, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 5
Table of Contents
Chapter 7
Chapter 6
The Great Hunger, May 19, 2055
I took my bike to university the next day so I could go grocery shopping on the way home. After two classes in the afternoon, the last one spent trying to fire some enthusiasm for the computational beauty of genetics in a dozen second years when the only thing on their minds was the end of term exams, I was more than ready to leave.
At the co-op store, an unhappy knot of customers clustered around the profile tills. The iris scanners were offline. The profile economy was a side…
illconsidered | September 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
September 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IAC, Death Valley, Bottom Line, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, TV Weather
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Fauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | September 11, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 4
Table of Contents
Chapter 6
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 5
FabNet, May 18, 2055
I sat at the window watching Matt roll away in his electric chariot. When he was gone, I stared at the lake musing how different we were. We were identical and yet we weren't. Matt definitely had a unique way of looking at things.
It started when he was a teenager. He picked up a second hand 3-D printer for next to nothing at a yard sale. 3-D printers, or fabs, short for fabricators, were capable of building any desired object layer by layer out of plastic or ceramic goop. "They're not…
illconsidered | September 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
September 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CAT, Maldives
Subsidies, GFIs, Pricing Nature, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Speculation, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | September 5, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 3
Table of Contents
Chapter 5
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 4
Matt, May 18. 2055
When I got home from CCU, Matt was over talking to dad. We sat around the kitchen table catching up. Jon had got the job with the Senator. Matt was predictably down on politicians.
After a while Dad got visibly tired. "I'm sorry boys, but my getup-and-go got up and went." He pushed himself to his feet and headed slowly down the hall to the bedroom.
Matt watched him go and asked sotto voce, "Does he do that often?"
"What's that?"
"Just conk out like that. It's only seven thirty."
I looked…
illconsidered | September 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 2, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, PIF, AMS, Wadham, Maldives EU-Aus ETS, GCF, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMO Labelling,…
illconsidered | August 30, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 2
Table of Contents
Chapter 4
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 3
Electronic Democracy, May 11, 2055
As I walked to CCU, I thought about what Jon was getting into. It was just like him to breeze in, drop a zinger and split before anyone could reply sensibly.
When I was growing up, I instinctively avoided politics. I knew the broad outline of our political history, only because it was unavoidable. A lot of what had happened in North America revolved around energy.
Dad lived through the oil crunch and sometimes he tried to explain to us what life was like before. He grew up…
illconsidered | August 28, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
August 26, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Overshoot Day, The Critical Decade, GCF, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | August 22, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 1
Table of Contents
Chapter 3
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 2
Externalities, May 11, 2055
When I got downstairs, Jon was sitting in one of the big deep chairs in the rec room, the bottle of wine on a low table in front of him. "I have an idea I want to bounce off you," he said, gesturing at the wine.
"Okay, but first I have to tell you something."
When he is not pushing some political theory, Jon is inclined to be judgemental, especially when it comes to Matt, but he surprised me by laughing when I told him why the marriage was off.
"I warned him his prick would get him…
illconsidered | August 20, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
August 19, 2012
Chuckles, G20, Ocean Health Index, CSIRO, BEST, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Greenland, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | August 15, 2012The Bottleneck Years
Chapter 0
Table of Contents
Chapter 2
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 1
The Burning Lake, May 11, 2055
I don't know what Matt said to dad, but whatever it was, it didn't take long. I had a quick shower downstairs and changed clothes, thinking to head back to university. By the time I got back upstairs, Jon had arrived. He had been in the Arctic doing community outreach work for a mining company and now he was in the kitchen talking to dad. For a second I stood at the top of the stairs watching them.
Jon looked incredibly straight --- like an advertisement for the chamber of…