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When we go beyond the
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Home page of, Don Chisholm
Near Picton, Ontario, Canada
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I
told You So!! |
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(Photo and caption of a painting in a
seafood restaurant in Lunenburg Nova Scotia – originator unidentified) |
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The photo above represents warnings from a
flat-earth mentality hundreds of years ago – don’t go beyond the limits!! Since those times science has brought us
many technological wonders and growing knowledge of our planet’s limits to growth of human activity.
Ironically, the way we govern ourselves remains rooted in flat-earth
mentality – unable and unwilling to acknowledge our limits to growth in a finite planet. The graphic below is a science-based
projection to illustrate collapsing elements of human civilization as we pass
though the limits to growth in
population and consumption of the once robust ecological resources of planet
Earth. |
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They told us So!! |
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Graphic is from a 2010 review of
projections made 50 years earlier in the seminal work, Limits To Growth, an effort fostered by scientists of the Club Of Rome, and implemented by a
team or researches at MIT. The
original projections depict future events when governments operate, Business
As Usual (BAU). The 2010 review is by the Smithsonian
Magazine,
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My
career background is engineering. 30 years ago I became aware of the contrast
between or government’s growth oriented goals, and our planet’s limits to growth. I
began to study economics, psychology, and a few other areas pertinent to
understanding why, intelligent as individuals,
collectively we meekly follow the titanic pathways of today’s
governance. It seems that we are
locked in a form of paradigm paralysis with roots in human nature and a
corporate/economic/monetary system that grew out of another era. Today
we observe and feel the bad things happening to Earth’s living systems
as we move beyond, limits to growth, and
into the chaotic time period our children and grandchildren face. But governments ignore the sciences in
continued pursuit of ever more growth in human activity. During
this continuing study period, I have written a variety of papers and articles
as noted below. Below
that is information on my personal background. |
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**\\\\\/////** Recent papers Most recent, Paradigm
Junction,
is a six section web-based booklet.
The first three sections provide overview of the roots of
today’s fatally flawed growth paradigm and also suggest essential knowledge
tools needed to build an interactive scientifically guided resource-based
economic and sociopolitical system that, if implemented, could avoid the
inevitable collapse of today’s growth-based corporate governance. The chapters of Section Four provide
details of one possible desirable future scenario, and how collective changes
starting today could lead us toward that goal. The Synopsis has been
expanded to provide casual readers a more detailed overview and to clarify
the intent of Paradigm Junction. The intent of the Paradigm Junction Project (PJP) is to assemble an
interdisciplinary team to create the skeleton framework of a socially, politically
and economically viable paradigm. And then to capture the energy of the
growing social unrest among today’s young generation who fear for their
future under BAU. See – http://gaiapc.ca/PJ/BPG/PJ-Overview-web.htm On
the page of Gaia Preservation Coalition, there are some essays and
presentations between 2000 and today. These
can be seen at: Papers since year 2000 on the GPC page. Not so recent papers: Published Journals: Note: (This web seem
abandoned). One of the articles
is posted here
Series 1 Number 16: December, 1995 Energy and the Rocket Society: At the Apogee The Journal Futures, Butterworth Heinemann UK Volume 27, No.3 pp353 – 362 1995 A
Troubleshooter’s Analysis Of The Human Predicament A 21st Century Steward’s Handbook This 230 page manuscript had final grooming with editor, professor Richard Slaughter,
(Co-director of Foresight Institute). Prior to acceptance, about 500
manuscript copies we distributed/sold to a wide variety of readers. A common comment from readers
indicated this was “magnum opus” of the big picture Gaia/human
relationship. The
manuscript was accepted for publishing in ‘95 by Adamantine Press of
UK. The 12 sections are now posted in pdf form. a-Cover-Index.pdf
Cover and Chapter titles with page numbers of specific discussions. b-Preface-Intro.pdf
Preface and
Introduction: introducing the
idea that we all have a partial responsibility in the human predicament. c-Chapter 1.pdf The
Triad of Energy, Time & Mass: A general description of what the book
is about. Systems, feedback and
dynamics are introduced as fundamental concepts of big picture thinking. d-Chapter 2.pdf How
It All Started: From the Gaia theory to today’s world, very
abbreviated. e-Chapter3.pdf
Energy, Fuel Of Life:
How energy relates to biology and civilizations with speculation of human
carrying capacity if renewable energy was the only limiting factor. f-Chapter4.pdf
Evidence of Gaiacide: Gives facts and figures on ecological
decline as seen in 1995. Today we
have same as today, only it is much worse and human population has grown from
5.7 billion to 7 billion. g-Chapter5.pdf
Evidence Of The Sacred Cow
Syndrome: Giving examples
of how contemporary writers and society in general ignore the, in-your-face
hard evidence that our human activity is destroying the fabric of life on
Earth. h-Chapter6.pdf
Anchored In The Past: This section discusses the cultural,
religious and economic bonds that keep us looking toward the future as if it
were the past. i-Chapter7-1.pdf
Human Nature Part One:
This section speculates on our biological characteristics that prevent us
from collectively coming to grips with today’s critical issue. j-Chapter7-2.pdf Human
Nature Part One: This section speculates on our cultural based
behaviors that prevent us from collectively coming to grips with
today’s critical issue. k-Chapter7-meditation.pdf
Meditation: A brief section on leadership, beliefs
and individual responsibility.
Introduced are 12 personal Gaia Principles. i-Chapter8.pdf The
Rise And Fall Of INDCOM:
A brief history of Industry and Commerce showing some historical blips
and the lack of systemic feedback with the real Gaia world. m-Chapter9.pdf
Morality, Values and Other
Considerations: Summary
of some elements of past chapters
and suggests such thing as, your right to procreate in our
finite overcrowded world, is my partly my business. n-Chapter10.pdf
Recovery: Discussion of advanced contemporary
thinking, and visualizing and planning.
A backcast (spoken from the future) describes an envisioned chaotic
journey from 2000 era to 2100 times. o-Chapter11.pdf
The New Story: Brief summary and a personal note. p-Chapter12-Letters.pdf
Supportive letters from readers of the emerging manuscript. More at Papers since year 2000 on the
GPC page. Links: Gaia
Preservation Coalition, an International NGO: http://gaiapc.ca |
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Personal background |
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The basics: About four years were spent at the Canadian Airforce research
facility base at Cold Lake Alberta, CEPE, at first as a systems specialist on
the CF-104 Starfighter navigation system, and later as head of maintenance of
computers and other devises at the data processing center. I carried out various specialty
projects at the request of the site Wing Commander. As a sideline project I developed an
underwater locator device as a tool for commercial ice fishermen to track equipment
moving under the ice. For 18 years I owned a company in Montreal, Quebec, that dealt in
aircraft electronic systems, sales and service. During this period I obtained
a private pilot's license. I spent time as Director and then VP of the
Canadian Region, branch of the Aircraft
Electronics Association.
During those years I took on maintenance contracts for then leading-edge
digital data processing equipment associated with engineering drafting. After returning to Ontario, I had a lead role in design of a line of
computerized test equipment, and then in marketing the product to airlines of
the world. This product line, the
IRIS2000 Series, is still being marketed.
My last for-pay job was with the Federal Government as Inspector in
Air Regulation. This job involved
quality assurance systems audit of corporations involved in manufacturing or
maintenance of aircraft and their components. After retiring at the end of 1999, we moved from Toronto to a rural
setting near the town of Picton, in Prince Edward
County, a peninsula that, on a map, appears as an appendage into the Eastern
end of Lake Ontario. Here I co-founded a local group, the http://countysustainability.ca We have a bi-weekly column in a local weekly newspaper: I write some of the articles on sustainability related
issues. Further details at: http://gaiapc.ca/PJ/BPG/1e-BioOfWriter.htm <<<<^^^^>>>>
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