The “Glide Path” to Sustainability will Raise Recycling to a Large Scale Art

As population declines in the latter half of the 21st century new construction will be cut to a minimum, and renovation and recycling of existing buildings will dominate the construction industry.  Few new buildings will be needed as populstion decreases, growth will no longer be the predominant economic theme, and decreasing tax bases will reduce public funding. People may move out of some neighborhoods and towns and collect in others, probably to live closer to places of employment, education, etc., and reduce their cost of living.  Will smart individuals start working today to build profitable businesses that take advantage of the changes in our future?

I Hate Lawns

Yes, it’s true. I hate lawns. I didn’t always hate them, though I never particularly liked cutting and maintaining them. (It helped when I was a child and was paid to cut them.)

Is Humanity a Blight on the Face of an Otherwise Beautiful Planet?

To answer this question one must step back, perhaps a long way, from the human-centered concepts we’ve been taught all our lives. Certainly it is natural for any species to experience a runaway population when it achieves some level of ascendency in its environment. But we have evolved to a level where we can see and understand that, as well as what we are doing to the rest of the species on the planet, from microbes to other top predators. Are we smart enough to change our ways, curb our birthrate, preserve what is left of our natural world, and achieve (eventually) a sustainable long term situation that lets us live good lives while sustaining the ability of the other species on whom we symbiotically depend to live good lives as well? Only time will tell, but these ideas deserves both thought and action from each of us.

As always, I welcome your comments. – Tim