The Sustainability Principle
 of Energy

 

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The Power of Symbols

What is a Prime Symbol?

Variations on the Wisdom Of Confucius

How to Conserve
the Potential

The Human Condition

General Theory

Practical Application

Index of Denial/Acceptance

The Joys in 
Acceptance
Are you vulnerable to denial?
Review Call
Evaluate your
teachers /media
The Compassionate Curriculum
 
Defining some Prime Symbols

Energy

Energy Efficiency

Power

Electricity

Greenhouse

Warming/Cooling

Science

Information

Carbon

Atmosphere

Climate Change

Exponential
Trace

Potential

Compassion

Conserve

Sustain
Environment
Market
Peak Oil
Conservation 
Principle of Energy
Use
Up/Down
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This website is devoted to revealing the essence of energy so humanity may thrive and our daily lives be filled with wonderment and awe. 
It is a labour of love, dedicated to our children.

 

ENERGY !?
(A cartoon exploration -Chapter Five)

Preamble: 
Energy is a paradox. No one knows what it is and yet it is incredibly intimate. It enables every element of our being, from the elementary particles of our atoms to the farthest reaches of our universe(s). It is a wonderful and vital mystery. However we can learn from history that peoples that adopted flawed notions of energy tended to suffer excess misery and their civic structures collapsed.

The survival of human kind provides good reason to explore the nature of energy. An even greater reason is that the journey of exploration may well open us to amazing and wonderful experiences of existence.

We face major challenges along the way, perhaps none as extraordinary as those created by the ego that resides in each of us. This element of our psyche plays a pivotal role in determining our perceptions and is characterised by both an abhorrence of notions of mortality and an incredible, ingenious capacity for self-deceit. It is well capable of generating vast, sophisticated rationales of denial of change/stewardship and can easily make us our own worst enemy. Smile.


Chapter Five explores this hilarious and tragic behaviour as manifest in the current confusion of warming and warming up. This amounts to the complete denial of our laws of thermodynamics and a profound rejection of  the thermal processes that sustain life.

Enjoy.

ENERGY !?

Chapter Five: The Ego and Global Warming

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End Chapter Five: The Ego and Global Warming

Chapter Six - The Ego and Greenhouse Earth explores the advent of the Greenhouse religion with the Industrial Revolution and its widespread influence in contemporary Western culture.

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A quick search of "Stop Global Warming"  generates hundreds of Internet pictures associating global warming with malevolence - below are a sample from the first pages of results. They provide graphic evidence of the capacity of the ego to deny the flows and balances that sustain life.

This use of the "warming" symbol is a widespread phenomenon  and is part of a wider syndrome. The common factor in the use of many of our prime symbols is the denial of our roles amidst the universal change. 

A search  under "global warming is real" produces many similar results. The joke is that life would not exist on planet Earth if global warming were not real. If the continual warming process ceased then existence would become very unreal. Smile.

This search of the website of the Royal Society of New Zealand generates pages of links to articles demanding that we "stop global warming". This death wish can be found on the websites of a wide range of Environmental Education agencies and Carbon Trading businesses.

Click on illustration

 
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Updates and Additions

 

 

16 April 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter four -The Ego and Potential Energy
Our estrangement from the universal potential by our division of kinetic energy from potential energy.

 

5 March 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter three -The Ego and Forms of Energy
The grand confusion of forms and perspectives of energy.

 

26 Jan 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter two -The Ego and the Conservation Principle of Energy

The incredible inconvenience of this great principle.

 

8 Jan 2013

Energy ?! - Chapter one -Introducing The Ego and Energy
A cartoon exploration of our psychology and the the nature of energy.

 

 

22 Sept 2012

The Sustainability Principle of Energy
 and 
The Compassionate Curriculum.


(An Illustrated Essay - A brief Historical Overview)

 

 

 3 August 2012

Towards a sustainable education system

A graphic comparison of the New Zealand Curriculum Framework with the Compassionate Curriculum Framework with brief comment

 

31 January 2012

A Practical Guide to Enjoying True Hope

An essay exploring how the great principles of physics can help identify false hope and enable the experience of sustaining hope.

 

5 October 2011

"An Orwellian Climate"

Letters to Australasian Chief Science Advisors explaining contemporary confusion in climate care communication (Prof Peter Gluckman, Prof Ian Chubb, Prof Tim Flannery, Dr Andrew Glikson ) 

 

15 September 2011

The 2011 New Zealand Election Campaign

(A letter to New Zealand people alerting them to the dangers of the huge hidden yet in-your-face advertising campaign promoting the sale of our national assets.)

 

16 March 2011

Thought Experiments re the Carbon Trading Ethos

(Originally designed for the Office of the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.)

 

26 February 2011

Letter to Radio NZ

(Contains  reflections on broadcasts and ratings of the sustainability of a wide range of its programmes.)

 

29 November 2010 
The Joy in the Art of Civics

(Brief reflections on this state of being and the dangers of Environmental Education)

 

24 November 2010

Celebrating Our Climate   
(Draft one: A climate education framework founded in the Sustainability Principle of Energy offering an alternative vision of how we can communicate the role of humans in Earth's climate processes.) 

 

13 October 2010

Conversation with NZ Minister of Education (Anne Tolley) re the sustainability of the national education system. Read the Minister's letter and reflections on the flaws inherent in the Education Ministry's response.

 

4 November 2010

Letter to the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Introduction to the Sustainability Principle of Energy  with discussion of the nature of science.

 

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