Technology is a positive feed back system. When the output of the system increases the system goes at a higher rate. There is no equilibrium in a positive feedback system. Capitalism is such a system.
In a negative feed back system when the output increases the system goes at a slower pace or turns off completely, like the thermostatically controlled home heating furnace. Such a system seeks and maintains equilibrium. Our body is such a system.
As our world population continues to increase we (humanity) face a big question: How will we feed everybody? Until lately, India thought that they had found the answer for creating cheap food for their hundreds of millions.
“Farmers in the state of Punjab abandoned traditional farming methods in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the national program called the "Green Revolution," backed by advisers from the U.S. and other countries.
Indian farmers started growing crops the American way — with chemicals, high-yield seeds and irrigation.
Since then, India has gone from importing grain like a beggar, to often exporting it.
But studies show the Green Revolution is heading for collapse.”
When he Green Revolution was launched 40 years ago framers began to grow only high-yield crops instead of their traditional crops. The new crops required more water than the old crops so that farmers were required to create new wells. These new wells caused the ground water level to fall and the declining level caused the water to become more salty than before. These new wells required better and more expensive pumps, which led to indebtedness by the farmers.
This led to a problem similar to the problem we in the US have recently experienced, i.e. India’s Wall Street equivalent grew fat and happy and farmers accumulated debts that they could not pay. This created a financial “quicksand”.
The new crops demanded much more from the soil and the water wells pumped more salty water because of lowered ground water and the combination destroyed the soil.
During the good years the farmers increased their standard of living and built new homes for their families, thus adding more debt.
"It's like a disease that is catching on in the world," says Suba, "building a life that is like a house of cards."
"The state and farmers are now faced with a crisis…India's population is growing faster than any country on Earth, and domestic food production is vital.
But the commission's director, G.S. Kalkat, says Punjab's farmers are committing ecological and economic "suicide”… Kalkat says only one thing can save Punjab: India has to launch a brand new Green Revolution. But he says this one has to be sustainable.
The problem is, nobody has yet perfected a farming system that produces high yields, makes a good living for farm families, protects and enhances the environment — and still produces good, affordable food.”
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The answer is more sleep and more exercise.
I wrote a million things on getting a computer in the past 2 days. As per now, I plan to get a MacBook. I figured, using an extra folding table, I need to bring it in the restroom and wait awhile when it comes to busy forums. I bring it in the family area when I eat. Hopefully this laptop won't have a glitch. I'd already had a pillow for against the wall on my bed and use a lovesofa from the living room at my table. If that's not enough, I got a hi mini dining table.
The problem was I was expecting new things, when I could have gotten a real computer. Anyway, cleaning takes a long time. I've been blogging a lot on this every day. I had to get this table we'd been using for the microwave and didn't think to use the family loveseat.
... I am just upset it took that long and wasn't predictable when we first moved here January 2008.
Well I guess the reason it's a big deal is because before I didn't think to do it. I spent most of my time charting out my life, but I never figured it out.
humanity will always aim to do as little work as possible for the maximum reward. if we take a step back and look at the proverb 'walk before you run' we will learn not to rush things. we are trying to reach into space as a primordial planet with no real weapons or means of life support off earth for the human population, if we do reach something then we are ****ed for use of a better word. we are running too fast, we will soon meet a brick wall and we will come tumbling down.
In a "Is living in harmony with nature or technological world" sense of the question I think its depends on a personal opinion. A good mixture of the two would be the perfect solution maybe, living in harmony with nature but developing technology as well. Otherwise were going to be extinct eventually.
Were going to need technology to solve certain problems which also might make life as we know it extinct ie the sun going super nova, a massive comet smashes into the earth, horrible aliens wanting to farm us like cattle or even giant earthworm Nidhogg raising its ugly head.
No. The more advanced our Tech is the lazier humanity will become. Eventually it will all be done with a push of a button. Robots will fix the machines. Robots will fix the robots. And humans will be fat lazy blobs in hover chairs, sucking down liquid pizza from a cup.... Basically we will end up as Space humans from Wall-E.
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Aug 7th, 2009 12:14 PM
was I was expecting new things, when I could have gotten a real computer. Anyway, cleaning takes a long time. I've been blogging a lot on this every day. I had to get this table we'd been using for the microwave and didn't think to use the family loveseat.
