Compression refers to: Population growth packing us ever tighter on a finite planet Squeezed resources; they're not unlimited. Compress waste out of all work processes, eliminating everything unnecessary for the purpose. Compress resource footprints for all human...
Objectives Statement: By 2040 globally improve quality of life to an industrial society equivalent using no more than half the energy and half the virgin raw materials as in the year 2000, while reducing known toxic releases to zero. Please reflect carefully on this...
The case for Compression does not rest on the slow increase in global temperature. It is a multiple-challenge manifesto. Many dangers cannot be anticipated in detail with great certainty, but imprecision is no reason for complacency. Too many distant alarm bells keep...
Expansion is a bonanza mentality; trying to gain a big payback from minimum work or investment. Seldom works out for most of us, but we "go for the gold;" think of consequences later. Compression is a conservationist, total-system, high-performance mentality; no such...
About 500 years of global physical expansion has affected everyone on earth. It is still picking up speed, driven by global financial and marketing systems. These descended from early business systems devised to motivate colonial expansion, followed by industrial...
Climate change critics seize on uncertainty of global temperature warming to insist that nothing is really changing. But temperature is only one indicator of the effects of industrial society expansion. Industrial societies became resource-intensive consumption...
A few substances may actually be near a limit. An example is rare earths important for electronic gear, like terbium and dysprosium, mined only in China so prices have sharply increased since 2007. In this case, conventional market signals prompt seeking other sources...
Most industrial society denizens would like the benefits of cheap energy without any of its downsides. For example,uranium mining and processing has strong opposition almost anywhere it is proposed. For a rundown on this explore: www.wise-uranium.org/ Nuclear fusion...