Author Archives: Emil Möller
Native perspectives 7
Some suggestions regarding tackling common institutional barriers in a transition towards a sustainable energy regime. And thus boost resilience
| 1. | allow people to hop on a bike and interact with people in other regions. This can be accomplished by finding ways to support people with aspirations in this directions. An example is paying them for writing post cards to people you think would appreciate receiving such mail. In this case my friends in their turn support a school in Nepal. To me a recumbent are the preferred way of traveling, due to an inclination towards laziness. |
Native perspectives 6
Confrontations between good and bad are of all ages. Hero’s need them. Although since post modernism this is a matter of perspective, to me some images are hard to look away from.
To me quite a number look like pieces of a jig saw puzzle. A 4D one. I like to assume that a larger picture regarding pressing current issues could be of interest. We all have pictures like this, ranging from implicit to explicit. Sharing them could help us survive.
The following pieces offered could be of interest in deblurring our minds intellectually and otherwise. An invitation into meaning, if you like.
| 1. | The picture, or perhaps more aptly: icon, of Frankenstein shows an important ingredient in our current iteration of lessons to be learned. It shows the mixed blessing of technology: a significant increase in standard of living for many, which has become an unguided missile, threatening all. At the same time it offers tremendous opportunities, when used properly. |
| 2. | Part of this unguidedness are our attempts to address our sense of lack. The more fruits of technology we can afford and –ever briefly- enjoy, the more we are confronted with the inadequacy of what we have achieved vis a vis what we set out for: the Good life. This results in boredom, killing time, seeking new thrills. |
| 3. | To round up for now: waking up to what we deep down know to be true would drive us mad. For with this knowledge of non duality, we would still have to live in this world. And be considered mad. Therefor we repress this knowledge, as we have learned from when we were very young and we didn’t want to stand alone. |
Good night and good luck.
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Native Perspectives 5
“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” [Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes]
In an effort of adding something worth while to any discourse, I experience myself as being saturated in perspectives.
With anything I read, think, write there are always endless perspectives present. I can bring them to the fore of my consciousness, or leave them. Interweave them with perspectives of others or with perspectives I used to have, could have, should have, or should not have. My choice. Or is it?
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Native Perspectives 4
Under the adagium ‘less is more’, the following is an attempt to tempt the reader
‘One EV at a time’ gets us started:
| - | in the US | (here) |
| - | in Israel | (here) |
| - | in Denmark | (here) |
| - | anywhere | (here) |
With the next station becoming self evident:
| - | CCS being more expensive | (here) |
| - | nuclear taking too long | (here) |
| - | the sun delivering always | (here) |
Delivering abundant fresh water for all:
| - | aqua csp | (here) |
There’s beauty in simplicity
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Native Perspectives 2
After demands for a more accessible style, this:
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- the ones that make decisions re sustainability are not fit for the job. To be more precise: lack adequate consciousness (time 27.00) / systemic awareness & clout
- example1: the Dutch gov’t's policy re sustainability in a recent peer review is labeled ‘not a sustainable policy’ and in a recent PhD-research: ‘whimsical and risk avoiding’
- example2: John Hofmeister (US colleague of mr van der Veer), ms’s van der Hoeven and Cramer on Carbon Capture and sequestration or bio fuels. Too little, too late (bio fuels: time 13.00). This is about addiction (time 15.12) and reshuffling the deck chairs of the Titanic
- example3: commercial organizations have a single bottom line, no matter what is communicated
- example4: NGO’s have clear and expedient criticism, but lack perspective how to proceed
- example5: burghers are not aware (time 0.28, time 9.50), kept that way more or less happily and the new boys have other agenda’s like this
Native Perspectives 1
Spreadsheet style thinking adds comfort. Silly, but still.
Ones tribe (family, neighborhood, organization, faculty, hobby or life style club) reconfirms ones functional fit and that plasters over most inconveniences.
Unfortunately, society on any level is chaotic. For any phenomenon there, including sustainability and resilience, only an aqal approach makes it fruitfully addressable. Anything less results in dead ends. Also in the Netherlands.
And since, for example, Sachs doesn’t seem take into current power arrangements, his approach will run aground on bau.
As the man from Boulder would have it, all this is ‘true, but partial’.
That’s why it would be appropriate to aqally use the best tools we have For example: grab a chair and 1,5 hours and open your mind, heart, will (meer…)
Native Perspectives (Aankondiging)
Emil Möller is promovendus op de Universiteit van Maastricht en hij zet zich zich in voor de transitie naar een duurzame samenleving. Vanaf volgende week zal hij het “Duurzaamheids / Innovatie Journaal: Native Perspectives” op Sargasso publiceren.
Het Native Perspectives Journaal houdt u op de hoogte van de ontwikkellingen en achtergronden op het gebied van duurzame energie en innovatie. Waarom verloopt verduurzaming zoveel trager dan wenselijk en mogelijk? En wat kan er in concreto aan gedaan worden in het kader van systeemverandering? Hieronder publiceren wij een tekst van Emil waarin hij het idee achter Native Perspectives uitlegt. De Sargasso redactie vond het een pittige tekst maar wij zouden u de lezer te kort doen als wij voor u zouden gaan bepalen dat het te ingewikkeld is. Volgende week start linkdump journaal Native Perspectives in haar eigenlijke vorm (iedere dinsdag om 13.00).
All the world’s a stage and we all play our roles [i]
break through and add a dimension to your life [iii], or a break down and become a mess of sorts [iv].
This iteration not local, but global. Inviting the privileged (us) into meaning: who are we and what is our work? [v] For intellectuals, see for example Gouldner [vi], George [vii] and Chomsky [viii]
Organizations, including corporations and societies, generate qualities for enhanced break troughs as well as break downs.
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the movie [xi] |
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collapse [xv] |
Our sense of lack [xvi] is what fuels our ignorance [xvii]. Which constitutes the stage and our roles.
We always already were one [xviii] and can get ourselves out of our messy stage easily [xix], [xx], [xxi]
Good night and good luck [xxii]
