China Saved the World Economy (So Far) Direct link to original post:https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#china-saves-world-economy An incomplete summary of China Quietly Saved the World Last Month (also embedded below) by Max Fisher Months ago, the news and many other people were expecting a much more massive oil shock. Oil at $150-200 a barrel. Gas lines. No jet flights. An economic […]
Category: environment
Humans Will Never Live on Mars Permanently
The barriers to establishing a permanent presence on mars are many and appear insurmountable to anyone with a little bit of critical thinking and scientific knowledge. Among them are the radiation, lack of atmosphere, biological effects of low gravity, and toxic dirt. Elon Musk and others are selling a dangerous fantasy
Very Small Ocean Flyers
In 2025, Solar & Clean Power met all demand growth while fossil electricity stayed flat. Fossil exports in mid-2026 are paralyzed on 4 seas & in Russia, while China rolls out EVs (electric vehicles) & renewables at massive scales. Climate Victory is Possible. But Climate Change presents a less talked-about problem: the threat to Ocean Oxygen. Seawater only contains 6-10 mg/kg of molecular oxygen, O2, compared to 210,000 mg/kg in the air.
Measuring Climate Change Progress by Infrastructure Deployment Rather than Temperature
In a new video, Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now?, the Just Have a Think YouTube channel discusses a new paper about measuring climate change progress with clean energy targets, not temperature targets, “to avoid the insidious narrative of climate failure, which risks backlash and doomerism.” They go on: […]
Scattershot Prompted Poem
A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Latest iteration on my business card + Excerpted poem “We”
[…] Punch in, punch out; as the weary depart; you are alert on the headset; she is shifting packages among conveyors, up, down, across slides the latte. Clinkety clink go the coins and rustle of crumpled ones, out of pockets and into tip jars. Brake, stop, go, the drive thru, the sausage biscuits. The scrubs and IVs and X-Rays […]
Singular Fragments of Incarnation No. 2
Baristas set things in order / — clear surfaces / — clean windows / — near to closing time / — squeaky squeaky squeaky / — an item falls / — and Pink Pony Club / — — comes on the stereo / Singular Fragments of Incarnation / — sound of squirt bottle / — […]
Dreaming Plants
Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]
Reality Bubbles, Rootedness, Clouding of Consciousness – Postcard Poems
This island reality or that tunnel reality or that life experience bubble or another media panorama or social nexusAll the written word is by human hands Rootedness with your feet in the here & now & your head sensing both the near & present & the far horizons or might besWhether skyscraper, coal mine, or […]
Policy Ideas to Unite Our Communities
One of two main text/image blocks I’m currently printing & attaching to my postcards (although this one has no image, I had too much to say!). The stuff handwritten on the left edge and the ‘fortune cookie’ glyph sequence are unique to each card. The other one has the last paragraph from this text block […]
Lost in Mist 