Monthly Archives: March 2019

Seeking an ecologically defensible calculation of net loss/gain of biodiversity: A critique

This paper does what it says it will, ie describe an ecocentric (or perhaps better, an ecosystem) offsetting scheme. However it does not and cannot answer the real criticisms applicable to such schemes. In effect it is just an interesting … Continue reading

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A SHORT NOTE ON INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION IN RETIREMENT

A good week this week. I am feeling really fit after completing a 20 mile run in 4 hours on Friday and winning 8 out of 9 games in today’s inter-town table tennis competition. I have also had lots to … Continue reading

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THOUGHTS ON A WORLD WITHOUT MONEY, INEQUALITY AND GLOBALIZATION

I seem to have got involved in some discussions on Facebook this week that I think are worth recording on this blog. I have not printed the threads which were mostly quite long. What follows is my contribution to those … Continue reading

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SOME THOUGHTS ON READING NATURE BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A short but powerful prose that sets out Emerson’s philosophy and the centrality of nature thereto. It is not an easy read, at first it felt like a wall of words, but eventually these began to make shapes I could … Continue reading

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