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THE EFFICIENT REVOLUTION
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AN ENLIGHTENED RESPONSE TO TERROR
”Those who will make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”
Voltaire
During my studies I had the pleasure of working at the Crowne Plaza hotel in
Nottingham. Out of the dozens of people and nationalities working there, I
seemed to connect best with this guy Adhil, who was an Indian Muslim. At first I
was quite surprised that someone would actually pray five times a day. I didn’t
mind it of course. He didn’t mind me not praying at all.
Like many others, he was in the UK for a work placement and eventually returned
to Ahmadabad. I believe he married a woman he had met once before. He was also
curious about me living together with my girlfriend and not being married. I
told him about a saying we have in Finland – ”Never buy a pig in a bag.” He
considered the approach pragmatic. (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2015 by Lauri Muranen. Leave a comment
SHOULD WE ADOPT GMOS?
Before I dive into my latest entry, I would like to use this chance to thank the
British taxpayer for subsidizing the education of millions of people around the
world via their greatest export product – the British Broadcasting Corporation.
In fact, it was the BBC that inspired me to write this particular piece.
Some time ago I was listening to a BBC-podcast called ’the world history in 100
objects’. The episode centered around the significance of corn for the Central
American culture. Apparently, before certain genetic mutations took place, corn
was quite inedible for humans. It took countless further mutations (both random
and deliberate) from countless of generations of Central American farmers to
develop the plant into its current variety. However, when the
journalist/narrator asks a Mexican restaurant owner what he considers the
biggest threat to his native culinary culture he mentions genetically modified
organisms or GMOs. “It is not our place to play god”.
(more…)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2015 by Lauri Muranen. 8 Comments
THE WORLD OVERSHOOT DAY – ARE WE CONSUMING 1,5 PLANETS A YEAR?
I suppose it is common knowledge these days to remind ourselves that today is
the day when “humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year.” In other
words humanity spends earth’s annual biocapacity’s worth of resources in only a
bit over eight months. Moreover, the time required to reach this point takes
less and less time each year.
(more…)
Posted in Efficiency, Environment, Sustainability and tagged biocapacity,
Efficient revolution, Offshootday on August 19, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. 1 Comment
AGRICULTURE – A WAY TO FIGHT OFF MOTHER NATURE’S MURDER ATTEMPTS
If Mother Nature was an actual mother she wouldn’t be a very good one. She would
probably be one of those manic depressive alcoholics whose benevolence it would
be impossible to count on – she could come home either with a brand new bike or
an eviction notice.
There is actually a point to this rant as this entry (and the following two)
will focus on the issue of food production. I will be looking at how the
efficient revolution has taken place in food production and how I believe it
could ensue in the future in both farming as well as meat production.
In a way the history of human subsistence can be seen as a continuous struggle
to stave off the innate efforts of our environment(s) to destroy us. Some might
consider this a modernist view but I want to emphasise that I do not see it that
way. It is only from the relative safety of the modern society that we can
afford to consider nature somehow a benign being. And predictable food
production is naturally one of the most important prerequisites for societies to
avoid an early grave. (more…)
Posted in Environment, Food, Health, Population and tagged efficiency, energy,
Environment, food, GM, organic on May 14, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. 5 Comments
HUMANITY HAS BEEN MAKING LOVE, NOT WAR, FOR SOME TIME NOW
The following sentence might send the parts of your brain that hold the rein on
your cognitive dissonance on a flurry but I will say it in any case. Humanity is
living its most peaceful time. Ever. The chances that you will be a victim of a
violent crime or casualty of a conflict are lower than ever.
It is true that humans have got better and more efficient at killing each other
over the history but it is also true that we have come better at restraining
ourselves from committing our aggressive impulses.
In this post I will examine the reasons for such developments.
The main content for this entry comes from a book that I have been reading on
and off for a year and finally finished last week – Steven Pinker’s Better
Angels of our Nature. He argues the world has never experienced as peaceful
times as these (relatively speaking). According to Pinker, there are several
factors behind this wildly positive development but I will focus on three
themes. But let us start with the numbers first. (more…)
Posted in Efficiency, Population, Sustainability and tagged Development,
Violence, War on April 14, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. Leave a comment
IS POPULATION GROWTH A PROBLEM?
There’s a good chance that if you’ve heard of Hans Rosling‘s name you are not as
worried over population growth as the average person. If you haven’t, you are
likely to think that the earth is being swarmed by people. The typical conundrum
goes along the lines that we are overcrowding the planet with an ever increasing
speed as if there was no tomorrow. Moreover, you probably believe that in order
to prevent a global population bomb from exploding it is necessary to implement
strict measures, such as the Chinese one child policy. When you look at the
below graph it is difficult to disagree with such musings. (more…)
Posted in Health, Population, Sustainability and tagged Education, Efficient
revolution, health, Population growth on March 31, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. 2
Comments
IN PRAISE OF FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS
I have come to appreciate first world problems. I know, they are banal and
pointless yet in some rare cases, when the victim doesn’t appreciate the irony
and is genuinely sorry for him/herself, the comedy can be priceless.
(more…)
Posted in General, Health, Population and tagged First world problems, health,
population on March 21, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. 2 Comments
WHY ECONOMIC GROWTH IS IMPORTANT FOR SUSTAINABILITY?
My brother visited South Korea some years ago. He brought me a plastic toy diver
(below) that worked with a pair of AA-batteries. The toy made some awkward
jerking kicking motions I assume had something to do with underwater propulsion.
I thought human dignity had reached rock bottom. We seriously couldn’t come up
with anything better to do than build diving action figures? I admit though,
that it was funny to imagine (in a self-loathing way) what the people working in
the toy-diver-factory thought of the world around them and about the people
buying the pointless things in the first place.
(more…)
Posted in Efficiency, Sustainability and tagged degrowth, Efficient revolution,
growth, sustainability on March 9, 2014 by Lauri Muranen. 8 Comments
THE EFFICIENT REVOLUTION
The efficient revolution is my attempt to write a ‘crowd sourced’ book about the
story how humanity has been able to cut its chains of virtual slavery to the
finite boundaries of earth. The success has been achieved via circumventing
those boundaries with efficiency – by getting more out from less. Moreover there
is plenty of evidence suggesting that this will be the way we can escape our
current predicament. (more…)
Posted in Efficiency, Sustainability and tagged efficiency, energy, Environment,
Malthus, population, Strawman, sustainability on February 26, 2014 by Lauri
Muranen. 12 Comments
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