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Gentle Decline 2/23: Expectations & Excessions
In which I set out what I think is going to happen over the next few decades in terms of the Gentle Decline.
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Gentle Decline 2/21: Blackouts & Blundering
How to handle Winter Blackouts and maybe some long-term energy issues.
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Gentle Decline 2/29: Crisis & Calm
We didn't start the fire, or more accurately we as a species are in complete denial about who started it, and also whether anything can be done about…
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Gentle Decline 2/30: Feedback & Fears
Talking about broad approaches to climate change; can we really depend on governments to take care of us, or do we have to defy them to make things…
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Gentle Decline 2/15: Strife & Supplies
Wheat present, wheat future, and little enough of wheat past. How the Russian invasion of Ukraine is affecting and will affect global food supplies.
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Gentle Decline 2/31: Floods and Further
Looking at Ireland's rainfall, and what can be done to mitigate the effects of flooding.
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Gentle Decline 2/32: Correspondence & Confidence
An assortment of writing, answers, and opinions, not even all by me.
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Gentle Decline 2/27: Checklists & Cans
Hello. This issue covers my own current situation as regards climate change preparation, with the idea in mind of developing some sort of checklist…
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Gentle Decline 2/25: Tabs & Thanks
In which there is a variety of stuff, suitable to the early part of the year, and in which tabs are closed.
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Gentle Decline 2/22: Answers & Alienation
Hello. This issue is something of a grab-bag of bits and pieces; some answers to questions, rejoinders to remarks, and a bit of cut-and-pasted stuff…
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Gentle Decline 2/17: Actions & Activity
In which the what-can-I-do-now question is addressed, even though nobody actually asked it. And there's some grim regard for knowledge work.
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Moving Out
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