A Sudden Gust: How Big

There's Jevon's Paradox That The Better We Get At Efficiently Using Energy The More Energy We Use; So That And That Machine Technology Improvements Per Se Do Not Necessarily Reduce Our Impacts Because We Immediately Double Down On How Much We Use.

We Dream, We Wake On A Cold Hillside, We Pursue The Dream Again. In The Beginning Was The Dream, And The Work Of Disenchantment Never Ends.

Beauty Was The Promise Of Happiness, Not Happiness Itself; And The Anticipated World Was Often More Rich Than Anything Real.

The Minimum That Most Minimalists Want Leaves In Place Just The Institutions Who Protect Their Interests. That's Libertarians For You - Anarchists Who Want Police Protection From Their Slaves.

Economics Was Like Psychology, A Pseudoscience Trying To Hide That Fact With Intense Theoretical Hyperelaboration. And Gross Domestic Product Was One Of Those Unfortunate Measurement Concepts, Like Inches Or The British Thermal Unit, That Ought To Have Been Retired Long Before.