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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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The Oil Drum | Peak Phosphorous
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Aug 17, 2007 8:17am
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Peak Phosphorous
 in The Oil Drum, a guest post by Patrick Duery and Bart Anderson. Patrick Duery is a physicist, energy, agriculture and environment analyst and consultant in Quebec, Canada. Bart Anderson is a former reporter, teacher and technical writer; he currently is co-editor of Energy Bulletin.
Peak oil has made us aware that many of the resources on which civilization depends are limited.
M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist for Shell Oil, found that oil production over time followed a curve that was roughly bell-shaped. He correctly predicted that oil production in the lower 48 states would peak in 1970. Other analysts following Hubbert's methods are predicting a peak in oil production early this century.
The depletion analysis pioneered by Hubbert can be applied to other non-renewable resources. Analysts have looked at peak production for resouces such as natural gas, coal and uranium.
In this paper, Patrick Duery applies Hubbert's methods to a very special non-renewable resource - phosphorus - a nutrient essential for agriculture.
 Peak Phosphorous
Wow!
There should be a fifth graph but nobody likes to draw it so observe the first 4 and imagine what's coming our way. It seems that what's coming is coming fast. So now what?
In my view the perception, of what is reality by the people who will be living some decades later, shall be altered drastically by necessity. In other words the worldview that is slowly emerging today in the heads of a tiny minority of people could well explode soon as evidence in the face of all:
- we are particles of something so huge that it is simply inaccessible to us. That something is the whole we are particles of...
- everything is connected in the whole and causality, which was like an infantile understanding of what's going on, is superseded by complexity. (Gene X is not the cause of illness X but well the interactions among genes and "garbage DNA" and ... )
- our survival lies in our re-connection to the whole. We have to abandon the infantile stories of our religions and re-connect with the body of knowledge left to us by animism.
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