Topic: Denial (101-200)

By Tim Morgan: In Pursuit of Safety (February 5, 2017)

It’s Time to Get Real: Trump’s a Symptom, Not the Problem (February 3, 2017)

By Tim Clarke: The Demise of the Global Oil Industry: Best Case 2022 (February 1, 2017)

By Louis Arnoux: Twilight of the Oil Age: Out of Gas by 2030 (January 13, 2017)

By Alex Smith: Radio Ecoshock interview with Ajit Varki (January 11, 2017)

You know you are in trouble when… (January 6, 2017)

Debt Up(date): This Will Not End Well (January 4, 2017)

By Jim Quinn: A Biased 2017 Forecast (December 31, 2016)

By Chris Martenson: As We Enter 2017, Keep the Big Picture in Mind (December 31, 2016)

Examples Being Set (December 30, 2016)

By Nick Breeze: On Climate Psychology (December 25, 2016)

Trump Climate Irony (December 23, 2016)

Solving Overshoot with More Overshoot (December 22, 2016)

An Election Worthy of Angst (December 19, 2016)

On Fake News (December 9, 2016)

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer: Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity (December 8, 2016)

BECCS = crazy denial (November 29, 2016)

On Religion and Denial (November 14, 2016)

Deniers vs. Non-Deniers (November 13, 2016)

Denial is Amazing! (June 25, 2016)

On the Wealth of Citizens: An EU Perspective (June 24, 2016)

Denial is Layered: What is Your Blind Spot? (June 21, 2016)

A Deadly Recipe: One Part Ignorance, One Part Denial (June 1, 2016)

By The New York Times: Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown (May 28, 2016)

By Eric Lindberg: 21 Stories of Transition and the Great Imagining: Why Transition Matters (May 6, 2016)

The UK: A State of unDenial? (May 3, 2016)

Interest(ing) Denial: 0% for 90 Months (April 30, 2016)

Ocean Acidification in My Front Yard (April 26, 2016)

WASF (April 24, 2016)

Denial of the Inconvenient Truth: Shrink the Economy or Die (April 24, 2016)

By James Hansen: I Don’t Think I’m an Alarmist (April 14, 2016)

By Erik Lindberg: Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question (April 9, 2016)

Overshoot Awareness: The Pros and Cons (April 5, 2016)

Denial and Depression: An Informal Survey and Analysis (April 4, 2016)

Mr. Robot: What Is It About Society That Disappoints You? (April 3, 2016)

By Gail Zawacki: Earth Embalmed (April 1, 2016)

book review: The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane (March 29, 2016)

By Gail Tverberg: Why We Have a Wage Inequality Problem (March 29, 2016)

By Paul Chefurka: No really, how sustainable are we? (March 29, 2016)

By Ray Grigg: The Evolution of Denial (March 26, 2016)

By Big Picture RT: Mass Extinction is Closer Than You Know (March 26, 2016)

Overpopulation Denial (March 25, 2016)

Denial is the Only Topic Less Popular than Overshoot (March 20, 2016)

By Mac10: The Idiocracy Doesn’t Believe In Reality (March 13, 2016)

By Survival Acres: Planetary Emergency (March 9, 2016)

Tim Garrett: On the Nature of Growth, and Our Special Place (February 23, 2016)

By Baba Brinkman: God of the Gaps (February 19, 2016)

By Richard Smith: Green Capitalism: The God That Failed (February 7, 2016)

By Mac10: Denialation: “This Is Not Already Happening To Me” (February 6, 2016)

By A Chemist in Langley: On the Empty Platitudes of the Anti-pipeline Advocates (February 5, 2016)

Why We Want Growth, Why We Can’t Have It, and What This Means (January 30, 2016)

COP21 Revisited (January 28, 2016)

One Less Blog to Follow (January 27, 2016)

By Ron Patterson: A Closer Look at OPEC (January 24, 2016)

On David Wasdell’s Apollo-Gaia Project: Denial to the Moon (January 14, 2016)

COP21 and Air Travel (January 3, 2016)

Coincidence or Expected? (December 20, 2015)

COP21: Doubling Down on Denial (December 13, 2015)

Canada Shocks COP21 with Big New Climate Goal: It’s All Bullshit (December 7, 2015)

James Hansen and Denial (December 6, 2015)

By Gail Zawacki: Extinction Goes Glam: Celebrities in Denial (December 5, 2015)

Alberta’s New Policies: False Optimism (November 29, 2015)

COP21: Agenda (November 29, 2015)

Voting for Justin Trudeau: What’s the Objective? (November 29, 2015)

By Mac10: Peter Pan Society (on denial) (November 25, 2015)

Debt and Denial: Mansions and Earthquakes (November 13, 2015)

un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial (November 12, 2015)

Green Denial: Burning Wood (October 29, 2015)

Good Guys in Denial: It’s Everywhere and Deep: On Kevin Anderson (October 25, 2015)

By Gail Zawacki: Fallen Leaves That Jewel the Ground (October 25, 2015)

Yuval Harari’s Sapiens (October 25, 2015)

A Summary of Our Predicament: Overshoot Is a Bitch (October 24, 2015)

Canadians Are In Denial (October 22, 2015)

Canadian Election Choices (October 11, 2015)

Climate Scientists Damage Their Own Credibility (September 26, 2015)

A Smile On My Death Bed (September 23, 2015)

Time to Question the Pie (September 17, 2015)

What did we learn from 2008? (September 17, 2015)

My Election Platform (August 11, 2015)

By Mac10: Locus of Denial: Why I Don’t Watch CNN (August 11, 2015)

The Green Party Should Change Its Name (June 25, 2015)

Denial Is An Amazing Thing (June 15, 2015)

By Euan Mearns: Global Energy Trends (June 13, 2015)

By George Mobus: The Hopeless State of Education (June 7, 2015)

By Suzanna Jones: Betraying the Environment (June 7, 2015)

By Chris Martenson: In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril (May 29, 2015)

By Dave Cohen: Adventures in Flatland (May 19, 2015)

By David Roberts: The Awful Truth About Climate Change No One Wants to Admit (May 16, 2015)

We Are the Champions! (April 11, 2015)

Are We Experiencing the Peak of What is Possible In the Universe? (March 25, 2015)

Our Place in the Universe (March 24, 2015)

By Nick Breeze: Survivable IPCC Projections Based on Science Fiction: Reality is Far Worse (February 24, 2015)

Does Intelligence Require Denial? (February 12, 2014)

Cognitive Dissonance Everywhere (February 11, 2014)

For explaining why humans are odd
To Varki and Brower we applaud
A great mystery they solved
With denial we evolved
And created the Higgs, overshoot, and God

Denial not only makes us believe in god, it is god, because denial created us, and denial may destroy us.

The human brain, the God it believes in, and the overshoot it enabled and denies, all resulted from the same improbable genetic adaptation that occurred about 100,000 years ago.

Denial is the reality that must be most aggressively denied to avoid collapsing the house of cards that keeps us functioning.

The most amazing thing about human overshoot is that we do not discuss it.

You know you are in trouble when reduced CO2 emissions from an economic collapse caused by low-cost oil depletion is not sufficient to prevent civilization collapse from climate change caused by previously emitted CO2.

Our only choices are do we want to fall from a higher elevation later, or climb down from a lower elevation sooner?

Things that can’t continue usually stop too late.

Truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry.

All 8 billion of us owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains; 6 billion of us also owe our existence to nitrogen fertilizer created from natural gas by Haber-Bosch factories.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Thermodynamics, expressed through genetics, creates beings incapable of not maximizing energy consumption.

Denial is evolution’s solution for permitting intelligence to coexist with our (Maximum Power Principle) subconscious decision makers.

While it digs its own grave, all the mind can do is entertain fantasies and create excuses.

When the only paying job in town is sawing off the branch which you are sitting on, you….saw away! You might refuse to saw and hang yourself from that branch, but the end is the same anyway, and that option is much less fun. (Cynic @Megacancer)

It is remarkable that a brain emerged from a cloud of hydrogen and figured out the laws of physics that governed, and possibly made inevitable, its own creation and destruction.

We have met the oblivious and they are us.

All 8 billion of us originated from one small tribe in Africa about 100,000 years ago that gave birth to a child with an improbable mutation for a more powerful brain that denied reality. The other tribes were soon toast and we took over the planet. We’re all close cousins. I love you all. Except the deniers.

Meaning comes from understanding why we can understand there is no meaning.

Way too many smart people with big reputations are wrong about everything that matters. Something’s gonna happen that gives them an excuse not to have to admit they were in denial.

One of the most, if not the most, precious and rare things in the universe is the human brain. We have a cosmic obligation to use it and to confirm it works.

Fire to cooking to intelligence to denial to god to plotting to capital punishment to self-domestication to Apollo 11 to 7 billion too many.

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