It is early on this day, the 5th. Later Sarah will be in town and we will have dinner (at Lil Shu) before my chorus concert of: Considering Matthew Shepard ... at Mondavi. Big deal the concert!
Note: Yesterday was a good day and hanging w/Ellen was nice.
In other news/stuff -- My sister my sister.... I wonder. Did not hear anything yesterday. Plans to see her have changed.... shortened and put off a few days - as she requested from her hospital bed where they are clearing a blockage to get her better.
In my garden -- irrigation is better in back. Probably good in front -- I need to set. Hummingbird feeders are attracking hummingbirds! And barbecue grill is working easily. A lot of THANKS to Nate.
I need to get back into practicing piano and carry on with the writings (stories and two-ways of thinking essays). AND TRAVEL -- where to ???? A road trip is high in my thoughts -- up to Oregon (Shakespear) and Washington (Olympic National Park) OR - to various state parks since the nationals may be understaffed and closed??!!!
And - workout and/or a walk today? Breakfast ( a sandwich with a walk?)? A second cup of coffee? AND - today's weigh-in was good....maybe next week I can get into the 60's!!!!!
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Today I have already begun writing something for tomorrow... mostly about Israel and antisemitsm ...HOWEVER - a headline inside the NYTimes today noted that Vietnam was ending ITS one-child policy so as to increase its population which is in decline. I WONDER WHY... Where is the alternatives to bring down the number of people on this planet who are consuming limited resources.... !!!!
In my opinion there will be a limit to the population the planet w/science can support for lives that have a reasonable quality. Yes - Quality of Life issue! In my opinion when that limit is truly reached there will be a catastrophic response such as war, famine, pandemic, etc.. The alternative is to find some way to PEACEFULLY bring the population down. And why can't we?
We can't, I think, because we have systems in place that depend on increasing populations of young people to support older people. Social Security is an/the example. The Social Security system made sense when it was inaugerated as it came into being suddenly and getting work going for lots of people during the depression and having their work go directly into supporting their elders then and later it would support them made a lot of sense ... But the anaugeral reasons and the pressures of longer life spans and less youthful fertility is cause for looking at the issues of taking care of all people's basic needs in a new and different way that is sustainable and planet/climate friendly.
If there were fewer people consuming fewer resources I can only imagine that would be good. Forests might renew themselves. Agricultural fields might renew themsevles. Fewer animals would need feed and stuff. Energy use would be lowered and polution from power plants reduced. Less fresh water needed ... AND IN GENERAL we could fix our various infrastructures. As for the production of durable goods we might turn more of that work over to machines and the general balance between what is produced and consumed could be balanced. With appropriate balance the massive amount of wealth of entrepreneurs would drop since supply and demand would better match and prices could be more reasonable. THE point - why more population to make more... let automation help out. THEN - leasure time becomes available .. and that is a problem since being productive has more meaning than being at leasure and conuming.
SO - the path to lowering population includes making leasure time productive and having production more done by machines run by a smaller workforce. REAL PROBLEM QUESTIONS!!!
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