Re-thinking the blog

This post was originally conceived as an optimistic view of current developments, as opposed to the increasingly pessimistic view.

Well, that's just too good to be true.  So much for that.

Today I am re-reading Mining The Sky, which was an early inspiration for this blog.

Perhaps the re-thinking is going back for new inspiration.  Things are getting a bit run down here in terms of spirit and morale.

The Wikipedia entry on the book sums it up nicely

He argues that shortage of resources is "...an illusion born of ignorance."

We don't have a shortage of resources.  We don't have a shortage of technical skills.  At least not yet.  What we do have is a shortage of will to address the issues effectively.  It's not a technological nor even an economic problem, it is a human problem.

"We have met the enemy and they is us."