#obsoleteness

After the second post on obsolescence the only reader of my posts, @jedau,  proposed to name it: Thoughts on Obsolescence. I didn't use the title then, but decided to create a wrap up of the first

Image from Pixabay Some time ago it was simple. We reside on Earth, the Earth revolves around her axis and around the Sun, which also revolves around his axis, the Solar system resides in the Milky Way.

Photo from Pixabay Is the Earth, our home with all the nature, all of a sudden obsolete? Sounds insane. What’s wrong with the natural Earth as we know anyway, except human abuse of her? We get information

The photo is taken on the same spot in a building facing due North-South. There are lots of videos that show a messed up magnetic field of the Earth, like it’s not stable anymore. Every living being needs

Since when did humans come upon the idea that the bodies that our spirit and the spirits of our fellow creatures inhabit are imperfect? Sure the physical bodies are not immortal, but can you imagine the

Using weapons solely for catching a prey to feed oneself is most probably gone into obsolescence for quite some part of the world even though it would be better to stay this way. But no, humans like

Ever since money was invented it remained as the common denominator of economy, where purchasing-producing-selling is what encompasses our lives. We are born into it and don't know any other ways. It is

How fast will our professions go obsolete and disappear into oblivion, only to be later found in stories, fairy tales, and legends, or maybe some history books? Some fifty years ago there was a profession

When was the last time since we looked at food as something precious that sustains our life and the Earth as a life giver; plants and animals as those who are living beings on their own, owning us nothing.

There was a time when human products were ecological and sustainable, or at least much more natural before the invention of plastic. Ropes and nets were out of hemp, pots and kitchenware were out of clay,

We all need clothes, definitely so. But there was a time when textiles weren't such a quickly throw away product. They were durable and usually they were redesigned, if possible, for someone else or some

How did it come to the point that humankind builds ever bigger and higher houses? Spends more and more material for them and after no one wants to maintain those buildings any more they get dilapidated

From our childhood on we have been imbued with messages, from those who loved us and raised us, from our formal teachers, and from the media. The fairy tales, stories, songs cartoons, children movies telling

In this throw away civilization we create and live in, trashing everything is the most extensive and intensive human endeavor there is. We produce tons of waste. In the beginning of the production cycle

Just how long will it take for the objects on the photo to become fully obsolete?  In EU the purchase of electric cars increased by 49%, still total sales are accounting for 1.1% of all new cars sold