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While browsing through my father’s cabinet, I came across an old book—a Geographical Historical Dictionary from 1862. It described all the countries of the world and their histories, including every municipality in the Netherlands. Naturally, I looked up Maastricht, the city where I grew up. Among the information provided, I…
Land is our capital; through the sunlight that falls on it, it captures the necessary annual energy and mass of resources. But closely related to this is water, which is essential for that land-sun system to function and is the most important source for humans after air/oxygen. It should be…
We just fish the fish from the sea, without any consideration. The fish is not asked anything. And they are not paid for. We haven’t even sown those fish. So, at a fish stand, they are earning money with something they have taken from the sea for free, from a…
This summer I started decribing some bullshit Products, mainly on Linkedin.It was a great success, it got a lot of attention.The idea originated from readig the book Bullshit Jobs: I relised that whatever job, you can still but bullshit products…. Here is an update of those Bullshit products, previously describe…
a short addition to the previous article: Just this week during our annnex72 meeting we had a discussion on biogenic carbon. And the topic of ‘end of life calculating’ was at the table again. In relation to the carbon situation in 50 or 100 years or so. And its still…
The Species vs the Individual, in the Built Environment? The Corona lockdown and approach continues to surprise: both in what the government does and how people deal with it. What is particularly striking in this phase of Corona is the response and attitude to some problems with vaccines. There are…
I can’t resist putting some thoughts about ‘money’ on paper again. I am not an expert in this field, but is anybody really? Like many others, I follow the discussions about throwing money around during and after corona. And of course, the pressure to combine the billions of Euro’s now…
The article on the Graz declaration, made me think about the consequences, and I wrote a extension, which is added to the same page as annex. (scroll down) http://www.ronaldrovers.com/the-graz-declaration-a-amendment-proposal/
( a short version has been published on Linkedin) . Whats happening now, with the corona crises, shows how the world / human beings have become vulnerable to disruptions of “business as usual’ , or better: current ‘life as usual’ . Only think of global connections when suddenly all countries…
