No ‘sustainability” yet, probably never.

Each year on Earth more timber is cut, more coal, oil, and gas is mined, and more land is cleared.

Trends for humans using all these resources is up, not down.

A forensic analysis of data for the last three centuries is in the book, More, more, more by Jean Baptiste Fressoz published in 2025.

“We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held belief in transition and sustainability is completely untrue, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues.

More and More and More forces readers to confront hard truths, including how “transition” was originally promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a way to put off any meaningful change. It offers a clear-eyed understanding of the modern world in all its voracious reality and shines a hard light on the true nature of the enormous challenges eight billion of us face, as we stand at the precipice of planetary crisis”

Over the last few months I’ve read and re-read this book, some of the sources, and some commentaries.

Up and down Inside myself I go. “Why do I bother?” “Will I stop caring?” “I can’t talk about this with my kids, I guess”.

***• Penny The Bitch - waiting for ‘waste’ food***

Perhaps fortunately my chook loudly complains about food at dawn, Penny The Bitch. Her complaints get me out of bed to shut up her loud complaints, even though there’s plenty of grain in her feeder. She wants treats. Or a social life, some entertainment. Who knows what’s in a chook’s mind.

***• At least, unlike eggs from supermarkets, there isn’t 60 litres of water embodied in her eggs - my waste food works for “less, less, less”***

And then, chook quietened, I get on with things, the day with and before me . . . more, more, more.

Michael