This seems to be the majority, nearly universal, opinion of the denizens of SomerSoft.
So what are We, as a group, doing about it? TC posted an alarming link here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10446700
I copped a lot of flack because I am sceptical of Al Gore's, and the ICCC's "science" but I never said "all is well". It does not matter that I see different problems. It only matters that those I, and you see have the same root cause: We have, overgrown our planet! like weeds or lemmings.
Here comes the blow torch to the belly: Acey started the Climate Change - your views? thread in Feb '04 but have any of us actually made lifestyle changes since or are we doing the usual human thing and expecting someone else to do it for us? Has anyone decided not to take a jet flight they could afford and wanted to do but vetoed it as anti-survival? There are a million other such questions, but you know what I mean.
Having asked the question I must give an answer. I have done nothing.
But I abhor tokenism and Australia's great contribution by banning filament globes is the tiniest token I am aware of. Flying into the city of your choice, what percentage of the lights you see would come from filament lamps? Three fifths of five eights of bugger all!
The reason I won't accept tokenism is that it (sort of) justifies waste of resources, just as long as you recycle, turn off the tap while brushing, etc which salves our conscience and allows us to buy and use millions of airconditioners. Breaking News: It doesn't work that way.
So what are you, individually, doing to save the planet? Trading your V6 on a Prius doesn't count because the Prius consumes more energy to make than your Falcodore will waste during it's useful life. Ticking the square that allows your electricity provider to charge like a mad bull will merely waste some money in a wind farm with unproven Energy Input/Energy Output (EIEO). You don't think they make them from old jam tins do you?
It also seems most who believe Al Gore are also anti nuclear. Do some serious reading and then justify this anomaly. Nuclear power generation is a mature technology and apart from some crazy Ruskies has a near perfect safety record. Should you accept their experience (damn Russians) as part of the global record for the technology, you must also accept China's abysmal safety record in coal mines as part of the global record for that industry. The only possible conclusion would be that mining and burning conventional energy kills more per year than atomic energy has done in half a century. And forget the Greens, the difficulties involved in waste disposal are all political.
I make no apology for rolling this hand grenade down the aisle. If you have not already changed your life for a simpler one you have no right to criticise Yanks in their Hummers. If you think you only need to act when the majority have shown you how, come join me at The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. Apologies to Douglas Adams.
So what are We, as a group, doing about it? TC posted an alarming link here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10446700
I copped a lot of flack because I am sceptical of Al Gore's, and the ICCC's "science" but I never said "all is well". It does not matter that I see different problems. It only matters that those I, and you see have the same root cause: We have, overgrown our planet! like weeds or lemmings.
Here comes the blow torch to the belly: Acey started the Climate Change - your views? thread in Feb '04 but have any of us actually made lifestyle changes since or are we doing the usual human thing and expecting someone else to do it for us? Has anyone decided not to take a jet flight they could afford and wanted to do but vetoed it as anti-survival? There are a million other such questions, but you know what I mean.
Having asked the question I must give an answer. I have done nothing.
But I abhor tokenism and Australia's great contribution by banning filament globes is the tiniest token I am aware of. Flying into the city of your choice, what percentage of the lights you see would come from filament lamps? Three fifths of five eights of bugger all!The reason I won't accept tokenism is that it (sort of) justifies waste of resources, just as long as you recycle, turn off the tap while brushing, etc which salves our conscience and allows us to buy and use millions of airconditioners. Breaking News: It doesn't work that way.
So what are you, individually, doing to save the planet? Trading your V6 on a Prius doesn't count because the Prius consumes more energy to make than your Falcodore will waste during it's useful life. Ticking the square that allows your electricity provider to charge like a mad bull will merely waste some money in a wind farm with unproven Energy Input/Energy Output (EIEO). You don't think they make them from old jam tins do you?
It also seems most who believe Al Gore are also anti nuclear. Do some serious reading and then justify this anomaly. Nuclear power generation is a mature technology and apart from some crazy Ruskies has a near perfect safety record. Should you accept their experience (damn Russians) as part of the global record for the technology, you must also accept China's abysmal safety record in coal mines as part of the global record for that industry. The only possible conclusion would be that mining and burning conventional energy kills more per year than atomic energy has done in half a century. And forget the Greens, the difficulties involved in waste disposal are all political.
I make no apology for rolling this hand grenade down the aisle. If you have not already changed your life for a simpler one you have no right to criticise Yanks in their Hummers. If you think you only need to act when the majority have shown you how, come join me at The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe. Apologies to Douglas Adams.
