Good on you Sonia
So many people don’t practice what they preach I know you are concerned and bet you do what you personally can. When you look at the traffic flows around most cities and ask if we could not have electric cars all cry that they need the power, range is hardly a problem for most city drivers, where do they need this power I ask when you are lucky to get the thing up to 60 klms/hour before you come to a stop for another wait. It amuses me seeing the v8s with one person at the wheel, the many 4wds that never never will see the conditions they were built for ..the owners mistakenly believing they will be safer in a big vehicle in a smash. Look at your Land Rovers plenty of windows to let twisted metal intrude in an accident.
There is a list of real things that can be done I saw on another site (Tirock posted it) a list made by a Canadian Journalist which suggests many ways to minimize the problem just by less gluttony.. and when you think about it gluttony is the key to the problem. Have you worked out how much carbon is released in a season of formula one racing..let alone the many many classes in car racing today..and whets the point of it? Men trying to show they are better than another at a mindless game..They would not have it but car racing is the same as sitting at a computer playing space invaders. Repetition makes you better we know that so why bother. Consider the tyres that are consumed in car racing in one event.and the cost of energy to produce same..yet when one mentions solar panels you get this..what about energy cost to produce them..nuclear is more efficient. We are being snowed, and fortunately everyone I am talking to are saying the same thing... someone is selling something otherwise why is there so much "news" about it. Even a kid the other day pointed out.."but the Great Barrier Reef has been thru this sort of thing how will getting that horrible nuclear power save it when it has saved itself many times over when it was hot in the past" ..and that’s a kid who you would think did not understand but he did not buy the snow job.
The nuclear power people by using this to sell power stations is as I said causing people to take their eye off the real problem.. much much more needs to be done to prepare for a world that will be hotter.. Your PM in an effort to grab headlines came out recently with a call for more paper work to manage things but really what a poor lead he gives to seriously address the problems.
If you consider the movement of millions of people relocating to new areas one would think matters of infra structure would be high on the agenda
.. no that is seen as a military problem.. that does not add up to me. People that will lose their homes are to be treated unkindly it seems by a "stay where you are and die approach". It upsets me greatly that vested interests are putting the human race in harms way simply to gather even more wealth to enjoy even a higher level of gluttony. What can we do to bring them to heel. We need to talk about it to every friend we have and point out how they are being conned into thinking stupid measures will solve the problem. What I find very comforting is the way the propaganda is being seen for what it is and yet most people are concerned with the un necessary pollution
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Keep up the good work, keep informed, don’t buy crap and tell your friends.
Alex