January 2013 breaks Australian record for hottest average temperatures

[simmo]

Does it make it right though.

simmo

[simmo]

Does anyone else remember the poster of the indian with the caption below that finished with when the last fish has been caught and the last tree has been cut when the last river runs dry then we'll understand that we cannot eat money?

I think the Nepalese have a good idea and base there progress not on financial terms but the happiness of there society. Yeah maybe we're happier with our gizmos for the short term but at what cost to long term happiness?

Simmo

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Originally Posted by simmo

Does it make it right though.

simmo

Not necessarily, but they are going to get it somewhere-they do not have an alternative at the moment. Australia needs the income, we don't have much else!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Originally Posted by simmo

Does anyone else remember the poster of the indian with the caption below that finished with when the last fish has been caught and the last tree has been cut when the last river runs dry then we'll understand that we cannot eat money?

I think the Nepalese have a good idea and base there progress not on financial terms but the happiness of there society. Yeah maybe we're happier with our gizmos for the short term but at what cost to long term happiness?

Simmo

The poster you refer to simply illustrates the effect of over-population, even though it has a financial reference. Its a pity India doesn't introduce a one child policy like China.
And as for the Nepalese, they have always lived this way. Try giving them all the gizmos for a while and then try taking them away again and see what reaction you would get! To put it in a nutshell, we can't go backwards.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Yesterday I went to the farewell for the lab manager in Chemistry who is retiring. The Head of Chemistry is an atmospheric chemist and he started by stating that John (the retiree) started work in 326. Cries of 'AD or BC'. No, 326ppm of CO2 in the atm. That was 1968. He is retiring at 396ppm CO2.

Makes ya think.

[simmo]

That's right Larry, we can't go back, but we can change the future for the better. It will just need some courage and determination to do what's right. I won't be a hypocrite as it needs to be me too.

Simmo

[TrevorW]

Funny I often feel that we lack something in the modern society, as a race I believe we shine when confronted by adversity and are out our best when we work together to acheive something fundamental.

A lot of people seem to have lost the knack of enjoying life the beauty of it's diversity we've become to complacent in our own little worlds surrounded by endless gadgets oblivious to what is going on around us.

The world is being stripped to provide wealth to a minority while half the worlds population starves, wealth that they will never live to enjoy.

Something needs to happen to wake up and get us of that merry go round before the world no longer can support it's present population.

I think firstly we need to slow are breeding and needless consumerism.