OMG scary thought #2
January 15th 2008 22:55
I must escape the green debate before I am labelled a skeptic of any sort. I'm not in case anyone has already reached that junction and needs guidance, I am a realist and a logical one at that, yes the worst kind, but its a bit late to request spots instead of the stripes.
In reading about TV energy consumption(See : Plasma-Greenhouse-Effect ) I saw a startling fact, we in Australia (and we aren't that odd that the figure is likely to be similar in the western world) have an average of 2.4 cars per household. I will leave it to another post to discuss the benefits of this figure being greater than the average number of kids, in terms of the greenhouse soap I am not sure which would be better - do kids or cars issue more polution over their life span and are which are fully biodegradable.
Now it may be a new thing or I may only just be noticing it for the first time, but my mind seems to have become a singles bar; lots of single ideas hanging around waiting for a matching partner to do wickedly delicious things with. This latest one instantly found a match with the recent news from India that a new small car will finially make it to market. Its not a new concept, many people in the past have identified the opportunity that a really cheap car with the ability to go on roads and goat tracks might offer. However this one is due to be released on a grand scale by a huge manufacturer.
Brilliant, wonderful news every Indian family, then every chinese family, then every arabic family and finally (not strictly in any order inparticular ) every african family can trade in their donkey for their 2.4 cars and we can all be on the same page. Now the whole family can have the freedom to move to the next village and beyond whenever they choose, they can learn to appreciate the difficulties in life that we have all grown so used to, traffic lights, road rage and exhaust fumes..... arrrrrggggghhhhh
The greenhouse crocodile comes back and bites me, grabs my legs and in a death role slowly slips under the surface to drown me. I feel the weight of the rock as it is put on my body wedging me under, whilst my body starts to decompose.
If cars are one of the top three emmiters of greenhouse gases, (simple numbers does it not inefficency) then what the hell is going to happen when the 2/3rds of the world that don't have them now get them ? Isn't this going to be a bit more of an issue than baning plastic bags, changing light bulbs and even stopping whaling ?
Just don't ask them if they would like a plasma Tv with the car !
The realist in me tells me the solution is not possible by simply changing the behavioural hbits of the western world, sure we should all become aware and more responsible but lets not kid ourselves that this will solve the problem or even slow it down. The world has to develop, the poorer countries can not be held back from getting the simple benefits the western world already have like hospitals, schools and access to modern transport.
If the world is in trouble now, it is doomed when this happens !
The problem will be solved by huge corporations that invest in a technology or science that will reverse the effects we are creating. Simplistic as it may seem and I am not even saying it is possible, but a satelite in orbit in the ozone layer could be converting the harmful stuff into good stuff whilst its telling us our GPS co-ordinates ? Instead of spending billions on traveling to Mars (for what purpose if the world is about to self destruct I might add), couldn't we just resolve this issue first, or perhaps we already have a solution in the wings and no-one wants to play their hand to early.
Just a note after reading this one might also think i am a pessimist, not true I am very much the optimist, I have no doubt the world will find the solution, it will be remarkable and we will collectively pat the genius of the human race on the back for it. We will of course then pay for it through some wild and fancy new corporate scheme before Governments find a tax to stick on it, whilst seeking to find competition to justify increasing the cost to us further.
In reading about TV energy consumption(See : Plasma-Greenhouse-Effect ) I saw a startling fact, we in Australia (and we aren't that odd that the figure is likely to be similar in the western world) have an average of 2.4 cars per household. I will leave it to another post to discuss the benefits of this figure being greater than the average number of kids, in terms of the greenhouse soap I am not sure which would be better - do kids or cars issue more polution over their life span and are which are fully biodegradable.
Now it may be a new thing or I may only just be noticing it for the first time, but my mind seems to have become a singles bar; lots of single ideas hanging around waiting for a matching partner to do wickedly delicious things with. This latest one instantly found a match with the recent news from India that a new small car will finially make it to market. Its not a new concept, many people in the past have identified the opportunity that a really cheap car with the ability to go on roads and goat tracks might offer. However this one is due to be released on a grand scale by a huge manufacturer.
Brilliant, wonderful news every Indian family, then every chinese family, then every arabic family and finally (not strictly in any order inparticular ) every african family can trade in their donkey for their 2.4 cars and we can all be on the same page. Now the whole family can have the freedom to move to the next village and beyond whenever they choose, they can learn to appreciate the difficulties in life that we have all grown so used to, traffic lights, road rage and exhaust fumes..... arrrrrggggghhhhh
The greenhouse crocodile comes back and bites me, grabs my legs and in a death role slowly slips under the surface to drown me. I feel the weight of the rock as it is put on my body wedging me under, whilst my body starts to decompose.
If cars are one of the top three emmiters of greenhouse gases, (simple numbers does it not inefficency) then what the hell is going to happen when the 2/3rds of the world that don't have them now get them ? Isn't this going to be a bit more of an issue than baning plastic bags, changing light bulbs and even stopping whaling ?
Just don't ask them if they would like a plasma Tv with the car !
The realist in me tells me the solution is not possible by simply changing the behavioural hbits of the western world, sure we should all become aware and more responsible but lets not kid ourselves that this will solve the problem or even slow it down. The world has to develop, the poorer countries can not be held back from getting the simple benefits the western world already have like hospitals, schools and access to modern transport.
If the world is in trouble now, it is doomed when this happens !
The problem will be solved by huge corporations that invest in a technology or science that will reverse the effects we are creating. Simplistic as it may seem and I am not even saying it is possible, but a satelite in orbit in the ozone layer could be converting the harmful stuff into good stuff whilst its telling us our GPS co-ordinates ? Instead of spending billions on traveling to Mars (for what purpose if the world is about to self destruct I might add), couldn't we just resolve this issue first, or perhaps we already have a solution in the wings and no-one wants to play their hand to early.
Just a note after reading this one might also think i am a pessimist, not true I am very much the optimist, I have no doubt the world will find the solution, it will be remarkable and we will collectively pat the genius of the human race on the back for it. We will of course then pay for it through some wild and fancy new corporate scheme before Governments find a tax to stick on it, whilst seeking to find competition to justify increasing the cost to us further.
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