Posts Tagged ‘future’
8 Aug
Make you Fink on Friday
Reblogged from Living Simply Free
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Some say it’s not too late to save the environment but we have only four options. What do you think? I believe to save the environment we will need to do even more.
28 Oct
Monday Moaning
This is my 100th Monday Moaning…
Nobody does Nuthin’!
There is so much crap out there and it appears as though nobody is doing anything because things are just getting worse.
It doesn’t matter whether it is the climate, global warming, CO2 emissions, pollution, GMOs, industrial and agricultural poisons, BPA, just to name a few.
We have become complacent.
Isn’t life worth fighting for? Have we all rolled over and are playing dead?
Daily, I read the news, the more I read, the more despondent I become. I am at the tail end of life, soon it won’t matter for me, but I am leaving children and grandchildren who are going to pay for our collective apathy.
The people who generally read this blog are not included in the apathetic, they try in big and small ways. But the people who should be in control are the apathetic ones, the politicians, the governments, the media, the organisations who are there to protect us, and they are not.
When are we the people going to take our power back?
Because if we don’t, there’s going to be a lot more suffering in the future, your children, your grandchildren.
</rant>.
15 Aug
Could this be the Future?
While this particular project is not for housing, it could be the blueprint for future housing, move house, just get up and go, take it with you.
You can read about this project on: inhabitat
6 Feb
Change the World Wednesday – 6th Feb
This week has been rough so far. Sunday night I received that most dreaded of all phone calls from my brother in New Zealand; our mother had died two hours earlier (Monday morning NZT). There is a brief post on my Life blog.
The first big green tick on my list.
Finally, after many false starts, I managed to get my ‘new’ fridge.
The old is relegated to the garage where, should it be needed, it will serve as a beer fridge.
The new fridge is installed, and today received its first load from the supermarket.
The Fridge, the final in the saga.
The truck
Looks terrible, but the dirt is not a lack of cleanliness, rather the remains of adhesive. The previous owners had covered it.
The limousine
There, isn’t that a beauty? Economic power usage, frost free, no more polar bears lurking in the kitchen at night.
Reinstalled
From last week’s CTWW, I took my own advice and reinstalled Thunderbird to seriously get over the problem of ‘the cloud’.
While there are some who would call me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ I do seriously believe that cloud computing is a threat to us all and among the steps necessary for global control; while most just see it as a dandy innovation. So a new item on my list, and another green tick.
Update
My List:
#1 :: A new fridge to reduce the electricity gobbling monster I have currently. – √
#2 :: Change the element in the shower head. The current one only works on Low and Off, which is good for saving energy, but the with winter only a few months away, when the water is intolerably cold, I do like a Hot shower in the winter. I have the element, it’s in the little white plastic bag in the ‘tooly’ section of my junk drawer. It’s been there for a few months now… procrastination.
#3 :: Reinstall Thunderbird and take control of my correspondence again. – √
#4 :: I haven’t got a four yet.
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Okay, on with this week’s CTWW.
This week’s challenge is taking some overt action over a very important issue – FRACKING
While fracking appears to be a wonderful solution to our/the world’s fossil fuel problem, or so the corporations and governments would have us believe, it is one of the most dire threats to us and the environment that exist.
This week, sign NRDC’s letter to President Obama asking him to protect us from dangerous fracking. You’ll find it HERE. This letter is appropriate for everyone and can be signed by people worldwide. However, if fracking takes place in your country and you’d rather contact your officials, the following information may help:
Fracking by Country
Fracking in the UK
Fracking in Canada
Fracking in Denmark
Fracking in Ireland
Or …
If you’d rather not sign an online letter/petition, please contact your local officials about fracking and let them know how you feel. If fracking isn’t an issue in your area, consider contacting your officials regarding an issue which concerns you about the environment.
Petitions don’t work for me, because most of the ‘log-in’ pages for petitions will not accept Brazilian the address system and my entries are rejected.
But as my part of the challenge, I urge you to take part; and the links below are to posts that I have written/posted on the subject. If you are unsure about fracking, or undecided on the issue, then have a look to get an idea of the disasterous consequences of this process from hell.
Oh you don’t know about the infernal implications, then watch this video clip of the very devil in your kitchen.
Links
I haven’t written/mentioned fracking because it’s a fun thing to do. If I consider that it’s worth spending the time to open the debate, then you should too; because it’s your future, and the future of the generations to come, if the generations to come are to have a future.
21 Jan
Monday Moaning
This week not such a moan.
But I would like you to heed a mother’s plea.
Think, are we doing enough for the future?
28 Nov
Change the World Wednesday – 28th Nov
I have to do it!
I have to do it to remain sane.
I have to write a CTWW post.
Oh, yum, yum, yum…
Wednesdays just aren’t Wednesday without one. I tried to give them up last week, but it made the week seem so empty, it was like trying to give up chocolate.
I know that Small Footprints needs a break, that she devotes a lot of time to CTWW and has a household to run and a 3D life to lead, whereas some, like me, live in a 2D world and housework involves doing the dishes and my washing once a week. The world for a hermit is vastly different to real people, so simple and undemanding.
There is no challenge as such, but rather a thought. A wander, if you like, into the far far distant future…
The Age We Made
Gaia Vince concludes her journey through the geological age humans have launched. After climate change and mass extinction, she now explores moves how the world’s cities and manufactured artefacts (from mobile phones to plastic bottles) might become ‘fossilised’ and incorporated into the geological record. Some are bound to survive in crushed form for the rest of the Earth’s existence. Any distant-future geologist would recognise them as strange features unique in the planet’s 4 billion year rock record: chaotic rock layers preserving urban rubble and underground tunnels – mudstones unnaturally rich in zinc, cadmium and mercury – and the occasional crushed mobile phone or plastic bottle transformed from polymer to delicate coal. These rocks and artificial ‘fossils’ will be evidence of a planetary shift into the new time period, which today’s geologists call the Anthropocene.
Click to listen to the BBC Discovery broadcast
So, as we have epochs of the past like the Jurassic and Triassic, those in the distant future will have the Anthropocene, us.
We are doomed to become the ‘past’ and studied much in the same way as we study our past… and so it will go on.
But a crucial question will be, if these intelligent beings from the past (us) could build and create such a world, why couldn’t they have prevented their own extinction?
Good question… next, that one is too hard to answer.
You can also listen to other episodes by visiting the BBC link.
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