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Comment to Rob Killick’s article of a similar name but opposite meaning.

I commented because this particular proposition - that we must stagnate and or go back to the stone age in order to protect the environment, really gets up my nose.  What is wrong with people’s imagination? We must have a new Industrial Revolution possibly known as the tech-tronic-dustrial revolution. We are at the beginning of the digital electronic revolution, not the end. We have the technology and the knowledge - we lack the will us it.

Why do we lack the will? We don’t. The industrialists do.

Examples:

1.  Food.

There is enough growing space and enough seed and water to feed the world’s population. It’s just that we don’t grow food to feed people! The industrialists grow food, market food and ship food to make money. Not to feed us all, simply to make money.

2. Energy.

There is enough energy available to power our homes using solar and wind generated electricity. We need different homes, not ones built while, and following the designs of ones built, when the steam engine ruled.

Back to my comment:

Rob,

Along with others, I don’t know where you get this idea from. Who is suggesting we destroy our economy? Who is suggesting the we compromise our way of life? If we leave the extreme-greenie-hippy-back-to-nature-groups out of this who is suggesting it?

What most people who recognise the dangers in what we are doing to the planet (even putting “Global Warming” to one side) is that we must change what we are doing to preserve our environment. This is obviously in danger of deteriorating to a point where it can’t support us all. We can’t ALL do this by living in tents and caravans and harvesting berries, there are just too many of us. We will need high technology to change the current balance from taking too much from our surroundings to putting something back , or at least, leaving what is there for the next generation to use. This seems to me just simple common sense.

What seems blatantly obvious to me should happen is that having invested umpteen billions in the financial system – when it is taken back (For the money to be vaporised back to where it came from – thin air.) We DO NOT vaporise it but we start the biggest rebuilding of our transportation system, our industrial base, our scientific community and our personal living conditions since the start of the original industrial revolution. If we can create £500 Billion to give to banks and survive virtually unpunished on the world stage we can do it again to secure our environmental and energy future. We DO NOT wait for the rest of the world, we lead, we invent, we demonstrate as we have in the past.

We get people working, DOING STUFF that benefits us all, Building, Insulating – tear down the worst – whole towns if we have too – and rebuild using 21st century knowledge and technology. Gut the petrol and diesel cars and retro fit electric propulsion – don’t tell me it can’t be done. Why waste what is already there?

Invent, Design and build the electrical networks and switching mechanisms that are required to handle disparate, differently sized intermittent AC and DC power and base load generation. Get the farms working again get PEOPLE back to farming and being interactive with the land – our farms are dying – the soil is dying from over fertilisation and over mono-cropping (is that a word?). Did you know that birds no longer follow tractors to get the bugs and worms turned up by the ploughing? Why – there are none to get – the birds have given it up as a bad source of food – that worries me that one fact! Get rid of SOME of the problems – Investigate and fix the problem with the Bees – Surely we could do that?

We are a small enough, densely populated enough country to make it all viable as an experiment. We do not have the vast distances that need covering in the US, China, Canada or Africa. We are small enough to be the experiment.

Then we sell our newly gained knowledge and our experience to the rest of the world. They are going to need it after peak oil/gas if they don’t start now. This is the type of “New world” that we can create – get a jump on the competition. This is the type of vision that the UK people need – something to strive for – something that has underlying good at its heart, something to be proud of as a nation. Some thing that will actually pay back to the people not to global banks, businesses and as you mentioned it, dictators.

In two words:

• Reading.
• Learning.

Making me:

• More Aware.
• More Concerned.

Hmmm a year has slid past :(  - I’ll tel you about it later maybe…

Here is comment I posted in response to “Reader Leaders” in the Guardian. Hope You enjoy it:
Clime-Flu gives Capitalism Cannibalism.

Today a meeting in Copenhagen known as COP-15 will commence to diagnose the illnesses of both our climate and unwittingly the cannibalism of our capitalism. One it seems has caught a nasty disease (Cannibalism) off the other.  Climate has the flu, symptoms are raised temperature, runny glaciers and infected and acrid waters.

Climate doctors point to the cause as “living in an area affected by noxious gases”. Among other causes of Clime-Flu such as substandard living conditions which include lack of forest vitamins and fresh clean water. The Clime-Flu virus is also causing climate’s “sneezing” distributing another virus known as “fossil-flue”. The sneezing of noxious fossil-flue germs is also blamed for a reduction in climate’s immune system leading to many small and hitherto unrecognised immuno-efficient inhabitants dying off.

Doctors are unsure of the consequences of the reduced immuno-efficient organisms but say “it’s not looking good”. Another complication is billions of tiny bugs on Climate’s outer skin (see “germ-bank feeders”). In centralised locations these germ-bank-feeders are exacerbating the noxious gases that give rise to the Clime-Flu symptoms and fossil-flue sneezing.

Experts say that the probably infection and death rate from clime-flu will be approximately 1 of 1 or 100% and are concerned that they do not have an antidote yet and add that current infection rate is also 100%. They repeated their earlier sentiments that “it’s not looking good”.

After tests scientists investigating the clime-flu outbreak think they have identified an underlying cause which they have named “Viral-Capitalism”. They are studying the nucleus (known in clime-flu circles as “banks of germs” or just banks for short) of the virus source. Under test conditions they formulated “Credit-Lunch-1″. This ingested medicine did in fact reduce the effect of the bank-feeders by approximately 3% overall and up to 5% in a particularly sensitive centralised island, but they misjudged the resourcefulness of the germ-banks which immediately switched to larger feeders known as “Countries”.

On a better note doctors have made a remarkable discovery: The virus seems to be “self limiting” in the sense that Viral-capitalism is not just causing clime-flu but has also started to consume itself (the Cannibalism). They are hoping that they can help the Cannibalism process along by developing “Credit-Lunch-2″. But they have reservations on the efficacy of this without using a dose powerful enough to actually kill the patient. Also Climate in a strange association is quite fond of all the bank-feeders as they can be useful in clearing up the mess caused by their centralised living and in the past have successfully dealt with over-active germ-banks.

So there we have have it, COP-15 in Copenhagen must decide whether to give the medicine or not. If they do not then the germ-banks will tire of bank-feeders and countries and just feast on Climate itself. If they give the medicine it must be just the right dosage to strengthen and allow the bank-feeders to deal with the bank-germs.

If you are concerned about what happens when you give a few people a lot of money and few rules - you should read this article on counterpunch

nuff said.

More sense from politicians! Twice in two days - I’ll need time to recover.

See BBC news Today

I see nef have given this a cheer too on their blog

I could not resist commenting on this one as someone somewhere in the EU has surely seen sense! Why do apples have to be 2″ across? A three year old faced with a 3″ or over (thats 75mm+ for mainland Europe)  apple would probably balk at trying to eat the thing. Has no one thought to market them as children’s apples? I give you Chapples - an instant marketing name providing an immediate 20% increase n productivity .

And don’t start me on funny shaped carrots ( they would have to be censored no doubt before display (unless they are on the top shelf).

Just for once let’s cheer the rare appearance of common sense in euro-land

I have noticed over the last few days that the title of the emails from Paypal detailing an Instant Payment have changed. This week-end I will assess the impact (if any) on the email reader in DespatchPal and make any changes necessary.

Registered users will be notified by email of any new download.

Not been any time for blog writing this week or month! my apologies to my subscriber - Indeed I have just one! (thank you!). So I am encouraged to write something new.
I see that other voices are taking up one of my (not unique) ideas to turn the Post Office network into something we, the people, can use. See this post on nefs Triple Crunch Blog

Also no supported by Peter Mandelson as out lined here on BBC News

There are parts of the wordpress editor missing today I am actually having to write this in pure html - no additional tools seem to be available or work so I will give up for tonight and try again tomorrow.

I’ll try to get a new page of the book done too! Otherwsie it will take a literal year of Sundays

Today I posted my first comment to someone else’s blog concerning the proposed windfall tax on energy. I mostly just think about posting,  I’m getting brave!

But the shilly-shallying of these massive (Non-UK) companies when it comes to their social responsibilities makes my blood boil! In essence I say to the government - Give them an ultimatum - voluntarily help those in need or pay the tax! I also say that a voluntary agreement would be more likely if these companies, that are vital to the nations well being, were actually still owned in the UK.

I don’t know if these Spanish, French and German companies are going to be asked to help their own domestic customers in the same way, but if that is likely is is also not likely that they would take the line “charity begins at home”. It raises another point in my mind - if we are all a jolly-joined-up caring Eurpean Community isn’t the UK “home” too?

I made it on time (ish). Version 2.1 can be downloaded directly from my web site at the moment. I have also uploaded it to FreewareBB and FreewareFiles and await the attention of the admins…

A lot of improvements to the single item editing screen and bug-fixes for the IE pasting. Enjoy!