tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129995781979193351.post5124489977311801773..comments2023-11-05T04:24:32.020-08:00Comments on The clouded head's Blog: Eclectic writing - a daily dose of prose Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12423285073691606288noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129995781979193351.post-83939615231719080402015-06-06T15:44:06.882-07:002015-06-06T15:44:06.882-07:00Hi Mathijis.... 8-)
I am very much like you in my...Hi Mathijis.... 8-)<br /><br />I am very much like you in my thinking, which is why I'm mostly concerned about over-population, which creates, drives or accelerates all the biosphere problems we face - although too many people are ignorant enough, self-serving enough, or scared enough to avoid or deny reality as we understand it so far.<br /><br />Science is the only methodology that produces real, accurate results, never mind the immense knowledge that rational, freethinking inquiry has discovered - in spite of the centuries of power religions had to stifle anything not to their faithist, revealed god's liking.<br /><br />I have greatly reduced my ecological footprint over the past 15 yrs, especially so since I retired in 2010, after 30 yrs as tech sales eng on the road, so my driving has reduced 90%, plus I live north of Toronto in a power-efficient 950sqft 2 bed ground level apartment, where I cook all my fresh food meals economically - I'm a good, local shopper, for anything.... 8-)<br /><br />I still think more UK than CDA in my needs, since my home is bigger than when I was a kid in Scotland and our family of 5 had a smaller home, never mind my grandparents, who had 8 kids in a similar space in Clydebank between WW1 & WW2.<br /><br />The big problem in Cda is that we're the #2 at 5x, behind the USA at 9x ecological carrying capacity, while Europe is back around 3.5. The fact is that 'we' in the advanced, consumptive, polluting 'west' have the biggest changes to make in our expectations if there is to be a major impact on global sustainability issues.<br /><br />AGW is accelerating in response to our population explosion in the last 100 years - if our population had remained under 2-3 billion we'd have far more time & chance of tackling & avoiding AGW.<br /><br />All other issues - from resource depletions, food chain disruptions to all manner of pollutions - are supercharged by there being 7 billion of us, while 'long-term' research shows we need a max of about 2 billion - but that's just too big a psychological deal when we can't get even our (personal to global) shit together on anything useful to all the biological creatures on our Pale Blue Dot....! J M Calder.Mac Bitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189285689098399302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129995781979193351.post-53180217572617520562015-06-06T07:43:50.753-07:002015-06-06T07:43:50.753-07:00Where no man has (yet) goneWhere no man has (yet) goneAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247499720316146521noreply@blogger.com