Maybe we should take the fact of radio silence from outer space personally. The Drake equation states that the universe should be teaming with life but what if we are not considered worth the effort to contacting? It's all too easy to think from our perspective: human curiosity, a thirst for variation, a desire to 'contribute', because we can, power… but it is likely that the 'intelligence out their' has got to where it is by ignoring all these attributes?.
Or maybe we have already shown all the tell tail signs of a world that will self destruct, maybe their capacity for empathy (possibly being immortal?) far exceeds ours and 'ones bitten twice shy'; their collective conscious couldn't take another 'heart wrenching' tragedy such as they have so frequently observed, so choose to ignore, after all they have far more interesting things to ponder on (what ever they are since we will never know). Anyhow lets prove them wrong, that's what I would like humanity to change, "we'll show them" we say as we shake our puny little fist.
The Kyoto agreement is the most important agreement. For the last 3 months the Cafe Scientifique talks in Oxford have discussed about sustainable energy sources. We would all like to think that a technological solution to Global Warming is around the corner but it isn't! Fusion (clean CO2 free energy), hydrogen fuel cells and renewable energy sources are all fraught with many problems and are under funded. We all have to act now from the World governments to individuals.
A hypothetical objective position that might be useful is: if you where an alien intelligence what would you make of the way us humans behave? I know personally that they would see me as being too angry to be effective at encouraging people to save our planet so I have tried to hold my temper, but right now I'm furious at Joe public behaving predictably and mostly ignoring our first responsibility (the thing we live on).
Follow the link to photographer page for the rest of the song.
Follow the link to photographer page for the rest of nursery rhyme.
Follow the link to photographer page for gallerys.
If we are going to have anything to pass on, anything that will soften the hate future generations will have for us, it will be due to those who have adapted against their natural state of greed for the good of the whole world.
This very sad individual (see '4x4 drivers' link above.) is the image that comes into my mind when I see the high proportion of 4X4s on our roads. Virtually all people can get their head around the fact that murdering people is truly evil, what happens when it translates to murdering the planet? Why do so many people not accept that they shouldn't do it when they choose an inefficient car?
Their should only be a tiny fraction of the 4X4's in existence used by people whose job entails driving on
unsurfaced roads and rugged terrain (that dose not include the self important twats from “time team” that are too lazy to walk into a field and should be setting an example)
Most people when asked why they drive a 4X4 claim that it's their right. Well the guy in the photo has every
right to cross dress and shove his dick into an exorst pipe in public but, to put it mildly, he looks stupid.
However he got to that place he is not respecting himself or integrating with the “real world” properly. My argument is with the vast numbers of people that are not integrating with the real world. When I leave a computer on and waste electricity I feel bad about it and try and improve, that is how it needs to be. Irrespective of the details of climate change it is irrefutable that we all have a responsibility and it is that that scares me so much about the situation we are in. With CFC's all that had to be done was change the manufacture process so the ozone eating gasses where confiscated. The tools of our destruction are harder to recall and alter this time.
There are a lot of shameful ideas and practices that are obviously delusionary but would be strongly denied by the perpetrator. Here are a few:
