Let's try this again….
RE: global warming. If you’re trying to drive from Paris to Amsterdam, and you find you’re actually on the road to Madrid, it’s no good just slowing down to 50 kph.
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Thomas:
Still, by slowing down it would give someone the chance to better appreciate the view along the highway on the way to Madrid. ; )
…and the drive to Madrid from Paris is much nicer than the one to Amsterdam anyway. Why not go to sunny Spain, then you can catch the Trans-Europe Express back up to the Netherlands – maybe you’ll ‘meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie’!
Turning that car around isn’t so easy… more like a giant cargo ship. Why are we in such a hurry anyway? Wouldn’t the trip be more enjoyable on a bicycle?
Beech
It would be the right time to invest in a new SatNav methinks which will save unnecessary petrol consumption and in turn, add 12 minutes onto the lifespan of the planet (please note: figures quoted are rough guidelines..) Jim
Mmm
I pick up my new BMW M3 in June….
Am I a bad person?
Oh dear, another fatalist! (LMBAO)
There are a million roads leading nowhere in particular. No one knows where the road leads, or even if the destination they want to reach is at the end of any given road. No one knows where they are going; just driving “somewhere” hoping that they can slow the inevitable…running out of roadway.
I’ve never been to Spain.
Why try it again? We were having a perfectly fascinating discussion “back there”. The
sharing of ideas without animosity–the way it should be.
And Valen, would that BMW happen to be a hybrid, hee hee?
Peace and driving metaphors,
Kara
RE: global warming. If you’re trying to drive from Paris to Amsterdam, and you find you’re actually on the road to Madrid, it’s no good just slowing down to 50 kph.
No it’s not.If you’re trying to drive from Paris to Amsterdam and find yourself on the road to Madrid I’d contend that you had indeed made it to Amsterdam and were now actually on your way to Madrid as intended!
Re Lets try this again……
“for what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Maybe its time to find the road less travelled, less traffic!
Yup, english boy, and then ride a bike on it!
But drivers in Winnipeg
don’t want to share the roads…I wrote a couple of letters to the editor
of the Winnipeg Sun about it. And, yes, cycling on the sidewalk in
Winnipeg is illegal for adults. “Ride near the curb”, the city advises, but
the curb lanes of the streets are rife with potholes…wow, that sounds like
a metaphor! And it kind of *is*… the road to an zero-environmental-impact
future is riddled with potholes. Ha!
Peace and pedal-power, Kara
>RE: global warming. If you’re trying to drive from Paris to Amsterdam, and you find you’re actually on the road to Madrid, it’s no good just slowing down to 50 kph.
I understand the purpose of your analogy—that we need to not just slow down polluting the planet (with CO2 or otherwise) but find a way to reverse the damage. At the moment all the talk is of reducing CO2 while we still will be pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.
I recall reading/hearing somewhere (I’m not convinced it is an original thought of mine) that the benefit of “slowing down”, so to speak, would give us more time to figure out how to “turn around”, and that itself is a good reason to focus on slowing down until something better comes along.
As far as anthropometric global warming is concerned, I find myself veering at the moment towards similar thoughts expressed by Jon (“White City”) so eloquently yesterday. I am also all for reducing emissions of all kinds as far as possible. But the cost to developing nations of withholding the means of production on disputed evidence (it is still disputed despite what many say) is something that also needs to be taken into account. I wonder if it would be effective, realistic, and more economical to use some of the money devoted to reducing carbon emissions to building flood/storm defences or relocating populations in climate-endangered areas. I am sure somebody smarter than I has given some thought to this so I will go search the web as soon as I have some free time.
* I meant “anthropogenic” of course before anyone mocks me mercilessly (it’s gone midnight here folks!
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