http://materialsman.com/2009/12/copenhagen/ Construction materials and bird watching anecdotes Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:28:49 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://materialsman.com/2009/12/copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Ian Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:42:33 +0000 http://materialsman.com/?p=785#comment-418 Well if technology with political will in a market place that demands less pollution, that is us, cannot affect a change to producing less CO2, then we are as you say heading for a natures' sort out. The behavioural change to make people who have, to change, and the people who aspire to have, to change is proportionate to each one of us making choices in the right direction. Unfortunately the populations needed to make the right choices are the Americans, the Chinese, the Indians and the Russians. You're right, my hope in a few of the "worse of climate incidents" may not wake up the sleeping consumptive giant. US residents ordering more and more non American cars might, A Chinese company looks favourite to buy Volvo and perhaps Saab, what if Chinese green hybrids of these acceptable cars start eating away at home sales in America? Len you head for your metaphorical limestone cave with seed bank, shotgun and snares, just give me a GPS co-ordinate in case I need to join, sorry help you. Well if technology with political will in a market place that demands less pollution, that is us, cannot affect a change to producing less CO2, then we are as you say heading for a natures’ sort out. The behavioural change to make people who have, to change, and the people who aspire to have, to change is proportionate to each one of us making choices in the right direction. Unfortunately the populations needed to make the right choices are the Americans, the Chinese, the Indians and the Russians. You’re right, my hope in a few of the “worse of climate incidents” may not wake up the sleeping consumptive giant. US residents ordering more and more non American cars might, A Chinese company looks favourite to buy Volvo and perhaps Saab, what if Chinese green hybrids of these acceptable cars start eating away at home sales in America?
Len you head for your metaphorical limestone cave with seed bank, shotgun and snares, just give me a GPS co-ordinate in case I need to join, sorry help you.

]]> http://materialsman.com/2009/12/copenhagen/comment-page-1/#comment-417 lencroney Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:18:44 +0000 http://materialsman.com/?p=785#comment-417 SO, you got your weather event in the US, and no, it didn't affect California, and it won't affect the American way. Technology is one thing, a state of mind is another, and we are aping the American way of conspicuous consumption even as we pontificate on climate change. We can put a few cans in a plastic recyling bag every week and go on using more of the worlds resources with a clear concience. Or, if we are governments, we can pay contractors vast sums to put up wind turbines to salve our political conciences, even thought they take more energy to make than they can ever generate. It isn't a technical issue, it is about how long we can fool ourselves into thinking we are doing something before the Earth sorts it out for us, which it will, one way or another, we just might not be here to see how it does it. SO, you got your weather event in the US, and no, it didn’t affect California, and it won’t affect the American way. Technology is one thing, a state of mind is another, and we are aping the American way of conspicuous consumption even as we pontificate on climate change. We can put a few cans in a plastic recyling bag every week and go on using more of the worlds resources with a clear concience. Or, if we are governments, we can pay contractors vast sums to put up wind turbines to salve our political conciences, even thought they take more energy to make than they can ever generate. It isn’t a technical issue, it is about how long we can fool ourselves into thinking we are doing something before the Earth sorts it out for us, which it will, one way or another, we just might not be here to see how it does it.

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