If that order is correct we can all switch back to steam trains to use the
coal (which were my first love, pre-birding). Would need a few lines laying
to decent birding spots though....
On 30/03/07, Tim Murphy <> wrote:
Peak Oil, followed by Peak Gas, Uranium, and Coal, in about that order
will
shortly make travel, and many other activities prohibitively expensive and
we will find that CO2 emissions will start dropping.
I do not know if the various Peaks will be in time to save us from Global
Warming and wrecking ecological disaster on this planet first. I doubt,
personally that we will be so lucky.
For more on Peak Oil, start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil or
use Goggle.
Tim Murphy
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From:
Behalf Of Chris Lloyd
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:57 AM
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Global Warming
The recent posts on climate change are an interesting mixed bag.
Churlishly
I could see discussions about flights to various exotic locales to see a
"one off" bird for twitching purposes as little different to the Sydney
Morning Herald prattling on about climate change with a large
advertisement
for a gas guzzling Jaguar on the same page.
As the head of Blair's panel on the issue pointed out some months ago - we
haven't yet got the picture of how big the changes are we will have to
make.
We literally have to turn off the air-conditioning, sell the
jetski/4x4/trailbike ad nauseum now if our kids are to continue seeing
butterflys.
Our will to do this I suspect is limited by a socio-economic system which
sees individuals as modularised consuming units within a system of
production for productions sake. Without fundamental change to the
underlying philosophy of this society there will be little real effort to
reduce the impact of climate change.
Just a short note on corruption. I remember a Tanzanian engineer in
Daresalem saying corruption was endemic in Africa but "you white guys are
so good at it". That might be how Paul Lennon is feeling at the moment
with
the loaded Gunn or Dick Cheney who has managed to give Halliburton a
permanant IV from the US budget.
Chris Lloyd
Training Officer
WIRES
PO Box 260
Forestville NSW 2087
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