Some day we'll all discover that the same conservation of energy
required to make the long marginal glide is necessary in other walks
of life. We pay the maintenance costs of our cars and aircraft. How
much is it worth to maintain the planet we live on, so we and others
can enjoy life?
You can live the low energy lifestyle now in the poorer parts of
Africa but you choose not to. There isn't much gliding going on
amongst the general population there. The people degrade their
environment severely in their desperation to get enough to eat
because they don't have enough technology or energy. I see the
greenies are now trying to stop the building of hydroelectric dams in
Ethiopia, the only form of renewable energy that works(report in The
Weekend Australian).
No need to tell this group, but there seems to be more to life
than finances.
Substitute "economics" and think carefully about how biological
systems work. Its *all* about the energy/materials economy of their
environment. By using our brains we have managed to generate
surpluses which enable us to be "not all about finances" which lets
us do things like gliding and private flying and everything else that
humans do that isn't about getting enough to eat.
And enough anti-renewable energy ranting. There are many
subsidies and protections for energy systems more nasty than solar,
wind, geothermal, etc that nobody talks about. Look up
"price-anderson" for a start. It's not Australian, but nor is Oshkosh.
Yeah I looked up Price - Anderson. So what? Did you actually read
about the details?
This is interesting when you talk about "nasties"
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
You remind me of the attitudes being highlighted in my second
favorite Glenn Frey song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT3X1Z5z9P0
There used to be a better version by the man himself but it seems to
have disappeared. Listen carefully to the words.
Mike
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