How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
This article, published a couple of months ago, relates to changes due to come into effect in 2011. It will increase fuel consumption of new cars across the EU by 5%. And this added to the biofuels wr ...
Just a few instances from The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts, 1811:
The Wool-comber
The Currier
The Soap-boiler
The Tallow Chandler
The Wire-drawer
The Brazier
The Cork-cutter
The Pe ...
. . . and the BBC! Chris Skrebowski was just interviewed on Radio 4 PM programme and put it very well - Peak at 2011 or 2013. Eddie Mair, the interviewer, sounded pretty stunned at those dates, but as ...
This Myanmar cyclone business is supposed to have killed 100,000 as of today. That's incredible. And what caused it? Just a very well known weather risk, and the fact that 100,000 or so poor so ...
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