Tanada wrote:
Your complaint is based on the idea that change can not take place.
It's not a complaint but a fact, and I mentioned that to question the topic thread.
Tanada wrote:
Your complaint is based on the idea that change can not take place.
ralfy wrote:Tanada wrote:
Your complaint is based on the idea that change can not take place.
It's not a complaint but a fact, and I mentioned that to question the topic thread.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:
Just because your mind was made up decades ago about how the world works does not mean the rest of us must accept your refusal to change as a requirement for ourselves.
When Diesel was running at close to $5/gallon here in the midwest a lot of short haul trucking was still done but even more of the long haul variety was shifted to rail transport which is greatly more fuel efficient. IOW real human beings out here in the real world adapt to altered circumstances, they don't just throw up their hands in surrender and die without trying to adapt.
Tanada; " IOW real human beings out here in the real world adapt to altered circumstances, they don't just throw up their hands in surrender and die without trying to adapt."
onlooker wrote:-snip-
But make no mistake about it, though at first the rich countries will adapt to some degree to PO, ultimately these same countries are the most vulnerable to it because of their reliance on prodigious amouts of energy to provide the necessities and keep their Economies viable.
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