Strangely Perfect

New Jaguar XJ In common with most cars like this, it’s a lovely looking machine – a style marvel; sleek and vapid, mercurial. It’s also a waste of space and a waste of effort. It’s two tonnes of mass for a 400kg payload is pants.  An ecological disaster zone. Money for Old Rope Not only [...]

Fizzy Oceans Spell Doom As an almost instananeous follow up (the interconnectedness of all things?) to my recent disappointment about the launch failure of the OCO satellite, the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph etc  have all been reporting some recent climate work from Plymouth. An Italian Bay There’s now so much CO2 being absorbed by the oceans [...]

Willie Sutton In a curious parallel with the Great Depression when many millions lost their homes and money, I’m reminded about the phrase reputedly said by a USA bank robber of the time, and how it could equally well be applied to our current predicament…. When asked “Mr Sutton, why do you rob banks?”, he [...]

Paris Cycles Freely with Loaded Questions and Answers In Buddhism, there’s a concept called the forces of negativity which is inherent to the whole universe – but especially when applied to living sentient beings like ourselves. These negative forces are extremely apparent when the Velib Cycle Scheme in Paris is considered.  We have: The initial [...]

What indeed? Today, we’ve had two (at least these are the ones I’ve spotted) news releases from the Department for Transport (DfT) that presage some changes in the future: Advisers urge fast action on speed limiters – FT Drivers ‘face health tests every decade’ – Guardian Now all we have to work out is, “What [...]

Extreme and risky action the only way to tackle global warming, say scientists in the Guardian’s article tonight.  In it, they argue that because nowt is happening anywhere in the world to stop the warming trend, individual scientists and organisations should take action themselves, like blotting out the sun or seeding the ocean to make [...]

It’s a complex economic world be appear to live in, but the reality is it’s all very simple at the macroscopic level. Below is a little mini-list of a chain reaction of Actions (or Causes as they are known in Nichiren’s Buddhism) in The West causing Effects in The West – basically, the Chinese have [...]

Here’s something (link now dead – originally at http://72.232.216.38/manahmanah/44990/Nuclear_I_spit_on_you.html? ) I posted on an Australian blog that caught my eye. I just had to speak. Sorry. It’s about the various options for transport and other energy policies, paying special attention to Guy Negre’s air-powered car concept. This is the text as posted: The thing is [...]