rockits
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It does seem that a blended multi faceted approach is needed. There are so many stupid anomalies and chinks in the joined up end to end quest for improvements.
As many have said, just moving the problem around isn't solving the problem.....it is just moving it around. It still exists but somewhere else and not on your doorstep so not your problem. Er....yes...it is still is your problem....so just deal with it.
We could have done so much more years ago by forcing many businesses to take decisions that were better for the world rather than primarily for profit. We are looking to build something hopefully at some point and when we do the kitchen sink will be thrown at it to make it carbon neutral and actually a nett generator of power. Just like a little mini power station. It will of course come at additional cost to us and the build budget. However it is the right thing to do....at our cost. No govt grants or help just our decision. If developers had started doing this years ago we would be a long way down the line in some areas.
Unfortunately until corruption, lobbying and all the reason change cannot occur are removed from most of our first world developed states' political systems then nothing wil change to any discernable level.
If we reduced this constant need and desire for more then maybe consumerism can be kerbed somewhat. It starts with biggest govts and billionaires of course as they run the biggest entities that can fashion the greatest change. When is enough enough for people. We don't need more to be greener, better or happier.....we need less!
When you see pointless competitions between Gates, Musk, Bezos et al as to how much money they have is somehow a measure of how amazing or successful they are then it is all wrong from the top down. They are irresponsible and shaping the way vulnerable minds are thinking. How strange that so many feel the need to understand success as a measure as the number on a screen. Slightly ironic and maybe linked perhaps that these thoughts allow extreme consumerism to flourish conveniently into the very pockets of the people that benefit the most from said consumerism. Who'd have thunk it?
As many have said, just moving the problem around isn't solving the problem.....it is just moving it around. It still exists but somewhere else and not on your doorstep so not your problem. Er....yes...it is still is your problem....so just deal with it.
We could have done so much more years ago by forcing many businesses to take decisions that were better for the world rather than primarily for profit. We are looking to build something hopefully at some point and when we do the kitchen sink will be thrown at it to make it carbon neutral and actually a nett generator of power. Just like a little mini power station. It will of course come at additional cost to us and the build budget. However it is the right thing to do....at our cost. No govt grants or help just our decision. If developers had started doing this years ago we would be a long way down the line in some areas.
Unfortunately until corruption, lobbying and all the reason change cannot occur are removed from most of our first world developed states' political systems then nothing wil change to any discernable level.
If we reduced this constant need and desire for more then maybe consumerism can be kerbed somewhat. It starts with biggest govts and billionaires of course as they run the biggest entities that can fashion the greatest change. When is enough enough for people. We don't need more to be greener, better or happier.....we need less!
When you see pointless competitions between Gates, Musk, Bezos et al as to how much money they have is somehow a measure of how amazing or successful they are then it is all wrong from the top down. They are irresponsible and shaping the way vulnerable minds are thinking. How strange that so many feel the need to understand success as a measure as the number on a screen. Slightly ironic and maybe linked perhaps that these thoughts allow extreme consumerism to flourish conveniently into the very pockets of the people that benefit the most from said consumerism. Who'd have thunk it?
