We watched a show last night called “Around the World in 90 Minutes”. It showed the International Space Station doing one complete circuit of our planet and highlighted what was going on in countries below and what happens on the planet in those 90 minutes.
Whether it’s trees cut down, carbon dumped into the atmosphere, increase in population, plastic dumped into the sea all of it makes for very depressing viewing. What was more depressing was the assumption that the world is a great place and nature will fix these problems and everything will be hunky dory. You can bet your bottom dollar that nature will fix these problems in due course but expect half the people on the planet to disappear in a major spring clean.
I could rant on for ages about how stuffed our planet is but you’ve heard it all before. If you need me, I’ll be out the back banging my head against the garage wall or down at the beach.
I’ll be easy to pick out.
Aww look at the bright side Dogbait. You’re old and will be long dead before you’re cooked by global warming…
Yes, you are right. Why worry about it. In your case, you might have a lot more snow on them there hills around your place.
Family reunion,better reason than a funeral to get everyone together.Though it was 12 miles on a logging road up a mountain and then down into a valley, very hairy.
Holy shite! You can scape together 110 family members. I’d be lucky to count mine on one hand. Whoever said, “Go forth and multiple” had you guys in mind.
I remember being in Phoenix, Arizona, before air conditioning was the norm, and only the rich had swamp coolers. Everyone had sleeping areas outside, usually a four walled out building built of wood or pipe, then you’d drape burlap over the walls (used burlap brought home by my Uncle who had job with AT&SF Railroad), and then we’d run a garden hose at the top or the frame with lots of holes punched in it so that water would drip onto the burlap and when the wind picked up you’d get a cool breeze, or if there wasn’t any running water available you would dip a sheet in water and crawl under it. Yeah back in the good ol’ days we left a much smaller carbon footprint, but if your used burlap was used for shipping onions, you woke up in the morning smelling a little funky. You also had to contend with all the other critters that lived outside that were searching for moisture, like scorpions and mosquitoes.
Very informative. So you can class yourself as a pioneer too. I guess there wouldn’t be too many people without A/C in Arizona these days.
Back, waved at you from Hwy 101.Very nice being with people who really care about the environment, about 110 of us and not one piece of trash left on the farm.
Good for you. Gee, you weren’t away for long. What were 110 of you doing on a farm? At a rock festival?
We came across 2 bears walking across 101 just north of Reedsport. No, that’s not the start of a joke.
It’s been hotter than 30C here for the past 5 or 6 days, and everyone is grumbling and turning the A/C up to high. We are really a society that has got used to being comfortable all the time, we can’t take a few days of stuffy humid heat without complaining. What did the pioneers do without A/C? They had to grin and bear it. Mind you, I’m complaining as loudly as everyone else!!
30c here is like a nice, pleasant day. It can get as high as 47c here and we don’t have A/C. Not worth it for just a few extreme days a year. Of course, at my age now I feel like a pioneer.
Your 47C probably feels like our 30C as we have heavy humidity… can hardly breathe some hot days.
Yep, it’s the humidity that can make life unpleasant. Our heat is usually very dry and bearable. We were in Darwin once just before the wet season and I was lying naked on the bed of our camper van at 2am sweating like a pig. Not a pleasant thought, I know.
Sweating like a pig.
Do pigs actually sweat?
Pigs don’t have sweat glands but they wallow in mud and puddles to keep cool hence the saying.
Global warming?!?!? I wish … it’s effing freezing today!
14c is freezing? Hardly and you’re in a heated office anyway.
Didn’t work today, was out and about and it was a lot colder than 14c (where I was anyway)!
Wish I had a job as good as yours when I was there.