The "moving to Canada" comment was just a crack to get a rise from someone. A light troll.
Me: Boy Scout doing conservation work at age 12. Always leave any place you go cleaner than when you arrived. Never litter. Clean up roadsides. Solar on home. Worked testing solar thermal collectors for certification. Custom testing of same. Bought and beta tested an Organic Transit Elf. Tried to start a lab for evaluating lithium ion cells. Electric mower. Electric Pressure washer. Support green politics. Donate to green causes. Install efficient appliances when possible. Recycle what can be recycled. Etc. I want a clean, cool earth. I just don't think we will succeed. But,* if we are unrealistic about this effort, then that is just another weight on the wrong side of the scale. * I don't think current lithium battery tech supports widespread use of EVs without decades of infrastructure construction. Mines are the first step. We need to stop putting solar where the sun isn't and turbines that don't work where the energy resource is lacking. So if we try to collect solar where the sun actually shines, the grid that supports the effort is many times what we already have. We are not taking steps to solve so many components of our problem. It is a human problem at the heart of it. We don't react well to things that don't smack us in the face, and plenty of very motivated people with the capital to do something don't think it matters, or they are more interested in trying to monetize the chaos (like believing we can move towards the poles). We have not evolved the mentation, and cognitive biases that would aim towards collectively solving this dire situation. On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 11:22 PM Cor van de Water <cor.vandewa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael E Ross wrote: > > Yeah, unlimited is hyperbolic, but > > there is no limit in my lifetime. > > I do not know if you have kids or nieces and nephews, heck even friends > with kids. Is that what you tell them if they want to know if the earth > will still be liveable in *their* lifetime? > I can't look my kids in the eye without considering what I did to try and > make their life and their future kids' still worth living. > I am afraid that "not in my lifetime" is one of the reasons we are in this > mess in the first place... > Cor. > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20231030/33895aa8/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
