tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182809268200876854.post3688987127429006289..comments2023-02-26T05:10:10.369-08:00Comments on collaterals of climate change: Redesign living so no squandering of fossil fuel at ten percent efficiency occursRamaswami Ashok Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15525366311000374653noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182809268200876854.post-57929483846727341092019-06-06T23:45:23.748-07:002019-06-06T23:45:23.748-07:00Re: https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/ar...Re: https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/with-bated-breath-5769076/<br />"Given enough time modern civilization will self destroy."-Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 1908.<br />"Great beasts, fantastically shaped, armored skin. Lumbering giants that ceaselessly roam the land to plunder every natural resource within their grasp,devouring the weak,the slow. Their breath is hot,cloying, steeped in deliberate destruction and death.<br />" Jurassic Park? A lost colony of tyrannosaurs left over from 65 million years ago? No, it's any modern U.S. city and the inexorable daily stampede of steel machines on rivers of asphalt, belching toxic fumes that foul the lives of every living being, a beast that kills as surely as the senseless, serrated teeth of a T.rex."-Terry Tamminen.2006.Lives per Gallon: The true cost of our oil addiction.<br />See Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2015. collaterals of climate change: Redesign living so no squandering of fossil fuel at ten percent efficiency occurs.<br />Stop automobiles for individual transport. Transfer the employees of the car juggernaut to plant and nurture ecological forests in People's cooperatives for the next millennia. It will solve a multiplicity of disaster inducing problems with mulitple outputs of zero cost services for soil, air and water and thus ensure health of all living beings.<br />"In living in this world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists."-Wendell Berry,1970s in The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture.<br />There is nothing more tragic than ignorance in action(Goethe). Growth of gross nature product is the need of the hour, go over to a normal way of life or perish.<br />Ramaswami Ashok Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525366311000374653noreply@blogger.com