Posts by Chris Waugh
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As close as I’ve managed to get to the ants, so far. I count at least four, perhaps a fifth but it’s hard to tell. The wee one asked what the ants were eating, but I couldn’t see, and her eyesight is much better than mine. What do ants do on flowers?
And up close-ish to two rabbits on the feet of a third. "没穿反了" (méi chuān fǎn le/I didn't put them on the wrong way round), she insisted, until I showed her the photo, then she quietly swapped them over.
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Oh, and people have always travelled over vast distances. What air travel changed is the speed with which we could cover those distances. Why should we stop travelling now? Isn't it better to use our imaginations to come up with cleaner ways of powering ourselves around the world?
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to ChrisW,
speaking up for all 10 billion readers? ;-)
No, just trying to replicate bouncing up and down in gleeful agreement.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Everyone would love to have crossed the Atlantic in the gilded age, but only because we all imagine we’d be in first class.
Well, no, actually, I'm not romanticising it. And besides, we have much better technology and slightly less obnoxious ideas about class than back then. I would quite like to see a network of nuclear-powered ferries transporting people trans-Pacific, and I would love to try travelling on such a service.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Farmer Green,
How does a high speed train in full flight cope with a significant earthquake?
Spectacularly, I would imagine, but not in a way the passengers and crew would appreciate. But that's what we have engineers for, right?
Agreed, though, all electric would be a good start.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Chris, your link seems damaged or misdirected?
No, it seems I just forgot to put the url in. Damn. Anyway, Hebe linked to the same thing I wanted to.
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Well, here's a good, powerful and thoughtful use of language re: climate change.
As for long-distance travel, I've always been a bit envious of my early 20th century predecessors of the International Settlement era and their long home leaves and travel by ship. Somehow air travel just does not feel like proper travel to me. But car, bus, train and boat travel, when you can sit and watch the scenery (or ocean, at least) pass by, that actually feels like you're going somewhere. Still, I must admit to having a psychological limit to how much time in a train I can face. Oh, and if China can do high speed rail (albeit at prices not much different from flying), why the hell can't NZ?
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to David Haywood,
There may be a clever way of doing it, but no-one’s discovered it yet.
Replanting forests?
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Luke Williamson,
I believe more and more that only environmental disaster of one form or another will slow us down.
Like some of us see Every. Bloody. Day? It's rather slow about slowing us down. It's still very, very easy to say "I'm only one person, what difference could I make?" - and there seem to be more than a few in NZ making that claim on a national level.
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Early.
