James Hansen on How We Are Failing to Deal With Climate Change

First posted in June 2018. Four and a half years later and we’re still still travelling down the highway to hell at full speed.

In this Guardian article James Hansen discusses the failures of the last thirty years to deal with climate change and what needs to be done to rectify these failures.

James Hansen on Climate Change

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Nuclear Power – Our Future or Not?

First posted in June 2018 and since then renewables have come on in leaps and bounds. At the same time we need to stop wasting energy om pointless advertising as in this building in London.

Various people will tell us that without fossil fuels we need nuclear power but looking at this article about another possible quake in Japan and it makes you wonder if we are playing Russian Roulette on a global scale. Plate tectonics is not going to stop anytime soon so is anywhere safe to build these power plants. We all want the power but nobody wants the waste so how do we build a sustainable and modern future for all?

Another possible quake in Japan?

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The “I” in normal. “I” have always had a phone

First posted in March 2021.

18th March 2021

My seventh post of what “I” perceive as normal. Look around you. It’s a bit more difficult now that most of us are in some form of lockdown but nearly everyone inside and outside of your life bubble has a smartphone. They’re normal right? That may seem to be the case, especially if you are let’s say under 20 and you’ve been carrying a smartphone since you first went to school. Your “I” view is one where a smartphone is perfectly normal. Skip back just 50 years, to the time of the dinosaurs for some and some people, even in first world countries, didn’t have a phone in their house. We had to rely on phone boxes and hope that others were not using them or that they were actually functioning. Sounds terrible doesn’t it? Well just imagine that there are countless people in the world today that still don’t have a phone, it’s not “normal” for them. Take that thought a little further and consider where the materials come from that bring that shiny smartphone to you. Some of the materials involve child labour and unsafe working practices and are being extracted in conflict zones. What’s the real cost of the smartphone in your “I” world? Take your thought one step further out of your “I” world and consider the amount of energy required to bring the latest box set to your smartphone or whatever else you use it for. When there was just basic telephony the energy use was a lot less but the entertainment industry along with the technology industry that delivers the smartphone experience to you is part of the reason that this northern hemisphere Spring will probably see 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in at least 3 million years and probably a whole lot longer. Think about it.

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The “I” in normal. “I” have always had a phone

My seventh post of what “I” perceive as normal. Look around you. It’s a bit more difficult now that most of us are in some form of lockdown but nearly everyone inside and outside of your life bubble has a smartphone. They’re normal right? That may seem to be the case, especially if you are let’s say under 20 and you’ve been carrying a smartphone since you first went to school. Your “I” view is one where a smartphone is perfectly normal. Skip back just 50 years, to the time of the dinosaurs for some and some people, even in first world countries, didn’t have a phone in their house. We had to rely on phone boxes and hope that others were not using them or that they were actually functioning. Sounds terrible doesn’t it? Well just imagine that there are countless people in the world today that still don’t have a phone, it’s not “normal” for them. Take that thought a little further and consider where the materials come from that bring that shiny smartphone to you. Some of the materials involve child labour and unsafe working practices and are being extracted in conflict zones. What’s the real cost of the smartphone in your “I” world? Take your thought one step further out of your “I” world and consider the amount of energy required to bring the latest box set to your smartphone or whatever else you use it for. When there was just basic telephony the energy use was a lot less but the entertainment industry along with the technology industry that delivers the smartphone experience to you is part of the reason that this northern hemisphere Spring will probably see 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in at least 3 million years and probably a whole lot longer. Think about it.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

From Fish To Humans – An Article On How Our Convenient Lives Are Even Damaging Us

Read this, it is quite scary and we are all to blame.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-humans-a-microplastic-invasion-may-be-taking-a-toll/

Star spotted by scientists speeding across the universe and proving Einstein right – The Independent

A fascinating observation of a star getting closer to a black hole and proving Einstein right.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/star-black-hole-einstein-relativity-proof-light-a8466041.html

James Hansen on How We Are Failing to Deal With Climate Change

In this Guardian article James Hansen discusses the failures of the last thirty years to deal with climate change and what needs to be done to rectify these failures.

James Hansen on Climate Change

Nuclear Power – Our Future or Not?

Various people will tell us that without fossil fuels we need nuclear power but looking at this article about another possible quake in Japan and it makes you wonder if we are playing Russian Roulette on a global scale. Plate tectonics is not going to stop anytime soon so is anywhere safe to build these power plants. We all want the power but nobody wants the waste so how do we build a sustainable and modern future for all?

Another possible quake in Japan?

The Art of Being Civil

It seems to me that despite all this technology we are less civil than we used to be. Before emails were the norm individuals wrote or called each other and organisations by using pen and paper or the telephone fixed in your residence or place of work. Yes of course, there was probably less ‘traffic’ and you could ignore a phone call or letter. However, our current technology should make us more civil but has it? I know for a fact that many of my emails go answered where an automated response or manual one liner would prove that we fully embrace this technology and have advanced. Instead, we appear to have gone backwards, or at least a lot of people have.