The glass is half full

Come fall in my hole - there is no way out

2011-05-09T09:46:00.000+10:00

Take this response to Justin Bubber concert
Parents all going on about how this puppet is a clean sweet role model for the stupid generation. Get some Sex Pistols into them. Dunno if you've noticed but life isn't all sweetness. Kids need exposure to the grimy side of life, because that is what life often is.

The west can still make a difference to those with real disasters

2011-02-25T10:53:00.000+11:00

If its stops reimagining its own .
Our Prime Minister and her deputy Mr Bob Brown are worried and lead a group of wooriers to announce their solution to impeding doom yesterday . Need to get in early with things you know . If only they would stop worrying about non issues in Australia and help Asia and Africa get planned out of the real distaers they face.
YES we in the west can solve problems - we just don't believe we can ( at least a few wannabes anyway)

Why country people are now less worried than the city about the environment

2010-09-06T17:43:00.002+10:00

The city worries about sustainability because, within the confines of its two column ledger world, it would have nothing within a few days of supply failure. The modern accountancy driven myopia of the city makes the majority of modern urban cultures very vulnerable to fear and fanaticism on environmental issues (and a form of arrogance about just how easy it is to cream off a percentage ?).

The country, on the other hand, is not in such a panic about the amazing world we live in , and for good reasons based on their close experience of it . Its credentials include being able to cope with bothscarcity and abundance in ways the cities only dream bad dreams about.

By living with the amazing reality of elastic strength within the solid structure of the created order, rural people learn to respect the mazing resilience of the sensitive world in which they make their home and their living . Copyright Emperor's Academy

This doesn't mean rural producers do everything right. But it does mean to even to be there and stay there ,they have to be sensitive and therefore have a lot to contribute to any discussion on resilience .

The consensus answer for Parliament : Instead of having the lead chicken little Greens telling us all their fears, ( or farmers avoid any criticism at all) lets have some resilience experts advice us by applying science and big picture thinking to the questions of living within limits.
Confidence in these complex matters can and should be based on a commitment to the sort of objective scientific assessment outlined and its application to planning and public administration in a sensitive, but not sentimental, manner.

We don't need more panic merchants - there are enough of those around.

2005-04-22T00:28:00.000+10:00

Mirror site for realists try glasshalfempty1.blogspot.com

2004-01-28T11:10:00.000+11:00

Heres a suggestion:
Rate the latest fad in conservation lower than all the previous fads and you will keep most in perspective .
silent spring is not silent summer or any other combination .
Rate the sort of conservation jobs people have been doing for decades in the higher priority list and insist governmnets stop refocusing on peripherals and fads with their fortune driven wizbang budgets that go nowhere . tell me i am wrong !