I find this report from BBC news very interesting on two counts.
Firstly, it highlights the BBC’s inept ability to report news. I know that this is a minor point, but both sides of the coin should be highlighted when reporting. Such as the difference between consumers wanting greener PCs and consumers actually paying £64 - £108 more for a PC because it’s an environmentally friendly one.
Which leads to my second point. Everyone agrees (except stupid white men) that we are suffering from a global climate change crisis which we must act upon to sort out. One of the ways of reducing CO2 emissions would be to have more wind farms and become less reliant on fossil fuel technology. So we want wind farms… Oh, unless they are built anywhere near where these people live. If one of the fields near us were building wind farms I might put up with it, but would my neighbours? As one of the most respected men of our time once said: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” - Agent K
The same issue applies to these environmentally friendly, but more expensive PCs. Another options of course, would be if the PC manufacturers gave us no option but to buy these PCs - but that will not happen!
Last night I watched a little TV (I think it was called Tank Man) on the Chinese governments hush-hush attitude towards media, and the imprisonment of those that break these rules.
I have a beast of an assignment due by Thursday, and I’ve barely started it… But despite all this I’ve been surfing the interweb this morning, nothing specific just wasting time. But I found this and this and it really makes me want to take some action. Grrrrrr.
Maybe I’ll just put a little green box in the top right hand side of this page and have a look at this.
The recent attempt by Fossett to fly the longest distance ever in an “aerial vehicle”, has got me thinking. Why do we still care about this. For hundreds of years man has been testing the extreems to which they can push the technology that they have built and as my Dad fondly recalls following the likes of Cambell, etc, even now I still think that what they did was cool.
But should I care about modern day attempts. It is very hard to get excited these days, as we have come to terms with the ease that technology can be pushed. Now the average family car can easily out perform say a Jag from the 60s (see last seasons Top Gear). I truely beleive that the golden age of innovation is on the way out, and that we are heading towards mass-produced innovation instead. Which is sad.
So do I care… nope. But I really should look around and see what I do care about. This stuff matters… Maybe Ellen MacArther has the answer?!?
