Here are few life-changing options/solutions that could probably cause tremendous effect in changing the course of climate change especially when done in unison (I'm calling this list the "oil economy killer"):
1. Ride a bicycle to work (best when work is at least a kilometer or two away from home);
2. Find a work near your house (in case you don’t have one yet );
3. Walk when going to work (wearing flip-flops can make walking more comfortable) ;
4. Ride on a metro train when going to work or shopping (metro trains generally runs on electricity);
5. Work at home and online (obviously, this option doesn’t even require you to leave home).
I believe that doing the list above in unity - could send gas companies to bankruptcy. Well, who cares about some few greedy oil capitalist anyway?
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those are great ideas. problem is the commute to work if youve seen the traffic here, is many many miles away, hense the hours a day sitting in traffic. these people are driving an avg 15miles to work. transit, very few buses around, also, like 2% use it multiply that, a bus holds only so many bodies, granted get 50 cars off the road for 3 buses is great. move closer to work? not happening, cities are shit companies get land but living space is priced too high or the crime is too high an unsafe.
ReplyDeleteWork from home?
dude, give me a job that I can make 30K us from here. really. not happening huh :(
I do wish it was so.
If these companies built their 50 floor office buildings with 30 floors for working 15 for living in pose condos and 5 for shopping and fitness places all there. THat would do it. Not enough profit tho. Hell id work here for 25 or 30 k
I just read some babe bitching about 60k not being enough, greed does make the world go around:(
awesome topic tho :D
You are living in a developing country with a cultural life-style which promotes having ZILLIONS of kids per family...
ReplyDeleteYou want to stop gloabl warming? Tell EVERY oriental/african/middle-east country to STOP having so many freakin babies! Pure and Simple!
Birth Control, my friend, not bicycles!!!
"If these companies built their 50 floor office buildings with 30 floors for working 15 for living in pose condos and 5 for shopping and fitness places all there. THat would do it." I like this point john. I hope companies will start doing initiatives for such programs soon. :)
ReplyDeleteMsBUrb, zillions is just exaggerated for babies per family.
A family of twelve in a provincial/rural area produces less waste than a person living alone in a highly urbanized city/metropolis. That is your opinion anyway.
I am retired now. My work was 93 miles from home. Thats 186 miles per day on the interstate. I couldn't make it on a bicycle. Flip Flops would not work. When I retired my car ( 1993 ) had 475,808 miles on it.
ReplyDeleteJohn Turner, I guess it's quite relieving that you've already retired from that daunting task of going to work. It's one remarkable & roadworthy car you've got there! Thanks for dropping by. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! I must confess, I have never owned a car, and I have never needed one. I walk or take public transit. Cars were marketed to people, and people believed they needed cars. The fact is, if communities were developed properly, cars and highways would not be necessary. Communities were developed in order the accommodate cars, which were marketed to people who really didn't need them. I don't think anyone realized how much harm it would do to the earth. We need more people who think like you.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the positive response Jo :)
ReplyDeleteI believe that there are really simple and maybe even costless solutions to this problem of climate change and global warming. I believe that starting to think of sensible and viable solutions to stop polluting our ecosystem is a must.
I commend you for resisting technology-for for not owning a car even once. Just imagine the carbon emission avoided because you choose to walk or take public transit.
Hey, hello! Just found your blog.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm still at school and I get there by car. My mother would never let me ride a bicycle, 'cause the city is too crowded with cars.
Anyway, I take shower in only ten minutes, and I recycle everything. That's a beginning, isn't it?
B, yea! that is really a good start :)
ReplyDeleteHere in Hong Kong, public transport is fast, efficient and integrated. I walk to the nearest shops for food shopping [and I live out in the country], and I wouldn't dream of wearing flip-flops [not comfortable over any distance]. And my wife and I cycle 30-45 miles twice a week for recreation. But I don't think your advice goes nearly far enough.
ReplyDeleteI've written on this subject in
http://dennishodgson.blogspot.com/2009/12/failure-of-capitalism.html