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How we imagine
Imagine having a chilled beer on a hot afternoon. Imagine falling off a cliff. Which was more real? For me the beer was. When you imagine something it feels like you draw on your cumulated experience of that thing. If … Continue reading
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Why the Bustard
The blog is called the Bustard after the majestic Great Bustard found, increasingly rarely, on the great plains of Hungary. A victim of intensive farming and development, the Bustard is as good a symbol as any of nature’s struggle against … Continue reading
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Unhunching
Yesterday someone said to me: “Environmentalism is dead. The green movement has failed. Climate change is a technical problem and the solution to it is technological.” There was something I didn’t like about that. Some of my objection is emotional. … Continue reading
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We should get ready now for less oil
The Long Emergency by James Kunstler shows how American society will undergo upheaval as oil runs out. Suburbia will no longer be viable. When thinking about the best way to prepare for life with less or no oil, I was … Continue reading
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The carbon earprint of chainsaws
Yesterday a chap came and took down a dead tree. It was a golden rubinia and there’s a bug getting them. It took two chaps about 1 1/2 hrs work and cost £160. I wondered what it would have cost … Continue reading
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