This is a Cat Gentleman. What a world to produce such a creature. The picture makes me think we have the best of all possible worlds, right here. I have, also, seen pictures, which show me we have the worst of all possible worlds, at the same time, right here. I am beginning to think some of us are very lucky to see some of the good things life has to offer. So, I show you this Cat Gentleman.
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- Last month China sold more Hybrid and Electric vehicles than Gas guzzlers. I don’t want to move to China, but I’m just saying…
- I read the Swedes have put to sea several large tankers which run on ‘Green Methanal’ which cuts greenhouse gasses dramatically..if the shipping industry were to convert to such fuel…world carbon emissions would be cut by 5%…but the Luddites won’t have it.. I’m not moving to Sweden…But I’m just saying.
- I read that Private Jets are a big source of air pollution…(1% of the world’s population creates 50% of the world’s aviation greenhouse gasses.) When I win the lotto I promise I will not buy a private jet…as I was going to do, before I read about their pollution problems. …just want the Luck Gods to know. (However, I will upgrade to Business from Economy…I should get something for my long awaited winnings).
- I’ve decided to never ever again look at, or ‘go on’ X….sometimes you have to take a stand on where you sit…(Question: If everybody stood where they sat, would Elon still be one of the richest people on earth? ,,,Just asking. (Of course, if they also chose not to sit in his cars that might knock him down a billion or two.)
- Another reading: The equivalent of the size South America is now used to grow crops, and the equivalent of Africa is used to graze animals. Combined, this is more of the world’s surface than is occupied by forests and more than 10 times as much land as is occupied by all human settlement. And according to the World Resources Institute, we may need to add nearly two Indias to the world’s existing farmland to meet food needs in the second half of this century. But adding that farmland means cutting down forests, which store carbon, in order to graze more animals, which produce carbon. …Where is all this going? and do we have to build new continents to handle all this? Just wondering.
- …and then: If food waste were a country it would be somewhere around the world’s third or fourth biggest emitter of Carbon (Bigger than private jets) You don’t see me wasting food. Finally, I’m good for something.
- So. There is all of the above…and more… and it looks like we are going to do nothing about it but roast in the lengthening summers and scorching heat…Remember the ‘Ozone Hole’? And how it was going to be the end of everything? We fixed that didn’t we? We got our act together and stopped using some kinds of aerosol cans – and we fixed it and saved the world from the ever increasing Ozone Hole! Why can’t we just take on all this carbon emission stuff like we did the Ozone Hole threat?…Like we took on the Russkies in the Space Race, Like we took on The Nazis and the Japanese in the war. Just asking.
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Quotes:
- “God is good. Therefore, the universe that God chose to exist is the best of all possible worlds.” -Gottfried Leibniz, a polymath, “The Monadology”, 1710, in which was coined the phrase:”…best of all possible worlds”
- “Cause there’s still a lotta drinks that I ain’t drunk/
Lots of pretty thoughts that I ain’t thunk, oh yeah/
Lord there’s still so many lonely girls/
In this best of all possible worlds” -Kris Kristofferson,”The Best of All Possible Worlds”, song, 1970 - “Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.” -Ray Bradbury, (1920-2012) Science Fiction Writer extraordinaire (“Fahrenheit 451″), Staunch believer in this is ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds”
That’s all I can take for the week…and a fond “Hello” to Mrs. Calabash, Krishna, and Clynes – wherever you are.
