Almost all of these advances you mention were funded by the arms trade...or as a direct result of war. Vast amounts of money are poured into research during times of unrest to aid a countries war effort... and out of that comes the new technology that we now use in our daily lives... personaly i would rather not have satelite navigation to get me to the end of the street if it meant a world of peace but sadly i think we are on a rollercoaster ride to destruction.... nothing short of a global disaster will change the path we are on now.
Quite so but it would be a bit silly to abandon all these advances rather than trying to find sustainable ways to continue them ... I don't particularly fancy dying of gangrene while digging potatoes on my subsistence farm... All we need is a little imagination and moral fibre... Why, I'm going to eat cornflakes and go for a six mile run RIGHT NOW!
I agree that we will have to agree to disagree here. I was watching Steve Irwin on TV this-morning though, and he made an interesting comment about birds and how they slow or stop breeding when there are times of food or water shortages. They don't continue to breed and scavange every last resource before moving on to pastures greener and doing the same again...
Well this started off as a thread about having to queue for petrol, moved by way of a bit of mud-slinging through a somewhat half-arsed debate on transport policy into one on globalisation, and ended up with the conclusion that we should all evolve into birds. Long live the internet!
Pabs My Darling But the good book said "Go forth and multiply" A lot of folk believe in God and do what he says
