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Back in Nanaimo
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The Bronze Age of (not so Blissful) Complacency
We are no longer golden. Intuitively we know that we can’t have limitless growth on a limited sized planet; and, if we don’t limit our growth, the planet will limit it for us – in a way that will not be pleasant. Destructive storms, flooding, forest fires etc. are indicators that we are pushing the…
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The Golden Age of Blissful Ignorance
I was lucky enough to be brought up in the Golden Age of Blissful Ignorance, only occasionally followed by ‘oops’; where for a time even medical doctors smoked in their offices until – ‘oops’, In 1972 the cost of gas was 36 cents a gallon; we all drove gas guzzling cars and no one had…
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Plug-in Hybrids
Our condo/strata is looking at adding infrastructure for EV charging. The following are some of thoughts I sent out to other owners. Some trivia: 15 trillion (15,000,000,000,000) litres of oil are consumed on the planet per day. There are 1.4 billion cars on the planet, 3.9 million in Canada. The energy cost to manufacture a…
WR Foster 