Thoughtidge

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37055507403025967302012-02-16T13:05:41.556ZThoughtidgeThis blog aims to glean new and radical thoughts from anyone on how to deal with the looming climate crisis, what to do about global energy demand and the most difficult topic that no one seems to feel comfortable addressing... populationRobin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-29732974108158405462007-11-01T18:08:00.000Z2007-11-01T18:13:31.131ZThe Climate Macroeconomic Megatrend. A Virtuous Carbon Cycle

Public finally recognises quality of life, safe society and an efficient economy trumps status and prejudice. Accepts this personal social responsibility. Acts, Lobbies and Votes low carbonGovernment takes this electoral confidence signal. Accepts its leadership responsibility. Strongly regulates, incentivises, hypothecates low carbonBusiness sees this clear price signal. Accepts the business

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-119760455358529292007-11-01T17:53:00.000Z2007-11-01T18:08:16.331ZClimate Leadership Responsibilities

Climate is a Human Problem. Technology and economics are the easy parts. We either have the tools to revolve this or we do not. If we do not we are hosed anyway. If we do, the political decisions needed to move the global public and commerce to resolving action is what we should be undertaking right now.The problem I have with this is I also believe the public are the beginning of a virtuous

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-7024707142163990322007-11-01T17:49:00.000Z2007-11-01T17:52:09.927ZShould Politicians Really Get all the Blame?

Or is it time for the public to accept responsibility too. As prot said on his visit from K-PAX, “Don’t blame the politicians for your problems. They are merely a reflection of yourselves.”I guess it's a question of enough of the public accepting the situation and pressing the politicians to act and enough politicians accepting the situation and having the confidence that the public will back

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-83365873919092497882007-11-01T17:46:00.000Z2007-11-01T17:53:40.573ZWealth Denial is Analogous to Carbon Denial

Why do so many of us lie to ourselves and each other about the money in our pocket? According to Ms Dawson, it's because our financial wealth is perceived to reflect our social and mental health. She explains: "It isn't surprising that ‘money' is such an emotive issue, because how we manage our money is a reflection of how well we're seen to be coping with life in general. "We lie about our

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-46919107456660813912007-09-17T17:40:00.001+01:002007-09-17T17:40:34.440+01:00Climate Sceptics, We Need 'Em

First we denied that the globe was warming much faster than it should. Then we denied that it was mankind causing this effect. The latter is now the centrepiece of the denial lobby. So what. The science is overwhelming and therefore a sensible society should take measures to reverse the damage... Or should it?There is a new kind of sceptic emerging that is saying that we should not do anything,

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-23887848430056312632007-09-17T17:22:00.001+01:002007-09-17T17:27:39.993+01:00Who Cares About the Climate Anyway

Following conversations with several friends recently, who are generally good people, but refuse to limit their excess use of carbon, usually with the excuse that they don't really care, I decided to have a deeper think about why they were adopting this classic form of psychological denial.Normally its used as a means to deny its their problem simply by saying they don't care. That way they

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-45285141324718324752007-07-09T15:09:00.000+01:002007-07-09T15:11:18.155+01:00One World Cafe Opens

Wednesday 11th July, One World Cafe, Leigh Street, London WC1H 9EW09:30am - Meeting Opening, informal introductions.09:45am - Steve Burak, Introduction to 'One World' Centre09:50am - Stephen Stretton about the climate change think tank & campaign for stronger targets.10:00am - Prof. David MacKay (Physics Department) - Energy and Climate Change10:15am - Colin Challen MP - Speech & Opening of

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-69736999985500541232007-07-08T15:22:00.000+01:002007-07-08T15:28:25.767+01:00This Climate Thing is a Lot of Fun

Here are some questions that are pressing on my mind. Difficult, fundamental and nearly always ignored. I'll be blogging them one by one as soon as I can. We open the "One World" think shop Wednesday, I start consulting as Energy Officer for the local authority this week, have a Carbon Rationing Action Group to launch on Wednesday for the Maidenhead community and now am being recruited to take

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-47266520988963484292007-07-08T14:53:00.000+01:002007-07-08T14:59:52.270+01:00Offset Someplace Else

Under the hazy hampton sunA flower show has just begunWhile Nero fiddles, people sweatHumid heat then months of wetOur scorching planet future warmMakes Russia's wastes our only farmAmid concern a fashion walkInspires, excites, much more than talkAre Georgie's clothes and David's PlantsA lease of life or funeral dance?A message mixed with hope or fear?Oceans dead are oceans clear.With flights on

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-55725038041518925242007-07-05T17:48:00.000+01:002007-07-05T17:52:44.908+01:00Churchill... Say what you like about him, but here's my favourite quote

"You ask what I have to offer ? I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. THAT is our policy" - Winston Churchill upon his

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-27932931424632029972007-07-05T17:46:00.000+01:002007-07-05T17:47:36.242+01:00Do you believe in God or a god? Then read on

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotentIs he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolentIs he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"Epicurus, circa a very long time before Christ

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-63163499366748176542007-07-05T17:45:00.001+01:002007-07-05T17:45:41.638+01:00What can I say about New York City

...electric, big, culture, ethnic, stink, fast, fashion, rude, fun, home, money, coffee, leading, helpful, lost, win, grid, green, sky, bagel, rainstorm, global, gotham, rubble, heat, subway, efficient, lights, impatient, skating, on off, real, useful, happy, ultimate, the one, mine, everyone's...That is All I can say about New York City

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-81171755894200803442007-07-05T17:35:00.000+01:002007-07-05T17:43:35.364+01:00Are We Really Born With Rights?

Maybe!In life we certainly have duties. Rights support the laws against which mankind and societies can measure both their selfishness and selflessness. But nothing else. We made them up at some point and they are not divine in any way, what is.However, our duty as individuals and as a society is to behave like humans, benevolent beings. In other words, we're on the right track, dont change

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-27737281424734246802007-06-28T16:15:00.000+01:002007-06-29T12:45:12.366+01:00Are You Really That Poor ?

Given the recent media and political coverage on poverty I wanted to look at what being poor in the UK actually means. I just didn’t buy the story that there are that many poor people in the UK. OK so the bottom 10% of the population may struggle to live the full western lifestyle but when I look around me the only truly poor people in the UK seem to be those who have been victims of

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-27904749279782961922007-06-27T11:58:00.000+01:002007-07-08T11:05:55.998+01:00Too Busy ?

How often have you heard this lately: “I’d love to help out but I’m Too Busy right now” Yeah right! But everybody seems to be saying this these days. And their net output does not seem to have increased. And they don’t seem to be experiencing a proportional level of achievement from it. So what does this oft heard statement actually mean? How busy are you really then? You are probably

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-82593637347465943112007-06-27T11:40:00.000+01:002007-06-27T11:41:23.744+01:00Climate. Who’s Fault is it Anyway

The world is in deadlock on dealing with carbon emissions. The developing world see’s the developed as being responsible. The developed world see’s the fast growing developing world as the future culprits. Stale mate! No one trusts the other. No one sees any leaders. So how has this come about. In the developed world, own responsibility has been a historic and continued high carbon growth

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-50857378956851161072007-06-26T23:24:00.000+01:002007-06-26T23:30:18.992+01:00Globalised Mitigation Program

Look here for a rather old idea from a few years back on my first thoughts the problem and some ideas on how to deal with it. Essentialy it asks for a "global response" on dealing with the climate as the only way to succeed/gmp.pdf

Robin Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06824490161434481771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705550740302596730.post-64651374403580227332007-06-26T23:15:00.000+01:002007-06-26T23:16:19.034+01:00Looking for new thinkers

We are looking for people to share ideas around this blog. Why not drop in and leave a comment about something you think needs discussing. Try to make it something new

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