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Some of the posts here amuse me because they're based on the idea that everything that exists now somehow must exist forever. The train, or electric car, or bo
by esotericn 7y ago
Some of the posts here amuse me because they're based on the idea that everything that exists now somehow must exist forever.
The train, or electric car, or boat, or other less polluting option from A to B, may well take a lot longer.
That might make certain things impractical. Like, say, me wombling down to Heathrow and taking a weekend in Krakow.
That may well just be the way it has to be. It may be temporary due to technological advancement; it may not.
Just as it may be the case that, in fact, there is no suitable alternative to say, plastic wrap on food. And maybe we'll have to change our diet.
I make no claim that any of the above is true; but if it is; such is life. We will have to adapt.
- riffraff 7y agoThere are indeed a lot of things that were "normal" just a few years back: driving without seat belts, smoking in clubs, having sex with strangers without condoms, eating things that are now restricted due to environmental or health concerns. It is hard to think that cheap flights can be a "dangerous convenience", but they may very well be.
- esotericn 7y agoStuff like the Clean Air Act and equivalent elsewhere. You could just burn whatever in the stove. It's your house, and castle, why not. Turns out that didn't quite work out, so now you can't. There is no replacement for a proper log fire that's quite the same. Life goes on. I'd imagine that the wise amongst the older generations would have a better understanding of this, and also those who grew up poor. Go back 15 years and jetting around Europe on Ryanair flights for the cost of a night out just wasn't a thing. Didn't exist. Completely unimaginable. Now? I can arb my flat in London against a flight and an Airbnb in a country 2000 miles away and have a weekend holiday for free. Something has to give.