Future life plans and some sad news.
Good Morning everyone,
Yesterday was a very busy day again. I had a day with my girl. She had no work again, due to her boss being ill. So we did some shopping, then went for a drive. We took the camera as she has to do a landscape painting for Art at school. She did very well, but hasn't decided what she will actually paint. I thought her composition skills were excellent.
Did anyone catch the ABC last night? They played the documentary called 'The Great Global Warming Swindle.' Which basically casts doubt on whether the increase of human caused CO2 is the cause of global warming or is it the opposite ie. it causes global cooling, or in fact is it the sun that does it. I thought that the debate was very well handle by Tony Jones, the head of Lateline. Though I do wish that Robin Williams, the ABC science journalist and reporter should remember that he simply a reporter and not an expert, and keep his mouth shut when the actual experts are talking. The audience questions though were weird. One guy, was a student but was linking scientific method to sex, drugs and rock n roll! There were also numerous people within the audience determined to argue with the guy who was formerly from BHP but is now with the World Wildlife Fund, about population control, eugenics and even Nazism. I understand that they were trying discredit the WWF by doing this, but I am confused as to what it had to do with a debate on the role of whether humans are causing global warming or not!
For me, the way forward in the short term is the need to develope clean coal energy, and in the long term substantial Governmental and private investment increases in energy coming from sustainable sources such as hot rock/thermal energy creation, solar, wind and waves. I read in the alternative living magazine 'Grassroots' a suggestion by a reader, that each electricity pylon and pole be fitted with solar panels that tap straight into the grid system. What a great idea to use existing infrastructure like that. I am a regular reader of 'Grassroots' , cause one day I am going to have my little patch of paradise and be as sustainable in my living as I can.
I grew up on a farm where we had no rubbish collection and had to separate the rubbish into papers (which were burnt), glass (which was either re-used or put through mulcher and used as mulch on the garden) and tins which were put in our own private dump way down the back of our 1000 acre farm. Any food scraps either went to the dogs or the chooks. We had our own eggs, milk from 2 house cows (which I milked before school) and dad got the mobile butcher in to carve up a killer beast every now and again so we had our own meat as well. Some years we had a vege garden but farm work took up so much time, that it wasn't a priority. But as neighbours had market gardens you could buy fresh veges easily and cheaply. So all in all I would be walking into my sustainable life with my eyes wide open. I would never raise my own meat sources now though. I have become too much of a city girl in that respect, to ever kill a animal myself!
We received some very sad news yesterday. A boy that my eldest boy played soccer and futsal with, has had a bad accident that has left him paralyzed from the neck downwards. What an awful thing to happen to anyone, let alone a 16 year old boy. He fell hard off his push bike and landed head first, and was not wearing a helmet. This particular boy is a very energetic and easily frustrated young man and he would be finding it very hard being unable to move. I think that long term prognosis is that he may walk again, but things aren't going well, as everytime they help him sit up his blood pressure falls and he blacks out. His poor mum must be beside herself, though she is a nurse and that must help her at least by being able to understand what is going on. She is a single mum though and it must be hard finanancially for them at the moment. He was flown to Townsville when it happened, and was in an induced coma for a while until the swelling went down. He is now in Brisbane for re-hab.
Brisbane is over 2000kms away, and it must be costly for her, especially as they rely on her income to live. I am going to try and see if we can organise some fund raising for the boy and his family through a raffle with soccer etc. This kid was very fit, and was also a champion boxer and kick boxer. But since this has happen he has lost 12 kilos. Being fit has helped him though, as his muscles were very strong. Railings are being fitted to the house for when he eventually comes home, I think the government supplies these, but I am not sure. This whole business made me want to hug my own kids extra hard.
Anyway, nice to chat. But it is PAYDAY!! and I need to go organise the weekly shop. Thanks for dropping by and having a read. Bye from Jo.