You would feel at home in our utility. We seem to collect saddles, I'm sure we have the saddle, bridle and reins of every horse we ever owned, over 35 years that's a lot. MRsMC says not and it just feels like that, I'm not convinced.
Gig went well and a good drive home, however considering my carb intake today did not exceed 8 grams of carbs and only a small glass of red at the gig my pet Dracula offered me a 6 this does not bode well for the morning.
@gennepher your perception of a storm brewing in my paintings is correct, I was not sure I had captured that atmosphere, thank you.
Reading the news and the plans for getting all diesel, petrol and hybrid vehicles off the road in this decade and a statement by some experts saying the only real solution is to remove the need for people to stop driving in the first place. I got thinking about how long will we be able to carry on doing these gigs? The miles we do travelling the kit we carry at the moment the only way it can be done is to drive. The vast majority of gigs we do are in rural locations, no signs of charging points, no public transport, If technology and infrastructure don't progress quickly I can see us returning to Victorian living and only the wealthy can travel. Maybe all those saddles we have will come in handy
With the above thought
@jjraak we better get that road trip in fast, no point waiting for the ZA as I'm not sure an electric car will go the distance, assuming I can afford one.
I think you encapsulate most people's fears re the rather wishful thinking without the thought to how it affects everyday life in our headlong rush to do "something" about CC.
there is a thread about the good chance the government will begin limiting meat in our diet via institutions.. And then via raised taxes, on meat and farmers to 'persuade' us all to eat less meat and essentially go vegetarian in time.
All very well and good, until you begin thinking, what if they are wrong, and it didn't help CC. OR more likely it didn't help it enough.
Yet by then many if not most farmers and that way of life here in the UK, may well be gone
Who in their right mind is going to go through all the trouble of keeping farm animals if no one buys the product anymore, or there's no enough profit in it to keep going... Mining ring a bell.?
Now tell me what happens to those animals.
Will our grandchildren children be going to zoos to see cows and sheep because they are so rare.
And this race towards Frankenstein foods.. non meat oroducts grown in labs, with a concoction of chemicals and flavouring untested, yet now being sold as FOOD will have to become the norm if it's all that's on offer
Unintended consequence of well intentioned idea, WITHOUT the thought of how it could impact on the medium, long term and on other aspects of society... And with regards meat, diets
Consider that so many years ago the "Experts" told us fats are bad.. and yet oh so many millions are now falling sick because that advise was SO wrong.
Think the problem through, then think the solution through. Is surely the right way.
Are we really better off upgrading our throw away society to now include all the vehicles ever made, vehicles whose carbon footprint in raw material factories, transportation around the globe has already been paid... so we can make new ones, that have their own carbon footprint to add to the ones we have ALREADY paid for in full, to now add to the atmosphere we are so desperate to save.
This obsession with shiny new things driven by the very governments who seek to be the answer to our CC woes, baffles me.
Not saying we shouldn't take actions, just I'd just like it to be WITH ALL the Pros AND the cons discussed, rather then this Facebook politics driving decisions
Where those who shout the loudest get heard.
And if nothing else, the referendum showed that THAT is NOT public opinion.
Worth thinking about now, while we still have a choice..
As they say in adverts (and for us it's animals and a whole way of life, based on dubious reasonings..lots of BIG money in lab based food).. When it's gone it's gone
