| Topic: | Re: brain surgery.. | |
| Posted by: | Stuart Kerr | |
| Date/Time: | 17/01/20 09:08:00 |
There's a few wise and sensible posts on this thread. But lots read like “A Beginner's Guide to Brain Surgery”. Far as I can see, what's needed from us all is a radical re-think. Particularly on the shopping and High Road retail end of the debate. On the basis that old habits die hard as too many cling on for dear life to how things were 30, 40 and sometimes 50 years ago. I looked yesterday at YouTube Pathe film clips of London in both 1900 and 1910. In the first it's all horses and carts/carriages. Even the omnibuses. By 1910 it's the other way round. Just the odd horse-drawn vehicle looking crazily outnumbered and out of place among the new motors. Just over 100 years later and you can see the 'Age of the Car' has peaked! What was once the pinnacle of modern achievement is now slowly (or perhaps it's quickly) throttling us. Obviously the petrol driven engine is doomed because of climate change and pollution. But even when we soon get electric engines our roads and kerbsides will remain vastly over-populated, clogging up our cities and our High Roads (main arteries of life) and choking us to a standstill. Any YouTube film of London today would reveal, in comparison to 1900, that all hell's broken loose. Habits need to change! Looks like, as a community looking to progress or indeed survive, we all need to walk more, cycle more, use public transport more – do everything that's good for us more – and use our cars far less. Particularly as a means to poddle down to the shops... |