My Life on this planet.

Bill Gates Bill Gates . Such an authority. He discusses e.g. climate change as I do and he is interviewed while I am losing friends. But, as my mind goes on and on, turning round in circles, I too must write this down so my brain concentrate on something and to avoid I become mad. And yes, it is also important that people show that they agree with investments away from fossil fuels to prevent those who are opposed have the loudest voice and win the argument. Thus, I recognise Mr Gates has major opposition from among others: those who oppose vaccination (in which he plays an important role) and deny climate change is real as for many the consequences are too big to accept while they often don't want to pay for it and think that reinvesting in old solutions is cheaper and more profitable while building a new nuclear plant costs billions of euros  although smaller local units may be possible and for space travel on condition we re-use space shuttles; those who don't mind climate ...

Huge cost in lives It is estimated that almost a billion (to visualise this: 1,000,000,000) animals died during Australia's bushfires that are still raging and some say trillions (1,000,000,000,000) may die. Elsewhere thousands of camels are shot because they become a pest as even these animals, although specifically adapted to live in desert conditions where water is scares, find it hard to survive Australia's major drought and thus they compete with humans for water in this huge country with only about 25 million humans. Also last year animals were shot , including wild horses, because it was too dry and thus these are mercy killings. Still, it is hard to deny the situation in Australia is exceptional. Similar in California , Brazil and other places where it stopped raining and fires burned while elsewhere it rains too much , both leading to death and destruction. Many of these events happen as climate change scientists prophesied . However, many powerful people still...

In the  Intelligencer , a NY magazine, an article describes how climate change may be much worse than until now anticipated although I remember scientists discussing many of these topics before. But yes, troubles may happen much earlier than anticipated, even during the lifespan of those responsible. A few months ago on the Flemish radio, a book about the consequences of climate change and what will happen if we don't act was discussed. Part of the discussion was that the book is too extreme and thus people will not act when they think climate change can't be stopped. But the counter-argument was that talk about it in moderate wording and people will think we don't need to act while actions are needed to prevent the worse case scenario becomes reality. Whatever, too little is done at present to prevent the predicted climate change. The book discusses what can happen if the temperature increases at a maximum of 8°C. One person thinks the authors exaggerate. Indeed, it...