Posts by Lilith __
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I imagine a Gary Larson drawing of alien scientists viewing post global-climate-change Earth and crossing "Big brains" off their list of "Good ideas".
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When I lived in Woolston by the railway line I would hear the coal trains rumbling past to Lyttelton, then rattling back empty. I used to ponder how peculiar it was to dig up bits of ground on the West Coast and load them on a train going across the island (and THROUGH a mountain), then load them on a ship and send them for vast distances across the ocean to India and China. How is that even viable?!
Without the discovery of fossil fuels, we wouldn’t have had the Industrial Revolution and the vast technological innovations that followed it. Fossil-fuel energy is so cheap to extract; it’s hard for us to grasp that the true cost is deferred. And not only deferred, but distributed freely: through the air and water that recognise no national boundaries. Are we grown-up enough to work together to save ourselves?
The ETS is clearly not ideal even if all countries use it. Arrrgh.
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David, you are an absolute treasure! Please feed us more stories.
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Home on the Range
Been too cold for me to be out photographing, lately. But I can give you this photo from winter house hunting.
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Capture: Garden of Arcane Delights, in reply to JacksonP,
extension tube
It's what you do with it, my friend.
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Thanks for continuing to post about Chch, Russell. And good to see that Piko continues to be outstanding.
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On the subject of Gap Filler, anyone who hasn't seen the wonderful documentary about it and other transitional projects, it's still available On Demand.
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Hard News: Back in Christchurch, in reply to Rob Stowell,
after 5 years, we need to completely reconsider the ‘blueprint’. any business would do this: is it still what we want? what we need? what is best achievable? The only reason this isn’t happening is because there are egos too big to admit ever getting anything wrong.
The Blueprint was ridiculous 5 years ago and even more ridiculous now. The CBD redevelopment needs to be driven by the locals to do the things we need. We all said this at the time, here on PAS.
I find it unbearably depressing that the govt is still forcing their half-assed rush-job Plan on a city that doesn't want it. And that in the middle of a housing crisis the govt is happy to pour hundreds of millions into a convention centre and a stadium that will never break even, but that same government refuses to build social housing.
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Southerly: Høstens Vemod, in reply to Hilary Stace,
truffles take about 10 years to grow and I think you need a pig to dig them up
I've never had this problem with chocolate truffles, ever.
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Unconfirmed sighting of David Haywood in the field.
