Healthy lifestyles would not recommend that you be downdraft or under a modern aircraft. They are fueled for more power with kerosine, that lamp that gave off smoke into the lungs of grandpa while he tried to read the paper. Mostly, we can now turn on the lights and not ignite a flammable substance into our lives.
Although modern industry, in it's efficient way, can some times do this for us. Take, for example, that modern marvel, the jet engine. It is a much more high powered machine, loaded with needs much beyond grandpa's old tin lizzy. We made the error back half a century ago of adding lead to gasoline for all the grandpa's, and charge them extra. Then , decades later, when it was found that lead was killing us, much as the use of lead had killed Romans of high society who only eat fromm leaden bowls.
Good night Caesar. But now for us: science has really been quite quiet about this, as there are many expensive grants that apply to those who find high powered heavy machines off the ground most efficiently, and over the seas. Well, we have a proposal that is sure to create more immediate condemnation from some, such as the kerosine lobby. But what if we created, as was suggested in the economist, a world wide web of efficient high tech high speed trains that the French and Japanese have fully mastered, and network the globe with them.
Filthy air traffic over the bits hard to get the trains to. There are not many excuses for air flight, other than London to New York. Look at your map of the world, and you can see, how the southern route down through India, makes it easy from London to Istanbul, Delhi to Beijing, split in Siberia for those hops down those islands to include Tokyo. Otherwise the train has you working your computer and soon you are under the sea, like the Britain to France channel tunnel, but at the far eastern end of this most land mass, and you are into North America.
Your Amtrack or Bullet Train or trains around France, could be the world's tramway and we could advance. Our skies will clear and we would inhale less spittles of kerosine. We can see that sweet dream, or is it just too obscene. To turn our backs on our habits, even to get clean.
It will not likely happen, but was there in several years ago as some plan reported in the Economist, as a thought on one way to get off the hell hook of air pollution, that may double in a decade, unless we wake up. But, you may ask, many do, who needs blue skies and clean water, and fresh air and all that. We are children of progress, and let it at that.
No, Chairman Now, and President March Hare, we have had it with your coal burning, air polluting progress, and want to get a cleaner route. Anyway hopeful, what is cleaner will make live more possibly serene. Which would be a fine change, from the hat and no cattle that we have all seen. |
