What Book Have You Read Recently? - Page 12

path_of_one · 07-04-2008, 04:18 PM

2050? I think we'll hit some food problems well before that. Heck, much of the world is already in food problems.

Anyhoo, I'm reading Living Buddha, Living Christ. It's fantastic. Love it.

I particularly liked this little meditation:

Breathe in: Think "Calming"
Breathe out: Think "Smiling"
Breathe in: Think "Present moment"
Breathe out: Think "Wonderful moment"

wil · 07-07-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pathless

The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies .... an inevitable lower-energy future. Wake up and smell the post-petroleum age. Immense changes in the way we live are coming whether we prepare for them or not. Start thinking about biking and walking instead of driving, about how we are going to get our food in 2050,...

I don't buy the sky is falling. The problems will create folks with solutions, sure the solutions will create more problems but those will simply create more solutions.

The only way we'll ever use less energy is to knock off 90% of the people. Didja ever see the vertical farm designs? Hydroponic towers at the edge of the great lakes and oceans on which the food is grown on conveyors which rotate up down and around so all get a percentage of the sun, the harvesters won't drive from farm to farm they'll be integrated into the tower nad the crops will come to the harvester, the food won't be transported to the package plant it will be attached to the harvester and then shipped directly to where needed. less energy required less land.

As the water rises and our temperature changes our populations will move to higher ground different ground and with todays technologies and interests we'll be building integrated cities with a lot more underground electric transportation, stores, shopping, housing and business in clumps to reduce travel. Instead of building individual houses, and buildings for specific purposes we'll just build the tunnels for traffic and utilities and then litterally raise the entire area three stories for multipurpose buildings and on top of all of them will be the parks, ball fields, solar collectors and rain collectors and farm lands.

Hot or cold climates to build in we'll be building in domes and testing all the ideas needed to populate other planets in our solar system and the next.

The solutions are at hand, and are hard to impliment utilizing when you try to retrofit existing buildings and towns, but building from scratch we'll be able to build eco friendly envioronments which will be marvels for their day but a hundred years from now they'll look back on them like we do an old star trek's special effects.

No gloom and doom here, the future is so bright we gotta wear shades.

And welcome back around pathless!!

juantoo3 · 07-07-2008, 10:53 PM

I'm in the midst of "the Nature and Properties of Engineering Materials." 1959 edition. Still trying to catch up on some of my backlist of reading...

path_of_one · 07-07-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by wil

The solutions are at hand, and are hard to impliment utilizing when you try to retrofit existing buildings and towns, but building from scratch we'll be able to build eco friendly envioronments which will be marvels for their day but a hundred years from now they'll look back on them like we do an old star trek's special effects.

No gloom and doom here, the future is so bright we gotta wear shades.

And welcome back around pathless!!

The solutions are there- I've seen architects' and engineers' plans. The problem is that governments better start quit spending all their money on wars and the current system and put funds into actually building these things or we'll have only ideas when we get to the point where our current system is totally unsustainable.

The problem, wil, is it takes more than ideas to revolutionize things without a lot of suffering. People are already starving and exploited all over the world. It's been bad for a while. How long do we wait until we change the way we do business as a species? My point is, if we wait too long, the fabric of modern society collapses and we *don't* move forward. We move backward. We can have all the ideas in the world, but if we haven't got the money and organization to implement them, it's useless. All we have to do is peek at the collapse of the Maya to see this. You have to move forward while people aren't starving and rioting. After you get to that point, no one is concerned with building new cities.

Until the US stops trying to shore up the existing system and gets out of "mine, mine, mine"- it's unlikely anything new and innovative will happen.

mee · 07-22-2008, 09:19 AM

half way through my latest book , it is a really good book that i cannot seem to put down.
it is the latest book that i have just got from the convention of Jehovahs witnesses.
it is called

KEEP YOURSELVES IN GODS LOVE. and it is a wonderful provision for mee from the most high JEHOVAH .

and i just love it

17th Angel · 07-22-2008, 10:15 AM

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and i just love it

Why? How does it appeal to you?

17th Angel · 07-22-2008, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by path_of_one

2050? I think we'll hit some food problems well before that. Heck, much of the world is already in food problems.

Average of 24,000 people die per day from hunger/starvation food shortage related events..... If that isn't a problem I don't what is... Yet is suprising how many of us do f a..... The supermarkets raise their prices yet tell you about fair trade to those poor little farmers..... And.. Nm lol I'll shut up.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 07-22-2008, 08:13 PM

Getting back on topic, I'm reading Down Among the Dead Men by Simon R. Green (it takes place in his Hawk & Fisher universe.) I'm still starting it (relatively) so I can't say much other than there's a mystery concerning the disappearance of an entire fortress full of soldiers, horses and the like.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

mee · 07-23-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

Why? How does it appeal to you?

1 john 5;19 ...

Francis king · 07-23-2008, 01:21 PM

I am currently reading Irvine Welsh's "Crime"... I lve Irvine Welsh... and I have to say, his writing style is getting better... which doesn't happen often with writers...

I am also reading and writing my own novel... which is pretty damn fine...

greymare · 07-24-2008, 08:32 AM

just read "the Secret"
and now Im reading "The Seventh Son" by Orson Scot Card
as recommended by a friend. Both good.

Vajradhara · 07-25-2008, 06:38 AM

Namaste all,

i'm finishing up The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Green and i just recently completed The Secret Power Within by Chuck Norris.

both are good books in very different categories

metta,

~v

greymare · 07-25-2008, 09:26 AM

gotta love the ChuckNorris. LOL
hes a legend.

Dream · 07-25-2008, 08:53 PM

Yeah, Orson Scott Card's got some real home runs. Somehow he bought green M&M's before anybody else.

17th Angel · 07-26-2008, 12:28 AM

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gotta love the ChuckNorris. LOL
hes a legend.

Chuck norris once killed a man by just looking at him..... A legened indeed.. But I couldn't endure reading his self gloryifing crap... Then again I can't endure reading any book lol.... I think there should be a warning message though on any works written by chuck norris "Warning... This book may cause you to drop freaking dead from the norris's shear awesomeness...." Did you know Chuck Norris also once saved a three year old girl from HIV positive, radioactive sharks.... Seven of them... One surivived fatally wounded... He died three days later... Did you also know that Chuck norris created the world in four days?