h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great, I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time

Hopefully , though I worry slightly about PSG, as he's the only non-rambler out of the seven of us and I'm sure the vertigo won't help

Don't worry, he's in , he'll follow you blind

I've only managed to get him to walk three miles at a time

Askme, and I'd say that's enough if you have to go the same distance back
Unc, I'm going to now, see you soon, goodnight

For me, 12 miles is an average length ramble.

Went to bed myself, keep getting a headache , probably too much revision. Ah well, not much left to do , though no hootoo tomorrow anyway

Yes

Now what will I do the whole day tomorrow I wonder

It'll be revising air pollution tomorrow with teaching the brownies how to identify the main insect orders in the evening

Oh, air pollution - it's been a no. 1 topic here recently, because of the high concentration of very small dust particles in the air in cities.

The PM10 and the PM2.5, cause about 10,000 deaths annually in the UK. Learnt how even taking a shower is dangerous in this module , especially shower cubicles.

However, environmental science isn't exactly an uplifting subject, it's all a bit of a mess , but at least the ozone hole's finally getting round to closing up

It can't matter much, if the dust concentration is so high that the sunrays can't penetrate it anyway ?

From a global warming perspective? The particles are probably stopping us heat up too much at the moment, but in all honesty I doubt the world will warm much in the near future. More of a problem is, well, other aspects of climate change, the PM10, the fact if the population rises at it's current rate then by 2012 it's estimated there won't be enough resources, that species ar going extinct at an astonishig rate, that evolution due to climate change is already happening and at an astonishing rate, that the seas have been overfished to critical levels, habitat loss has meant that many of the remaining habitats have become too small to support many species, that oak trees are in danger of going the same way as the elms..

eek, I could go on for ages

Trouble with envirnmental science is that it's impossible to prove anything, so people tend to choose to ignore it.

For every thesis there's one telling the exact contrary,both arguments are usually quite convincing, so normal people can just choose what suits them most.

Too right . There are two theories on everything (depending on where people's interests lie usually), but the simple fact is that the climate is changing, that species are dissappearing, that the soils are degrading and so on, whatever reason people choose to believe is the concequence. Another problem with the environment is that pollutants don't neatly confine themselves within an country's bouanderies, any acton has to be done on a global scale or it's success will be minimal, and I can't see that happening in the near future.

Yes, you're right of course, it should be a global thing, but most governments are only interested in making money, not in investing it, they fear they'll lose too much money

Plus governments are there for s short term, so they make policies that please, rather ones that are sustainable in the long term (but will take time for a possitive affect to be seen)

Well, time for dinner

Enjoy

I did , fortunately university has forced me to learn to cook

It wasn't university which made me learn to cook, I never did when I was single and I'm pretty sure I will stop immediately once I was single again

Oh, I like cooking, and I like the results better . Though I'm going to have to teach PSG some of the basics, judging by the last time he attempted to fry an egg