Do we care about the enviroment !!! ????

Charles13 said:
I was watching the news and a representative from the band that owns both the rail line and the port in Churchill Manitoba was saying how the deep water port has less traffic now than it did 100 years ago?
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Some more thoughts Companies today don't have much parts on the shelves .In storage
And don't want to have values in transit The Bean Counters are there
VOLVO used to have just in time production . The truck was not allowed to unload other than between certain times on the clock.
parts Going straight into the assembly line. Preferred trucks before railroad.
What happens if an important part cannot be delivered as it did when a fire happened in the shop manufacturing the wiring looms.
Distance something like 600 km only
Other parts kept coming but the assembly line had to be stopped .It was impossible to assemble cars and put in the wiring later
Is there plan B ..mostly not
Car bodies was hauled out on the field . Parts stashing somewhere who knows where.
Slowly getting things moving shipping wiring looms in Taxis the 600 km.

Back then Automatics gearboxes could be bought from Japan But it was to much values tied up on the boat

So for the sake of reasoning Say you have wiring looms on the Cargo ship expected shipping time 2 months .
In the Northwest passage northerly wind ships gets locked in in Pack Ice ..3 Weeks ..3 months .... 6 months
Production halts ..What is the plan B ?

I am not familiar with how it is in Canada .. But not many managers here would take the risk be dependent on shipping deliveries in winter
No way and No how perhaps there can be some plan making it happen .But as I mentioned
Say the hard winter is more rare It is likely still come .That does not help the manufacturer every 5 years his production is halted if so.
3 months ..Game Over.

Being old we know that " King Bore " rules traffic can be stopped.. shipping ... aero planes can be stopped. People died every winter It is not so common now with phones But dont mess with the King.. Don't mess with him ..Pretend he is not in Charge.
 
Living inside the great barrier reef, we have seen, been watching and aware of the devastation of the repetition of coral bleaching for a number of years.
Our giov't has thrown Penny's towards research and any possible solutions put forward.

The saddest thing is the resistance to changes in attitude and against acceptance that global warming might b man made.

Far better to change a system in the belief that it could avert the tipping point into a Runaway effect and b wrong, than b right and watch the ecosystem collapse because we didn't like Al Gore

But these people are only scientists, what do they know

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251013040325.htm
 
Over 20 years ago before building my house I would talk to builders / contractors about energy saving ideas. If I said doing so and so would save energy they would get a far away look as if they were thinking '' F***ing tree hugger. I soon learned that by substituting the word Money for energy they were more receptive to the idea . Sadly over 20 years later I don't think that attitude has changed much.
 
Japan warns Vietnam over Hanoi petrol motorbike ban:
Japan has stepped in to warn Vietnam that its looming ban on petrol motorbikes could cost thousands of jobs and hit Japanese manufacturers hard, with Honda, the country’s biggest bike brand, apparently right in the firing line.

According to documents seen by Reuters, Japan’s embassy in Hanoi wrote to Vietnamese authorities urging them to rethink the abrupt timeline for the ban. The message was clear: rushing to outlaw petrol bikes by mid-2026 in central Hanoi could devastate supporting industries — from dealerships to parts suppliers — and trigger a domino effect across the country’s massive two-wheeler market.

Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, announced the measure in July as part of a push to tackle Hanoi’s choking air pollution. The government also plans wider restrictions from 2028, potentially rolling them out to other major cities. Japan’s letter reportedly called for a more “appropriate roadmap” with a phased rollout to give the industry time to adapt to electrification and/or alternative fuels.

The scale of what’s at stake is enormous. Vietnam’s two-wheeler market is one of the biggest on Earth, worth an estimated $4.6 billion, with registered motorbikes nearly matching 80 per cent of its 100 million-strong population. Honda alone controls around 80 per cent of that market, selling 2.6 million bikes last year. Its name is so synonymous with motorbikes that the word “Honda” is colloquially used in place of “bike” in Vietnamese.

In July, Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki, via an industry group, sent their own warning to Hanoi. They cautioned that the ban could lead to “production interruptions and the risk of bankruptcy” for suppliers, dealers, and parts makers, affecting hundreds of thousands of jobs. They’ve asked for at least two to three years of preparation to adjust production and build a proper charging network.

https://www.visordown.com/news/honda-risk-japan-warns-vietnam-over-hanoi-petrol-motorbike-ban
 
Got round to watching this.

Interesting. No mention of the consolidation of wealth coupled with less wages, contributing to both parents having to work and house prices rising to the point, is/has Priced people out of having children.

Between 33.40 and 36.14, his assesment has proved to b right, unfortunately the time it took was not foreseen.
 
gggGary said:
If too many people is the problem, the solution is at hand?
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Got round to watching this.

Interesting. No mention of the consolidation of wealth coupled with less wages, contributing to both parents having to work and house prices rising to the point, is/has Priced people out of having children.

Between 33.40 and 36.14, his assesment has proved to b right, unfortunately the time it took was not foreseen.
 
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