As Matt asked the Davos Question like he did,

I answered with a general slogan.

Now Matt answered the question his way and said also:

I’d really like to read a paper where someone took a bunch of important issues and looked at the potential impact a single person could make on each issue.

More than 3 decades ago I told (all man I could reach this days) nearly the same arguments that today brings Mr. ex Vice-President A. Gore a Nobel Prise for his film about global warming.

Every knows the ice in the oceans shrinks, and ice bears will lost their land,
but who thinks about the used volume of ice (XXX miles³ which will be blank water soon), in which phytoplankton generates the first steps to feed all life above? Who discusses the influences of that, to over fished fish populations?

More heavy earthquakes caused by global warming, never heard about?

The end of last ice age the northern parts of Europe raised 900 yards while the ice melt.
How many yards will Greenland rise, while the glaciers there becomes water?
And will a earthquake one of the consequences when the large lake in between the glaciers find its way down to the ocean? Will be the large amount of freshwater cut the salt% in this ocean large enough to slow down or stop the Golf stream?

I think have some new solutions for some old problems of this world,
where I can find ears with brains behind, which can imagine?

Today more square miles desert are human made than on nature based.
And much of those bottom paid the price for human culture, as megalomania overcomes the mighties of the past (Great Wall, Pyramids).

The diluvian/Flood of the Bible may be the result of beginning copper age. It’s smelting needs for hundreds of years all the trees in the northern mountains where the 3 rivers comes from.

My impact till today is near zero, because of a lack of money, publicity and power. Without the lever of money and as a no one it needs a real non linear wave human to make an impact on the worlds problems.

So the world seems to me as a place, where uninspired bankers and politicians looking after a practicable way to lead the money and credit in their direction, while announcing quick and intellingent help to every problem media took note.

Greetings Karl

http://www.makeawishonline.net

Anything in moderation seems to be ok, except smoking.

It’s on the things To Do and not To Quit

:p

I think I’ll quit my job and buy a box of Ready Brek.

Its REALLY hard to eat 5 servings of fruit or vegetables a day (for me anyway). I have managed to quit smoking and excercise, and I can usually limit my drinks to a few.

Breakfast is usually cereal or a protein bar, then lunch is usually a sandwich. I can occasionally get a side of fruit or veggies, then I almost always have at least one large side of veggies for dinner.

Most days its probably just 1 side per day. One thing I have tried to add to help is getting all natural fruit drinks (there is a great brand called naked) which can count as 1 or 2 sides. They are expensive, like $3-$4 per bottle for the good stuff, but the health benefits are almost certainly worth it.

That generally just gets you into long discussions that get you nowhere closer to prevention. In most cases (not all) things have to go wrong before enough people agree that a solution is required.

But that doesn’t mean prevention should not be tried.

Prevention through education is a nice idea and I think is already in place more than you think. I moved to Brazil 6 years ago and am integrated enough to understand and see problems that I hardly saw in the Netherlands. The simple fact that 99.99% of the population in the Netherlands can read prevents a lot of problems. In Brazil the percentage of people that don’t know how to read or write is so big that you notice simple problems occur that don’t happen in countries where everybody knows how to read and write.

So education definitely helps a lot in prevention.

However, problems that develop so slow they take more than a generation to become visible, and then more than the next generation to visibly worsen, can not really be prevented by education. The development is so slow that it either won’t matter for you during your life time, or it is one of the main probems in your life time. Polution problems are an example of that. Global Warming ( I refuse to call it Global Climate Change) is the ultimate problem I think. And the weirdest (but in reality very logical) side of the solution to Global Warming is that the only reason the whole world is now interested in solving this problem,.... High Oil Prices!