On Saturday, 26 March 2016 08:00:35 UTC, Alastair wrote:
The Scot, James Watt, got us all burning fossil fuels. Will his descendants lead us all into kicking the habit?
http://grist.org/news/scotland-close...d-power-plant/

It is man's misuse of his resources that is causing all our problems. If we could find a way of working together on things we would all enjoy our lives much more.

It was Lord Shrewsbury(?) and the surveyor/engineer he employed at the start of the Industrial Revolution that got us all burning coal. Without that we would have to have produced iron by burning down forests; or lose future wars to people like Adolf Hitler -as Napoleon was once viewed here.

That was as it turned out a no brainer, not just because of the profits involved. It is generally considered the right decisions that you win a war you get involved in and you can't do that being nice.

Sometimes (as we have so easily seen on this forum) some people won't be persuaded to desist in unwarranted behaviour. When that happens you have to make a decision about how far you are willing to go to sort it out. Most have decided to leave rather than bother.

All it really takes is to switch them out of your life. Often this is impossible. You for instance are not unreasonable and you are as certainly as I can establish not a liar. Such people are beneath contempt and we should refrain from dealing with them. But that seldom happens.

All men are liars, Dawlish for example being in my opinion, particularly venal.