Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

You Cannot Avoid Polluted Air

If you want healthy lungs don't take up running or vigorous exercise. Perhaps it is better to head for the country and stay away from smokers. Your body needs clean air in order to stay healthy.

Living in cities is a no, no. If you live in London you will already have lung damage. Spending just 48 minutes there is equivalent to smoking a cigarette. It is not only cigarette smoke that is troublesome. Fumes from cars and diesel buses is something you can't avoid.

Heading indoors is a waste of time. Pollution condenses down into corridors, tunnels and homes. Toxins are more than double that of the external environment. Plants help to clear the air. Don't use artificial air fresheners. Even the television pumps out volatile organic compounds (VOC).

Unfortunately there is not a lot we can do in the modern world to avoid toxins. It's everywhere. Doing exercise will make the body take in more pollutants. Taking a holiday in the country is no answer - ozone from cities ends up there.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Australians Need Space

Australians like space. The major cities are relatively sparsely populated by world standards yet we still try to shun them to avoid people. Perhaps we are spoiled for space. Australia is the most sparsely populated country after Mongolia. Yes that is a fact. We do not hold the record. Though many still claim it.

Another issue is - What is a city? For world records this can be a problem. An "average" Chinese city would have more people than the whole of Australia. Julia Gillard is aiming to keep our cities small in the near future. But is this still possible in a world seemingly full of refugees? Time will tell if East Timor even accepts the Australian offer of money for making that country the regional refugee processing center.

People don't like things to change too fast. With Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister things seemed to be moving too quickly. He had so much planned and he ignored what most people wanted. Maybe there is a lesson in that for the leader of the Opposition. Voters wanted something done about the apparent flood of refugees and what is would mean for future population density. Julia Gillard has risen to the call and adopted a policy similar to John Howard. If Timor adopts the policy it will give some breathing space to Australians who are quite shocked to find people from strange cultures walking down their street. Australia is a Caucasian land, at the moment. It has taken two centuries for Chinese to be accepted as Ocker Aussies. Australians not only need space. Time is required as well.
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Monday, May 17, 2010

European Names Were Not Forced on Aboriginals

Aboriginals are barking up the wrong tree. Saying that White invaders forced name tags on them is a bit rich. Aboriginals gladly accepted European style names. An Australian who is 80 percent white taking an Aboriginal name is ridiculous, considering many do not speak any native tongue. They cannot opt out of registration of births. It is against the law.

Another thing is Aboriginals calling themselves a group of nations like the nation tribes of North America. Native Australians were spread across the land in very small tribes. They had no concept of federated nations. Communication only existed between neighboring tribes.

Too much has been made of the Mabo decision. This was based on tribal land rights over a piece of land that Aboriginals had always occupied. It does not apply to Aboriginals living in cities. The Mabo finding cannot apply to people who are more European than Aboriginal. Native Britons were invaded by foreigners with Celtic blood being diluted by inter-socialization. The same has occurred to Aboriginals. Virtually no full-blood Aboriginals exist today.
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