By Stephen Russell-Lacy Climate change, risk of nuclear devastation, world poverty and global debt are all things that need to be addressed urgently. Cheap energy would be one important solution. Is the lack of significant progress is creating cheap energy due to random factors or human design? Or a bit of both. Climate change and … Continue reading Cheap energy – What’s stopping it?
Turn on the television news and there is an almost overwhelming focus on financial mess, social problems or crime. So what actually is the meaning of life? When I look around me I can’t help longing for a better kind of world. Sometimes I feel we are so used to the unsatisfactory state of things that we have given up hoping for something better.
Is idealism completely out of fashion? Have we become too cynical to have a vision of utopia? Or are we too scared of being tarnished with the same brush as the fanatical extremists who have not been slow in broadcasting their own hate filled criticism of modern life. Perhaps I’m being hopelessly idealistic but surely society could be better. How can I find my perfect society? What follows are the prejudices of an idealist.