Fluids physical properties ofI was taught at school that alcohol didn't freeze. Given that school belongs to the train of thought that had a hell of a hard...
ButterwizardNo. It works a treat. The part that contains the butter is only just larger than a half-pound block...
to clarify, my point is that "joe public" drives about in his over enginerred and simultaneously under enginerred (from a polution control aspect) vehicle, only thinking about starvation in terms of food. People used to say "eat it up, half the world is starving" when food was wasted, never when other rescources are wasted. Now they dont even say it when food is wasted :-( (I understand in the US its the custom for restaurants to routinely provide more food on the plate than the customer wants to eat and that this waste is regarded as acceptable, then he drives home in a gas guzzler, our lifestyles here are less obviously obscene but only by degree).
Current capitalism seems to offer no mechanism to slow down. Everything is based on growth, (including our pensions) when what the world needs is refinement. We work harder and harder to obtain more useless geegaws when we should be translating "wealth" into free time to spend with our children, instead of letting them grow up in a seperate MTV youth culture concerned only with the brand name on the trainers they wear.
However, given that much of the starvation that goes on is in Africa, I think you have to also consider why Africa "doesnt work". Too many africans seem to wring thier hands and blame western debt as if it wasnt thier countries that bought the arms to liquidate thier fellow countrymen in the first place. It takes two to tango. Other poorer areas like India, China and many other eastern countries seem to be able to make huge leaps forward that promise future prosperity (if they can get population under control) while Africa never seems to get anywhere. I dont know what the problem is other than pointing at corruption and willful incompetance in government? -- Mike Reid
