Back online from Beijing

Back online again after last blog dying as I was too busy to pay the fee!
Stuck with blogger giving me a chinese system for now,...my Chinese must be getting better as I understood everything to register!
Back in Beijing. Air not too bad, ...although thunder storms interesting.
Fascinating talk today about the power industry here. Coal prices gone up,..price to sell power fixed,...producers in the middle all not making money. Some Chinese might go cold in the freezing winter next year,....a fascinating case study for a MacroEconomics class,..let alone the environmental conversation.
Logical thing to do of course would be to provide support to the solar and wind industries to sell home and business solar and wind generators to all people in the areas,...and then the whole issue would be pretty close to solved,....let alone the benefit of starting to put better installation in old buildings here.

I get exasperated and thoroughly depressed by the incredible environmental destruction going on here in China,....but at the same time love the challenge of thinking about how these can be overcome,...what are the systems and interdependancies and incentives and play,...who are the players,...and who is the one that would have the incentive to make the (sometimes very easy and small) decisions which could bring about some huge changes with results for environment, peoples daily lives and living costs, new economic development, new realms and paradigms of thinking and whats possible.
Last century our grandparents saw so many changes which could never have even been envisaged when they were young, that even though I know that our climate change and environmental desctruction ( let alone poverty and human rights) issues are huge, ...I believe somehow we can overcome them.....we just have to act faster,...and keep pushing the envelope as all those inventors who had a dream did last century,....Edison, Wright brothers,..Rutherford,..Einstein,..Marie Curie,...we have to have more and greater breakthroughs than they did,...and all the others who invented radio, television, the internet,..mobile phones,..jet engines,..trains,.robots....and finally .....computers such as my little baby here.
We need to harness all our energies to create solutions for all our future. Sustainable solutions to develop our own opportunities. We'll all regret it in years to come if we have plenty of money and career or whatever success, but nowhere to go on holiday as the rivers, lakes, mountains are all polluted,smelly, with fish floating upside down and unable to be swum in...forests cut,...land desert,...etc.
More xiaci! (next time).