Organic Traffic!
Ok, that’s my oxymoron of the day!
I’ve just added Organic Sanity to my Technorati Profile, in order to spread the word a bit further into the world of blogging and readers with an interest in an organic lifestyle. Hopefully it will help to generate some more online traffic to my organic door!
But how far off the truth am I with that title?
In fact, there are ways of getting around that are totally organic and could quite genuinely be described as traffic. I’m talking about pedal power on two wheels – the bicycle!
Ok, that’s not the only one – for the lazier traveler there are electric vehicles around that don’t put out any pollution into our atmosphere. That’s good. What’s not so good about them is they aren’t very recyclable as the batteries they use contain corrosive acid and heavy metals (lead) or worse (nickel-cadmium).
But then you could go crazy by running down all the modern attempts to cut down on pollution in order to keep our transport system going. At least many of them are rather better for the environment than the carcinogenic exhaust fume producing internal combustion engine!
And even that environmental nightmare has a good side – the diesel engine was originally invented to run on heavy oil – vegetable oil in particular. And it really will – with a little modification – and what comes out of the exhaust is a darn sight cleaner than when those engines are used to burn petroleum derived diesel oil.
It is even possible to run a modified internal combustion engine entirely on hydrogen gas – the by product that comes out of the exhaust is water vapour and nothing else!
So if these alternatives are there, tried and tested and are known to work – why do you suppose they aren’t the main methods of transport in the twenty-first century?
Don’t make your head hurt by trying to figure that one out – it’s easy. Just think of that thick black liquid that comes out of the ground and makes some very large companies some very serious profits every year. It’s what lives are risked at crazy depths under the sea to drill out. It’s what countries go to war for. It’s what the world economy is based on.
Without it, where would we be? Hmmm.
