Martin Knox | Author
Martin Knox
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25.01.2022 My book is at the publisher's and I am able to relax after a career dealing with energy technologies as a chemical engineer and science teacher. I feel duty bound to tell the theories of my alternative paradigm before public policy disasters occur. I do not accept that it is too late or disloyal to criticize authorities who are responsible.... http://martinknox.com//animal-farm-2-my-climate-change-st/
19.01.2022 This speculative fiction novel begins 250 years in the future when Australia is governed by the Yabras, an indigenous dynasty. Abajoe, 21, lives with family members in an empty apartment building in deserted Meanjin, the state capital city evacuated after famine and flooded by risen sea level. He grows food hydroponically and experiments with hybrid meat animals, half rabbit and half possum, to discover population limits by dynamic modelling under harsh Australian conditions, with grass always browned by drought.... http://martinknox.com/2021//29/the-grass-is-always-browner/
16.01.2022 People encountering the 2020-21 pandemic restrictions may have 'entered a time warp', with distortion of familiar values, especially money and time. Finding a way back through unfamiliar financial terrain could be important. Covid has created uncertainty and anxiety for many people. They have abandoned, slowed or deferred usual activities. There has been a timeout, allowing relaxation from stressful routines but restrictions may have brought complacency and slack inactivity.... http://martinknox.com//lifestyle-recovery-reset-after-pan/
07.01.2022 Energy was rationed in war-time to conserve scarce supplies. Less severe scarcity was dealt with by allowing the price to rise. A person's energy consumption was mostly unregulated, without limits on demand. The Paris Agreement in 2016 . . . '. . . set out a global framework signed by 192 nations to avoid dangerous climate change with a long-term goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels; to aim to limit the incre...ase to 1.5C, since this would significantly reduce risks and the impacts of climate change; the need for global emissions to peak as soon as possible, recognising that this will take longer for developing countries; to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with the best available science, so as to achieve a balance between emissions and containment in the second half of the century.'... http://martinknox.com/2021/04/08/limiting-high-energy-users/
06.01.2022 'Freedom is nothing left to lose' (Song: Bobby Mcghee). Conversely, can acquisition of a product bring true freedom? True freedom is much sought after. Giving away one's possessions may be undertaken to achieve freedom. Is going without honourable, to people other than stoics? Some religions offer poverty as a virtue bringing salvation. Can giving and impoverishment be a hangover cure for a binge of hedonism?... http://martinknox.com/2021/04/12/freedom-from-possessions/
