Bicycle: Charkha of Anti-Global Warming Movement
Bicycle: the Charkha of Climate Conservation A fairly large proportion of us agree that taking concrete measures to combat global warming is an idea whose time has come. I feel public opinion on this issue is currently like a super-saturated solution where crystallization is eminently possible, but is not happening for want of exciting thought-leadership. There is no dearth of good ideas floating around as to how we can reduce energy consumption and fuel combustion. This is a point that many of my fellow-bloggers have made. There are a multiplicity of views as to what overall direction to take, which is causing some confusion. I would like to simplify things by submitting that Climate Change is caused primarily by technologies based on combustion-based energy — primarily thermal-generated electricity and combustion-engines of vehicles. And so I believe that the way forward is to choose technologies that minimise dependence on combustio...