An interesting thought just occurred to me. All right, another interesting thought.
Leading up to the turn of last century, the new millennium, we had the terror of the Y2k bug.
Every computer in the world – it was said – had this issue, where there was a distinct possibility of the dates on said machines clicking over at midnight on the 31st December 1999 to the 1st of January 1900.
Lots of money was at stake. Lives, too. Chaos was forecast, devastation even. Don’t fly on an aeroplane, we were told.
But to combat this problem, computer developers the world over were recruited to rewrite fundamental code in what may one day come to be known as Developers Save The World!
Or perhaps not.
Anyway, my point is this:
If we can all pull together to combat something as fundamental as every computer in the world going Splat come the turn of the century, then why can’t we do the same for global warming?
It’s hitting 40 degrees outside, and what do we have in Melbourne Central, that shining beacon of mediocrity?
Yep, wide-open doors at the Sanity music store, with air conditioning units Just Inside Them, going hell-for-leather trying to keep the place cool. Just to paint the picture properly, we have 20 feet of door wide-to-the-wall, air conditioners right across the top of the doors blowing air downwards, ostensibly into the store, but given the location of said AC, 99% of the air is going straight outside.
With a bit of luck, the idiots who design these sorts of stores will be first to die of terminal dehydration and skin cancer once the ozone-layer is finally and irrevocably destroyed.
Bring It On I say.
