“The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them” – Michael O’Leary Wastefulness, it seems, is endemic to life on Earth.  Of the sun’s incoming energy, about half reaches the Earth’s surface, with the other half reflected or absorbed by particles in the atmosphere.  Of the solar energy captured by plants, no more…

  “Our work will at least have distracted us, … it will have made us respectably tired, it will have put food on the table.  It will have kept us out of greater trouble.” Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work “… stockbrokers and bookmakers often lead comfortable and happy lives, and it…