And a happy Solstice!
Dr. Larch Juckes Maxey
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of D F J Wood
Sent: 20 December 2005 11:35
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Subject: Re: Xmas and the environment
Yes, indeed - get out and enjoy a time that has been one of fun and
excess throughout history... it is the rest of the year that I am more
worried about!
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Enjoy your Holidays wherever you are
and whatever they are...
David.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Crouch
>Sent: 20 December 2005 11:08
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Xmas and the environment
>
>
>cheer up!
>
>And Happy Christmas All Round- to those who wish to enjoy it!
>
>very best
>David
>
>>>> Nick James <[log in to unmask]> 16/12/2005 17:12 >>>
>
>I don't necessarily agree that there are more lights but that
>could be
>because of
>a) where I live now compared to then;
>b) what I do now compared to when it might have been more
>novel and exciting;
>c) my blinkered geographical imagination, i.e. I really ignore
>it and look
>more to the subtle winter hues (and some times not so subtle
>red twigs). The state, market and most of civil society (it
>seems) are each and together
>largely ignoring the serious concerns that lie ahead.
>Environmental politics appear to me as chaotic and wide
>ranging in their
>discourses as Jazz music styles. Where do we go?
>Nick
>
>In a message dated 16/12/2005 15:37:05 GMT Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
>Is it my imagination, or are the Xmas lights getting more elaborate,
>brighter, and appearing on more and more houses every Xmas.
>Has anyone calculated
>how much CO2 emieeions these things cause, especially when
>they appear on
>November the 1st and stay up till mid Feb.
>
>One day our grandchildren will ask, 'daddy, why are those
>plastic snowmen on
>our lawn always white?' and we'll say, 'son, you know that
>white powdery
>stuff you see in the ice box in the fridge. Once upon a
>time, that sort of
>stuff fell out of the sky every winter all over Europe. Years
>ago there was even
>enough of it to make full-sized men out of it on the lawn.
>Then you stuck
>lumps of coal for buttons and a carrot for a nose to make his
>face' (Haven't a
>clue as to how we'll explain what a 'carrot' was). Then
>they'll ask 'daddy,
>what was coal'. We'll say, 'that was a rock you burnt to
>keep warm, and
>burning it eventually stopped all the white freezer-powder
>stuff from falling out
>of the sky'. They'll say, (after they've got inside out of
>the heat into the
>air conditioned Xmas party, and been given their festive Xmas
>T-shirts), 'why
>did people need to 'keep warm', couldn't they just shut the
>freezer door
>then?' We'll say, 'son, one time it was so cold in Europe in
>December people had
>to put pullovers on, warm coats even, because you see it used to rain
>sometimes in Europe, snow even'. They'll ask, 'daddy, what
>was a pullover? What was
>a warm coat? What was rain? What was snow? What was...'
>And we'll say 'Oh just go outside and play in the sand son,
>while I cook the
>Xmas turkey!
>And the Brummy kids will say 'daddy oi can't, the toid's in!'
>Of course they won't believe any of this, not after they find
>out Santa
>doesn't exist either.
>--
>Hillary Shaw, Geography, Southampton
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