A great quote and so amazingly true judging from my own experience..!

Occasionally, when the topic is appropriate, I have posted this URL in the hope of eliciting some feedback from readers of news-media comments sections (usually the Telegraph).  Frustratingly, NOBODY seems to be interested in this idea, whether from apathy or lack of imagination or both, I am mystified.   Either people think I am a madman or they simply cannot get their head around the idea..!

And then there is this website which has been in the public domain since 2012.  Admittedly I haven’t done my SEO, which is necessary if you want your website to be high on Google search rankings.  But I have always been ambivalent about doing that due to my my fear (totally unjustified according to Mr Aiken) that someone will steal the idea and take all the credit.

“A website can disappear without trace overnight, but a book is forever..!”

Of the very occasional comments I get on my website, 95% have been spam or porn, mostly from Russian sources – since Ukraine we now know what a bunch of sicko’s they are..!  But the other 5% have not been much better – the occasional bland comment like “some good ideas in this blog” (which is not a blog), never any pertinent questions or even any criticism..!  I would LOVE to get some constructive criticism – something I can respond to because I believe I have all the answers – and if I don’t I would love to be proved wrong..!

I posted the following comments on a Telegraph story about heat-pumps which received well over 1300 comments.  Almost every comment aside from mine received “likes” and many got replies too, but this sad little piggy GOT NONE..!

#1 “The greenest form of energy is energy we don’t need to use”. Why is nobody talking about modular “arcologies”, each housing about 8,000 people (like some cruise ships, but better and much more spacious) the apartments of which will have just one outside wall – or none, if internal and facing onto the atrium – will be car and commute-free, have much simplified and rationalised utility and services provision, and will save 80% of the energy we currently use – all without even trying. And that’s just for starters..!   Check-out “Oasis-Cities dot co dot uk” (direct links are not permitted).

#2. Funny that none of the greenies has ever advocated an idea that would, at a stroke, decrease our energy usage by 80%. I am referring to the concept of “Arcologies”, or enclosed cities, and they don’t need to be anywhere near as enormous as those proposed by Paolo Soleri in the ’60’s and ’70’s. Since we now have cruise-ships that accommodate 10,000 people in one hull, what stops us building something similar – but better and more spacious – on land?

Post #2 also got no likes but just this single highly thoughtful and intelligent reply –  “You go and live in one – I’m not !”

the “greenest” form of energy is the energy we wouldn’t need to use if we were to radically re-invent our antiquated idea of cities.

Lefties will love the eco-aspect of Oasis-Cities, but will fight it tooth-and-nail once they realise that the concept facilitates voluntary segregation, like ORANIA in South Africa – but on a much bigger scale.  

For the left, “saving the planet” comes a distant 2nd to the (for them) far more important issue of (enforced) diversity.