Break in India

For my devoted reader, I will be off for a one month break till July 24th to the land of my ancestors - India, specifically Kerala.

Till then I am excited about increasing oil prices. Why? Andrew Leonard says it far more better than I can. Higher oil prices and increasing transportation costs means heavy physical goods shipped from our friendly manufacturing giant, China become more expensive than the same goods made locally.

Random Words and sentences - Sustainable

Hurray, I got the subscription - thank you Britannica. Since my blog posts are rarely very analytical and since I mostly write "me too" postscripts to other people's thinking.

Anyway I hope this is the start of a series on words that interest me and what Britannica's dictionary gives as definition.

So my first word is sustainable. Britannica says that a resource used without depleting or damaging it permanently is sustainable.

I sure wish I could live sustainable. My life is backed by the ICD implanted in me that uses raw materials and methods of production that are most probably non-sustainable. Leave alone the fact the device cannot be recharged and therefore has to be discarded and replaced every 4 to 7 years depending on how intensly it has been used.

Most of what I do and use requires unfairly huge amounts of energy.