Of course it does as well as Scotland

Mind you, Ozone layers have not been mentioned for some while.

The concern is rate of change.

I am no scientist but surely anything we 'create' on Earth was already there.

I guess that in order to make any progress they have to push the boundaries and take people out of their comfort zones.

At the end of the day if there were no humans here the earth would go back to perfect balance. But as we are here, we cannot control the world but we can control what other humans do to damage it. It's not coffee cups or plastic bags, but laptops, mobile phones, alexas and other such nonsense that we did perfectly well without for centuries.

If you want to stop the damage then you have to reduce demand for all the "stuff" we consider necessary. That's the bit that's difficult for most people. Particularly when our whole affluent economy relies on the sale of stuff.

Lots of shops are closing already. If demand for things we don't really need goes down because we are making do with what we have got, a whole heap more will close and the jobs will go with them. So of course it's not going to be possible to implement much in the way of change. I don't think anything much will happen over the next ten to fifteen years, but there will be slow small changes.

I've been going on about the reliance we now have on powered items that we could perfectly well do without. All the wireless tech relies on being wired up somewhere and it's on all the time. The wireless tech junk falls apart (as it's meant to) so that we have to go replace it and then when we do go to replace it we find that you have to change the whole system (because that's how companies make profit). You can argue that it's better to have a kindle than to use paper books, but at least paper books last a whole lot longer than most machines and they don't need recharging. Plus you can read them on the beach, in the bath etc.

If there's one thing that's good about all this it's that it will hopefully put a big spanner in the AI revolution which we most certainly could do without!

I am no scientist but surely anything we 'create' on Earth was already there.

One of your better posts l think AnnieS! Not that what l think matters.

Regards Donkeyman!

Not so. One classic example are CFC's - chlorofluorocarbons. These exotic materials, are only ever synthesised and were used extensively in aerosol cans and as a refrigerant gas but also other applications such as degreasing and other hi-tech cleaning products.

It was only when the ozone layer was found to be damaged that CFC's were traced to being responsible.

Ongoing and increasing Artificial Intelligence development is increasingly vital for more and more research and development into finding and providing solutions for problems that without the immense power of AI would remain insolvable. Solutions including but certainly in no way limited to creation of new treatments for illnesses including The Big C (and I don't mean the clap).

Data Processing is another area where huge advances continue to be made that vastly improve efficiency albeit with the occasional blip en route that reduces the need for people and increases profit margins by limiting stock holding sufficient to allow 'Just In Time' strategy to be implemented and stock holding over and above the bare minimum is lost money.