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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 July 2007 : 12:20:16 PM
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LOL, I must admit, I have restarted the recycling and keep badgering the family about it, we do have tinned stuff and bottled water in the house too.
It's just scary how much a simple phrase and a little reading can change your mind and viewpoint from it.
I'm not perfect, and I could do more but every little helps, if we all did a little, then it would make more impact than the few doing a lot.
Problem we have is for every person who does their bit, we have 10 people who simply couldn't give a sh1te! that perception needs to be turned around before the country and the world can begin to accept forms of fuel and manufacture that are not derived from Oil, we can them start to remove the dependence on it, and hopefully avert the rather scary future that Alex has played out for us!
I think the big supermarkets/Dept Store chains should provide recycling for everything they sell, so it can all be processed and hopefully reduce the requirements on crude oil etc.
Lots of people want to recycle etc but the facilities for it are frankly sh1te.
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 July 2007 : 1:03:09 PM
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maybe the book will become required reading...and one day they will erect a statue of alex as the man who got people to stop! and think! about oil and recycling.
Centurion Parmenion
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 July 2007 : 1:15:57 PM
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thats the plan eh Alex....(the book, not the statue...hehe 
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 July 2007 : 01:39:16 AM
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A statue of Alex made from recycled beer cans.
"We are Starfleet Officers, weird is part of the job."
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Simon Scarrow
Ape
Uruguay
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Posted - 11 July 2007 : 09:16:45 AM
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| I was jsut reading something in the Sunday paper (takes me this long to get through them) about a environmental prssure group called Plane Stupid who seem to be very effective and media savvy. Anyway, it occured to me that the Peak Oil scenario in Alex's book might actually be a blessing in disguise if it destroys the very mechanisms that are rushing us towards a climate catastrophe. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11 July 2007 : 10:42:03 AM
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i was out at clients on monday and had to use the public transport (ewww) while on the train i picked up a copy of the metro and there was an interesting article in there called:
Car free Blueprint that could save the planet.
it talked about a report called zerocarbonbritain
http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/
have a look its very interesting
Centurion Parmenion
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 22 July 2007 : 7:02:27 PM
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Only days to go until release...so have you all got it on order??? if not why not!! tell your family...tell your friends...tell everyone...stop people in the street and tell them!!!
Centurion Parmenion
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Laidback
Invertebrate
Thailand
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 Posted - 22 July 2007 : 7:07:00 PM
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I ordered mine ages ago on Amazon .......... I was forgetting it was being released this week  (this month has gone in too quickly) looking forward to it |
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steverido
Single Cell Organism
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 August 2007 : 12:01:16 PM
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I have just completed Last Light. I would be interested to know where your ideas came from Alex. You are cutting so close to the potential truth and future outcomes I believe may possibly happen.
What a fast paced well thought out book. I don't think I have been so gripped by an authors book since first picking up Conn Igguldens book in the Rome series. How uncanny that I also bought a couple of books written by Simon Scarrow who I now know to be your brother. I have not picked one up to read as yet. I hope he writes as well as you! I will need to read one soon.I have slowed down on my addiction to computers and gaming. I seem to be in a phase of buying lots of books. There are so many people writing now, so many books, I tend to buy with a view that I can read it at some point. I read your article on one of the other pages where you were talking about the internet winning over publishers of papers and books and it all becoming free sometime. Possibly, although I personally love to read books when it comes to reading or magazines. A lot of publishers are all heading to publishing magazines onto DVD. Call me old fashioned but I still prefer to have the real deal in my hand. You can't take a computer so easily to read from as one can a book, unless you have a laptop and it would be quite difficult to just read a sneaky chapter or two whilst attending to other duties.
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Alex Scarrow
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Posted - 15 August 2007 : 3:00:13 PM
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Thanks Steve. It's a book that took me a while to think through, and yeah...I really do think a tipping point/ watershed event is approaching the world. There's just too many people, too much inter-dependence, too few resources and not enough common-sense.
I really was hoping the book would make more of a splash, get some serious column inches in the papers, get some kind of marketing push, but sadly none of that's happened. Instead, it seems the world wants to carry on reading about footballer's wives, Paris Hilton's time in prison and the mindless twitterings of ex-BB contestants.
What I do have though, is word-of-mouth. If you get enough of that going, it aces any kind of marketing campaign you can dream up. So...if you have a moment spare, a review on Amazon would help me immensely.
Btw, Simon's books are bloody good, if I say so myself. Stick with us Scarrow boys...we'll keep you going indefinately with stuff to read :-)
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Last Light Review.
