Quit your whining over the Icelandic volcano, The Islands Mountain Glacier Volcano.
As Kenyan farmers lose billions in revenue, as British office workers don‘t get their fruit salad for breakfast, as Pep Guardiola and Rafa Benitez whine their ways to Milan and Madrid by bus and train this eruption can act as a serious kick up the scientific and innovation community‘s behinds.
As with so much else in the nineties and the noughties, the most celebrated innovations of our times might not necessarily be the ones that do us the most good in the long run. Viagra, Facebook, iPod are all good for their use but we live on a perilous planet, where the quest for instant gratification (literally in the case of Viagra) often takes precedent over long term future planning.
Little has changed of note in the airline industry for decades. The cry for the opening of potentially dangerous airspace by the airline lobby shows how willing it is to play chicken with its planes, passengers and staff because of profit. Maybe the precautions have been too strict somewhere but the old adage of running with the volcano experts away from danger instead of towards it does not seem to apply where quarterly earnings are the major benchmark.
The fact that the volcano is actually contributing to a „greener“ planet by halting European flights also sends two swollen thumbs down the way of those who neglect to act on global warming.
So serious thought must be given to how the world plans to continue its travel and trade operating in the case of a major eruption. This is a great chance for innovators and scientists to push for change.
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Carl Mosconi
1 year ago
Tell us you are through so that we can save a few clicks each day!
Dadi
1 year ago
Not through Carl… just taking a break to try to make some sense of things before continuing …