There are some interesting news reports:
- As Tokyo City failed in winning a right to hold the 2016 Olympics, the Tokyo Prefecture Government has now at hand a $4 billion or more (400 billion yen) fund reserved for the Olympic related projects. Tokyo Governor Mr. Shintaro Iashihara should invest this fund into earthquake strengthening and/or anti-flood projects for Tokyo streets.
- South India was attacked by heavy rains a few days ago, resulting in 2.5 million people in a state of homelessness. Indonesia was also recently attacked by a heavy earthquake while the number of victims and casualties is yet to be identified, though estimated as close to 10,000.
- Some notable businessmen and politicians recently expressed in Japan their concerns about the double dip of economy. In the U.S., the employment situation is not expected to be improved even in the next year. It is apparent that G20 and G2 cannot work to save the global economy. Financial and monetary arrangements among G7 are a key to recovery, especially if such agreements are done in favor of Japan, since it is still Japanese money that has saved Wall Street businesses over the past year.
Indeed, in the middle of horrible incidents in the nature and in human economy, not enough people are yet to come to revere the God, globally, though in the aftermath of hard election Edward Kennedy died in the U.S. and Shoichiro Nakagawa, a former Finance Minister and younger friend of former Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso, died in Japan.
Anyway, life is wonderful for a man with full of adventures, if you are pious or not in Iraq or Afghanistan, fatefully.
SECTION I: Christianity, Art, Science, and Technology
I do not like Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), do not respect him, and never try to follow him.
However, it is necessary to regard hims as a non-missing link between mid-age Christian cultural traditions and technological development into modern Europe.
Yet, it is believed that as the Islamic world had well preserved legacies from the ancient Mediterranean civilizations all through the Middle Ages, Europeans could import those cultural legacies of the Greco-Roman Civilization from Arabs when they entered a new era called the Renaissance.
However, without academic and social systems, infrastructures or organizations built and operated under authority of the Vatican or Christian monarchs or leaders, those legacies imported from the Islamic world could not be well received, studied, and developed in Europe after the Middle Ages. One symbolic person is Leonardo da Vinci.
Even, Isaac Newton (1642-1727) lived and worked in the extension of the above paradigm.
And, the Newtonian mechanics have become the basics for modern engineering.
Even, modern electric engineering is based on the methodology having been cultivated in the study on the Newtonian mechanics.
The legitimacy of the methodology is supported and proved through study of Christianity and its derivative, European philosophy, leading to bold and ambitious pursuit and deployment of modern science and technology.
And, modern technology and science are the source of modern wealth as seen in Europe, America, Japan, and other emerging countries, including China, India, and Indonesia.
Now, the global warming issue is part of vast problems concerned with righteousness in people's application of modern technology and science to satisfying their material desire.
It is so rather than a simple issue of CO2 emission.
SECTION II: Global Warming and the Law of the Conservation of Energy
As I once discussed, the global warming might be related to the total amount of Energy mankind has released to the environment through their industrial and civil activities over years rather than to the physical phenomenon called "CO2 heat-reflection" effect.
It is so, since CO2 is not a source of energy or heat, but it works simply as a kind of mirrors to the ground releasing heat to the air and the space.
If so, it is GDP but not CO2 that must be reduced globally to prevent the global temperature rise.
In other word, as long as mankind has a desire to be materially richer, it cannot avoid the global warming.
Being poor with less goods and services is a key to prevention of the global warming.
Of course to set a celling in each country to the industrially or privately consumed amount of crude oil, coal, and natural gas, which are the source of CO2, is the easiest way to reduce CO2 in the air.
But, it must be practiced as part of efforts to reduce GDP of the world.
(To be continued...)
Luk 10:4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Luk 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
Luk 10:6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luk 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.