Ocean Rubbish:

Is it feasible to have two tanker style ships sail up to one hundred metres apart, and tow a net between them?  Periodically they stop, clear the net, and continue.  Any rubbish collected is then sorted and reprocessing procedures are started by persons employed to do such.  Studies could be about the origin and aging/disintegration of the rubbish.  Once back on land, the sorted rubbish is inserted into local waste streams.  If there are two or more 'pairs', a 'factory' ship might be added to assist in the sorting/reprocessing.

Notice should be made of possible removal of schools of fish, and other assorted ocean life.  Biologists could be among the persons employed.  For the possibly long voyages the accommodation might be 'motel' style.

Depending upon the fuel requirements, some of the rubbish could be reprocessed on board for fuel - in other words, burnt (bearing in mind possible inconvenient by-products).

 

Is co-vid a means that GAIA fights back as man seems to be killing nature?  Is it possible that the planet is becoming over-populated?  Think of what happens when an area that is fenced and contains livestock when the livestock cannot leave the fenced area.  What happens when the once massive herds on the planet are restricted and/or somehow restrained from their usual wandering range?  If I am correct in my basic knowledge, the land becomes stripped, that is, bare, unsuitable for sustaining any life.  Is Big Business at last taking notice of what they might be doing to their own living space instead of to someone else’s?

 

Expanding Native Forests:                            Create a buffer zone around the forest and let the forest expand, then put a buffer around that so that over time, possibly generations, but hopefully with the proper assistance, quicker, native areas get bigger and are also linked by generating 'corridors'.  Jobs are created in forestry environmental study in the buffers and forest.  I use the term 'environmental study' because the word 'management' implies straightening something which we do not like, but, is perfectly acceptable to nature.  As the buffers slowly get bigger more people are employed.  Depending on the area wildlife and plant diversity is encouraged which means employment for scientists (botanists, biologists, medical applications, water quality and/or purity)/caretakers (feral plant eradication/study?).

Jobs in ECO tourism can also be probable, along with education possibilities and with rangers who over time will get experience with the variations and transit difficulties about the area.

In the case of fires, should they be fought, or controlled only at their edges, or in the buffers?  Extra training so the scientists fight fires?

Among possible drawbacks is accommodation, which implies pets making difficulties (feral dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other assorted creatures).  Tracks/paths/roads which allow access over time can become wider and if not controlled exacerbate deterioration rather than repair it.

Not in any order 

1)     Will politicians offer to take a permanent drop of up to twenty-five percent of their pension if any plans they put forward that involve massive - twenty-five million dollars - expenditure of public monies, are later proven to be just as massive 'stuff-ups'?  Subsequent 'offences' add to the percentage.  Twenty-five million is just an arbitrary figure, I am just as happy to lower it.  Any monies recouped are to go towards remediation, and not into general revenue and possibly not audited only by Government auditors.

If included in the group creating the problem is a retired politician who has become a lobbyist, could they be exposed to the same penalty?

 

 

2)     What is the possibility that at the next election that the total vote for the two major parties combined totals less than forty percent because people are fed up with the shenanigans of both parties?  This means that leaves up to possibly sixty percent individual Independents.  Good luck getting consensus.  Oh to be a fly on the wall if this happens - politics might again have some relevance.

Toxic Wastes

Have Theoretical Chemists and allied professions, IN THEORY, see what can be mixed and matched (container of this, wheelbarrow of that, shovelful of two more, etc) to neutralize toxic effects of varieties of toxic waste.  Maybe the ash from Industrial Incinerators can be incorporated.  I say IN THEORY, because I am mindful of the story of the Universal Dissolver.  What is it going to be stored in if it dissolves everything?

Emergency Housing

 

Just an idea.  Use un-roadworthy mobile homes as emergency housing.  The home may be usable but un-roadworthy.  Collect them (RV’s, caravans, camper vans, etc) at sites where they can be checked for liveability using Men’s Groups, Service Clubs, Apprentices, Volunteers, registered plumbers and electricians, etc as appropriate.  They could be donated or acquired in other ways, (police impounds no longer required?) even bought with donated money.  If found to be unusable, they could be dismantled and parts used to repair others.  If nothing else, reports to manufacturers as to the reasons for some conditions over their life might be useful.

 Remove all road components, making the whole lighter, as they are no longer required.  Some of these components can be recycled as teaching aids (wear and tear) especially if there is a maintenance history.

 The idea is that these accommodations be then stored at various spots around the State until required after a fire or flood, or maybe used, depending on circumstances, by fire or flood personal themselves.  If grouped, a trailer mounted generator and/or toilet block might be added.

 If there gets to be too many of these for storage, some surplus might be sold as holiday ‘shacks’.

 Just floating the idea, as I could not find where to place it to best effect.