I have been reading Jared Diamond's "Collapse - how societies choose to fail or succeed" (Thanks Marja!)... fantastically interesting and fascinating book considering the depressive subject (and basically scientific approach). I started reading it during the Thessaloniki week - nice light holiday reading ;o). Many things look now "slightly" different. Approach to Helsinki makes you think how well we in Finland might be positioned in the changing world - our soil is in great shape, there's lot of it, no big sources of pollution, amazing amounts of water everywhere... and we have culture of taking care of our forests (which we have shitloads of). Comforting, as long as the Gulf stream keeps moving and the ice away from us ;o)
Btw, this particularly I did not find very "intelligent" way of advertising new bikes for children... pretty discusting:
Money ("Arvon mitta ja vaihdonväline" as Robotti Ruttunen from Rölli Peikko so well it put) has taken too often over the common sense in the world which after all has limited resources ... The people in Easter Island just kept building bigger statues when the collapsing of their environment was speeding up... we repeat the pattern?
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