I think that they are great. They cheer people up at a miserable time of the year. I'd be interested to see a life-cycle comparison of crimbo lights versus fireworks, I suspect the average family consumes more resources in the use of fireworks than powering their festive lights.
We used to get clegs and wood hornets in the coal mines. They would come down with the wooden pit props. When one came after you, you had nowhere to run!
Wishful thinking I'm afraid. The population growth of the 20th century was fuelled by oil and coal. There is nothing that will come close to replacing these fuels. Most Malthusian forecasts predict that world population will peak soon, then fall back to 2 billion by the end of this century. I...
A small point worth noting concerning horses. If you use the food a horse eats each year to make biodiesel (rather than feeding the horse) you'll be able to make enough biodiesel to power a tractor which will do 10 times the work of the horse.
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