Chance

“An unexpected event: risk: opportunity: possibility of something happening” ( only the English language could use the same word to describe ‘risk’ & ‘opportunity’!)

1. A chance where we have complete control
2. A chance where we have no control
3. A chance we can influence

1. A chance where we have complete control

When we eat,

What we eat – except where we have been ‘influenced’ by advertising – or sugar has been added to our food – (80% of supermarket products…)
2. A chance where we have no control

Acts of God . … In insurance circles, an act of God is defined as any accident or event not influenced by man. They are accidents caused by nature. Hurricanes, floods, hail, tsunamis, wildfires, earthquakes and tornados..

Girl or Boy
When I was born, there was a 50% chance my sister would get another brother – or a sister… she wanted a cat!

Today there are 32 genders, including Androgyne to Transgender so the odds of her getting a brother would have dropped from 0.5 to 0.03 – 17 times.

That chance has changed.

There’s a 30% chance of rain tomorrow – we can’t change that.
“Happenchance can’t happen unless you give it a chance.” – Bea Madden
When I came here in 2003 – a divorcee with plenty of dreams, but not much else. I put myself on ‘Findsomeone.com’ & met Margi – by chance. We were soon married,
- the best 15 years of my life!
That chance was ‘remote’ unless you think – as we do that someone upstairs had been to computer classes..!
3. Chances we can influence.

Wearing a properly adjusted car seatbelt .

People not wearing a seat belt are 30 times more likely to be ejected from a vehicle during a crash. More than three quarters of them die from their injuries.

Air liners have at least 2 engines – so they can still arrive and land safely if one should stop.
We don’t drink untreated water – dirty water kills .5M people a year worldwide.
(85% children)

These are carbon emissions and sea level rise: The scientific consensus is that sea level rise is caused by our carbon emissions.

CO2 in the air recently broke the record again at 410 ppm, last seen 3 million years ago when sea level was about 65 feet higher – which would drown Bangladesh, New York, London and many other places.

The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is one of Earth’s most agriculturally productive regions and is of global importance for its exports of rice, shrimp, and fruit. The 18m inhabitants are some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change. Over the last ten years around a million people have migrated from of its vast expanse of fields, rivers and canals.

By the middle of this century, – in only 32 years time, experts estimate that climate change is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people. If this group formed a country, it would be the fourth-largest in the world, with a population nearly as large as that of the United States.
Water – friend or foe?

We can’t live without it – yet it is threatening millions.

We live on possibly a unique planet, the only blue one seen so far in the milky way – blue from the sea.

And us men are 60% water – our brains 85% water.

Seems the Chief Designer had a plan when he designed us…

He made each one of us to the print of our index finger, a unique design.

And he gave us complete free will

– there is nothing to stop us driving into a stovie pole. There are 7 suicides a day. But hopefully most of those sad people are alone. They don’t kill others.

With Climate Change – our way of life kills others.
What can we do to avoid sea level rise?.

This 14 year old girl I India – with her Dad – converted her bike to run 60 kW on 10 kg of – solar? – compressed air. And the car did 800 km in the thirties – on
compressed air.

Our cars don’t have to run on hydrocarbons.

The Hydrogen car.

A car fitted with a fuel heater so it can run carbon neutral on used frying oil.

Our houses:

An 8.5* stawbale house & waterless composting loo.

We can improve the insulation of our houses – or make them of insulation.
What we eat:

The Future
We only have a 5 percent chance of avoiding ‘dangerous’ global warming, a study finds

⦁ That is the chance of picking this white ball in the dark

Experts say we have three years to get climate change under control.

“Heatwaves are coming earlier, they are lasting longer and they are hotter. They build up for days and before you know it, elderly people, infants and the homeless are in danger.”

• Tim Flannery
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