Going green

Scott Adams on how to build a green house (and how not to).

Let's say you love the Earth. You see an article in a magazine about a guy who built a "green" house using mostly twigs, pinecones and abandoned bird nests. You want to build a green home, too. So you find an architect, show him the magazine and say, "Give me one just like this."

Good luck with that.

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Thanks to the shortage of water supply and the frequent powercuts, many houses in India have solar water heaters. The newer ones must be built with a mandatory water harvesting system. Amongst the most crucial of problems faced by the climate-change supporters, is to convince people how grave the situation really is. Humans, as it turns out, are not adept at grasping catastrophic problems of chronic and gradual change. But give people real, tangible, sometimes embarrassing problems- such as finding there's no water in the pipes when you're all soaped up or to have no hot water and to bear the guilty secret of having gone to work without having had a decent shower; then things will automatically fall in place.