If you are really desperate, you can find the first of these undiscussed secrets here:    A Dirty Little Secret? (oldandireland.blogspot.com) .  There must be hundreds such undiscussed details that could effect our society. ____________________ OK, it's summer here in the northern hemisphere and it's hot out there.  So hot that wild fires have been breaking out all over the place.  A carelessly discarded ciggy butt caused a fire yesterday that burned down 10 houses!  Temperature records are being broken yet again, and the TV news channels would have you believe that venturing outside for more than a nanosecond at mid day will instantly vaporise you.  As someone who once (many years ago), worked in a desert where temperatures in the mid 40's centigrade were normal, and where you were expected to work in those temperatures, I find this hard to believe.  Granted it took a week or two to acclimatise to the desert, and unlike the humid conditions here ...

This thought ties back in part to an article I wrote earlier:   https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-pessimistic-speculation-on-future.html       At present, we are being sold the myth that if we all swap to some sort of electric car, then personal transportation will continue into the future, just in a quieter and less polluting form.   Don’t believe this!   Cars have at least one dirty little secret that the environmentalists have not yet talked about, and it alone may signal the end of mass car ownership. There are currently 38.7 million cars in the UK and 2.68 million in the Republic of Ireland.   According to google, UK motorists cover an average 7900 miles annually while their Irish counterparts drive further with a 10,500 mile annual average.   Now consider the tyres on all of these vehicles.   If tyres are replaced at around the 30, 000 mile mark my quick calculation estimates that we are using about 1...