Indonesia's leaders hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. They probably would prefer to be remembered for that, rather than for being publicly associated with an "invention" to convert water into oil.
In case readers of this newspaper have not noticed by now, your correspondent is a cynical sort.
Laudable as it is, relying on a magic wand (how else do you explain converting water into oil) , is hardly the stuff of first class government in action. Neither is the government attitude that they can walk on water and not expect the voters to remember these magical events.
But the truth of the matter is that global warming is not an easy matter to be resolved. It takes as much scientific innovation as much as political leadership.
But as a nation, for us , "scientific innovation" means Blue Energy (they even have a brand for aqua conversion) and "political leadership" means creation of a taskforce (after a while, the task is ill-defined but "may the force be with you" blessing was given by the leader anyway.
This is one of the reason for my earlier posting , where I urged us to act as individuals and tackle the problem starting from ourselves. As that icon from a bygone era put it , "As each man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others ..he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope ..and by creating millions of energy ...creating a strong current to crush the mightiest walls ..of resistance"
Oh and just in case you were wondering, water apparently was mixed with gasoil to come up with "water conversion".
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Well written article.
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