Cause and effect
A quiet afternoon. Time for me to play the the blame game. What science refers to as cause and effect. In reality most situations involved neither. If I look around my neighbourhood I will notice that there are no schools. There used to be. There are also very few school age children. Does one force the other? We also have a distinct lack of railway trains. We used to. About the time that the trains left so did the need for box cars to ship things. Once again cause and effect or nothing at all. I know we still have potatoes but we also have a larger number of big trucks so at least some problems have solutions. We have fewer ice breakers sailing about. We also have less sea ice. I know this is due to global warming but did the ships leave before the ice? I do not know. If you look at newspapers we still have some of those but there is no local delivery anymore. There was a time when the man went by and left a rolled up newspaper in every post box. A historical thing I guess. I know that newspapers are still out there although I do not read them either. We have better things now like the evening news on TV. Less ads if you ask me. As well in my backyard I have a large number of small birds. Was that always the case? I should look for some of the bird count census results from a lifetime ago. Up till now I have covered transportation and communications and education. The only remaining thing that I care to look at is the number of stores locally. Oddly enough we have had the same local store for better than a century. Proof that not every business model is doomed to failure.
