It is not your knowledge of technical matters that is hampering you. It is your LACK of knowledge about topics that your managers value that is hindering your efforts. You obviously don't understand their philosophies and probably come across as having an agenda that is different from theirs. Management includes politics and the ability to compromise and see the other side. Work on those skills and regard your techie skills as just one arrow in your quiver and you'll be better off.
Actually, from what I've read, studies have shown that societies go through stages in terms of pollution. First, they are primitive. They pollute a lot per person, but most die young from disease, so the net effect is small. Next, they begin to industrialize, and pour soot and ash and other crap all over the place. Finally, they become wealthy enough to begin curtailing their pollution because they are no longer worried about dying at age 35 from starvation or other third-world maladies. E.g., slash-and-burn forestry in the rainforests is because poor people want a decent life, not because McDonald's is raping them for its french fry containers.
The solution to global pollution is global wealth, not Soviet-style top-down repression.
Oh, yes, and I agree the jury is still out on global warming; let's get some better computer models; even the experts admit their models are not proven to be reliable yet.
Here're a couple of good link to discussions on this subject: http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/deba tes/kyoto/ http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/
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Can I "pretend" to be totally ignorant for a minute: What's "the DR?"
It is not your knowledge of technical matters that is hampering you. It is your LACK of knowledge about topics that your managers value that is hindering your efforts. You obviously don't understand their philosophies and probably come across as having an agenda that is different from theirs. Management includes politics and the ability to compromise and see the other side. Work on those skills and regard your techie skills as just one arrow in your quiver and you'll be better off.
Actually, from what I've read, studies have shown that societies go through stages in terms of pollution. First, they are primitive. They pollute a lot per person, but most die young from disease, so the net effect is small. Next, they begin to industrialize, and pour soot and ash and other crap all over the place. Finally, they become wealthy enough to begin curtailing their pollution because they are no longer worried about dying at age 35 from starvation or other third-world maladies. E.g., slash-and-burn forestry in the rainforests is because poor people want a decent life, not because McDonald's is raping them for its french fry containers.a tes/kyoto/
The solution to global pollution is global wealth, not Soviet-style top-down repression. Oh, yes, and I agree the jury is still out on global warming; let's get some better computer models; even the experts admit their models are not proven to be reliable yet.
Here're a couple of good link to discussions on this subject:
http://www.spiked-online.com/sections/science/deb
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/