World on its knees

At least events on current eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Mountain give such sense. Due to the volcanic ash cloud that spread over large parts of Europe and the Atlantic Ocean nearly 100,000 flights was abolished.

It is said that the transportation of people and goods stagnate. True, on Sunday I went through the Prague main railway station and saw a really long queue of people waiting to check-in. However, I think this is merely a consequence of a kind of forcing through the air move. By looking into the schedules one can establish that the train drive from Prague to Vienna takes about 4.5 hour. The flight takes about one hour. But you should be about two hours before the departure at the airport. In addition, the airport is usually far from the city center. So suddenly we come to the same time, or rather in favor of the train. Not to mention that at such short distances the train is generally more comfortable. We get the same result as for example when traveling to Berlin.

I personally prefer the train at distances up to 500 km. Moreover, I think that if European countries actually join their forces to build a European high speed rail network the train drive would be even better. People would be more accustomed to travel by train, train traffic would be in total smoother and current problem would not even occur. Travel by train from Prague to London over 70 hours is truly unimaginable. This system obviously can't work for ocean transportation. Then can be utilized a much slower ship.

Neither the transportation of goods apparently needn't to be paralyzed. And what must be over the sea, you can embark. Not every consignment is perishable. On the other hand, fresh flower from Kenya or yesterday gathered apples in Argentina are really nonessentiality. Even so, I have bought grapes from India this morning.

It won't not be so hot with the world knocked down on its knees.