This autumn, I had seven days cycling and walking over the hills of the Scottish Borders. I met a guy who commented that our society and culture is locked into fossil fuels. Such is our deep rooted addiction and complete dependency on them, we cannot survive without them. Yet, they are quickly being burnt and, in the process, changing disastrously the chemical composition of the atmosphere. As Margaret Thatcher was well aware in the 1980s but did nothing!
Our food and drink landing on our table depends entirely on finite fossil fuels. Without them we cannot feed ourselves or even get our drinking water.
Of course, we all have to become frugal fossil fuel users and, I think follow the example of Greta Thunberg. I am also urging us all to insist that our political and civic leaders get their priorities sorted, show real leadership and reverse their spending priorities that lock us even more firmly into exploiting oil, coal and gas.
Apparently, Brexit is costing us billions that boost fossil fuel burning and disastrous greenhouse gas emissions. As is the £1.8 BILLION, to 2026, to replace some buses and trains with trams in the Black Country and Brum. I am referring to Metro and Sprint that, along with Brexit, are all foolish diversions and a dangerous irrelevance from responding to climate catastrophe and the very mixed blessings of burning our remaining fossil fuels. In the 1980s, I accepted the science that we are sleepwalking into a nightmare entirely of our own making.
If you think I am on the right lines, please write and speak to the leaders and their addresses, here: September 2019 A5 flyer
Plus, to your MPs and MEPs and councillors. Our priorities must change. Our personal life styles to one of minimum fossil fuel use.
“The more we spend, the more we burn fossil fuels, it seems to me. Have I got this right?” SELF, 16 February 2019
“More or less right! … ” SIR JONATHON PORRITT, 17 Feb 2019
"Just one caveat: as we decarbonise our grid, we’ll obviously be burning rather less of the reserves of remaining fossil fuels, and relying more on green electrons. But the rule of thumb still holds for the time being!" Porritt, 27 October 2019
We are living infinitely on a finite planet;
Living unnaturally on a natural planet.
The epitomy of folly!
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