Jon Weller's comment on article in Guardian on 20 May 202

"Lockdown has been a unique opportunity to show what can and cannot be achieved through behaviour change alone in the fight for the planet and millions of lives; an estimated 17% global emissions drop (31% for the UK) in April alone this year. That's a big drop, but still leaves 83% of global emissions as normal, showing the scale of the shift in economic and industrial structures that still needs to occur within a decade. Annual reductions are likely to be just a 4-7% drop, but still the biggest since WW2.

"Coronavirus has shown how important acting quickly and decisively is when a crisis occurs. Change needs to happen fast. We need to be ready for it and demand it."

Thanks for this. We must learn from this crisis over the complacency leading to an absence of planning and preparedness. Yet we knew in December and knew of widespread global travel that the virus would spread. The Really Big Crisis is climate that we have known about since the 1980s. Actually, about fossil fuel burning enhancing the natural greenhouse effect for the last 150 years. YET NOTHING IS CHANGING APART FROM THE CLIMATE!!

Prepare for The Really Big Crisis by:

Household carbon allowance to cut travel, like the '73/'74 energy crisis coupons.

NO flying, except for freight.

Use video conferencing, Zoom and the phone.

Basic Income for All to cut economic activity, expenditure, purchasing.

Minimum commuting by fossil fuels.

Max commuting by pushbike.

STOP the cycle of demolition, rebuilding, demolition in Brum city centre.

SCRAP all very high fossil fuel infrastructure projects, like HS2, Metro and Sprint.

PUT the trains and stations back before the planners and councillors destroy our remaining railway lines.
120 Kms Worcester, Black Country, Derby Railway finished.
Upgrade our cycle-walkways to make them usable.
8 Kms Dowery Dell Trail completed between Halesowen and Longbridge.