Chris Packham is superb and correct in every way

WE STILL HAVEN'T LEARNT HOW TO USE RAILWAY LINES FOR RAILWAY TRAINS!

Chris Packham is superb and correct in every way. He is a hero. As a species, we are committing ecocide. Chris's work has made it less likely that the 87 Kms Western Orbital Motorway will be built down the western side of the Black Country.

The tragedy is that over the last 75 years, we have been closing and permanently losing railway lines. Instead of mothballing them in case they were ever needed again or, even turning them into cycle-walkways, we have sold them off to any old Tom, Dick or Harriet. As a result, thousands of miles have been bulldozed out of existence. The very last, mothballed, mainline railway of 120 Kms (74 miles) is being turned, in the congested and densely populated Black Country, into a piddling little shuttle tramline, a VLR test track, an extended cycle-walkway and a trail of trees. What a waste!

No wonder the deluded, uninformed, wrong-headed authorities want HS2 to allow the rich to have an additional choice of high-speed train or high-speed plane to get between London and Brum super quick, super indulgently and even more greenhouse gas-guzzling.  Live it up today and all hell to pay tomorrow.

However, Jonathon Porritt has 'Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency' if we listen to the sound and sane pleadings in his latest book.