Monday 28 June 2021

Saying nice warm words; but carrying on regardless with business as usual

Ask the landowner and the walking, cycling, horse riding community to sponsor a footbridge or stile/gate.  Footbridges over 10 metres long should be maintained by Highways and the landowner.  There must be many wealthy landowners with the Bill Gates philanthropic tendency!

Why are the local authorities, regional government and national government doing the exact opposite of what is required to tackle their own self-declared climate emergency?  I have made suggestions to the WMCA, to our councillors and my MP but they just carry on swaying along, drunk on fossil fuels, on the broad road to destruction.  I have set my own fossil fuel budget by slashing my car mileage by 50% on 2019, on walking and cycling for shorter journeys and we spend a little over £1 a day on gas and electricity.  What about the rest of you following our lead and showing what they have to do?  Trains on railway lines instead of everything but the kitchen sink; PV solar on every roof and climate-proofing every building in the land, for a start.

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