USA's "huge stimulus programme", "go big" (Today News, 23.6.21) fueling inflation and fueling the runaway greenhouse effect for earth to follow venus

USA's "huge stimulus programme", "go big" (Radio 4 'Today' News, 23.6.21) fueling inflation and fueling the runaway greenhouse effect for earth to follow venus

Kate Raworth, like many others, has highlighted how economic growth has brought and is worsening the climate, ecological, nature emergency.   In brief, economic growth = living infinitely in a finite world and living unnaturally in a natural world.  Very foolish!  Economic growth has brought so many untold blessings with prosperity for the majority.  However, it is a mixed blessing and we are seeing the downside, the curse of human-induced climate catastrophe unfolding, while we all carry on regardless with business as usual.

Paul and Simon Chief Exec, Paul Robinson (probinson@worcestershire.gov.uk) and the WCC leader, Cllr Simon Geraghty (SGeraghty@worcestershire.gov.uk) are part of the greater West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) that has just seen its fifth anniversary, last week.  The CA is continuing with everything that is bringing us down.  An official £1.3 billion is being spent right now by our leaders on all the wrong priorities: with Metro "bus on rails" trams replacing buses on roads and, replacing trains.  70 years of turning our railways into roads and buildings; now, with the 40th anniversary of Metro, 40 years of roads being turned into railways and railways into tramlines in the Black Country and Birmingham!  This includes our own Worcester, Kiddi, Dudley, Walsall, Lichfield, Derby principal, mainline railway being broken up into heavy rail (HR), light rail Metro (LR), very light rail (VLR) test track and the ultra-light rail, Stourbridge Shuttle extension proposal - all, would you believe, on a mainline railway between Derby and Devon via Dudley!!

Midlands Connect and the Black Country Chamber of Commerce have NOT withdrawn their support for the 87 Km, 8 lane, Western Orbital Motorway to complete the Midlands motorway box.  They started a campaign three or four years ago, according to the 'Express and Star' report I saw at the time.  Yet more of nature turned into concrete, brick and tarmac when we humans are part of nature!

All this work and much more is great for economic growth but disastrous for the future of humanity and all life on earth.  I would like us to question them about these matters and, of course, those of local concern to the Wyre Forest area - housing, open space and active (fossil fuel-free or more human-powered) travel on public rights of way (not just tarmac!).