Dear friends
I was at a wonderful Care for the Family meeting at Life Central last night. I, personally, thought the auditorium was overheated in the light of the multiple crises and, as we continue to rejoice in fairy tale, eternal, economic growth and, joyfully live infinitely on a finite planet and live unnaturally on a natural planet. In addition, one external door was jammed open on the carpet when we entered, was difficult to close and was still open when we left three hours later!
This is wasting oil and means we are still not stabilising our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which are still rising. UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres gave us a Code Red for humanity warning in August 2021 and now, on Monday, telling us we are all (8 billion of us on 15 November and up from 3 billion in 1950!) that:-
“Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” Guterres said. “It is the defining issue of our age. It is the central challenge of our century. It is unacceptable, outrageous and self-defeating to put it on the back burner.”
The very least we can do is to turn down the heating, to wear more and to travel less using up fewer exhausting oil reserves (electric cars and bikes are also dependent on oil/gas). I can easily do this. Why can't others?
Saturday, 5 November 2022
Tell me I am mistaken, in some way - please
How on earth can we address the multiple crises facing the nation, let alone climate catastrophe, if we can't even stop replacing or duplicating perfectly good buses and trains with trams and, with buses that think they are trams?
Hundreds of millions of pounds in price and in weight of GHG emissions are still being spent on Metro extensions and on Sprint, "the bus that thinks it's a tram".
Up to as many as 1,000 trees/shrubs are planned to be felled along the south side of Hagley Road, Birmingham to duplicate the many buses with super expensive, flash, over indulgent, wealth flaunting Metro trams and, perhaps, Sprint too (a 2010s, £12m scheme for Hagley Road is still not cancelled). Metro, definitely, has the second most expensive construction costs, of all transport modes, after the well over £200 m/Km for High Scam 2 that is the very greediest, yet totally unnecessary.
Tell me I am mistaken, in some way - please. REPLY to condemn or support!
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