Lovely to hear from you, John and to write in the way you have. For a bit of fun, this is my riposte!
WARNING!:-
I'm having a go at the thoughtless, rich racers to greed and luxury, living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet.
MY REPLY John, for pointing the finger at F1 racing and to China, India, to justify ourselves in the rich, greedy, lover of luxury Western world, to also joining in the high life and also ripping into the world's resources as if there is no tomorrow:
What I'm on about in the piece, below, is postponing the inevitable, not acting like eco-fools and hastening our own demise.
It's also about personal integrity and minimising our personal hypocrisy in the way we behave to one another.
It's about being honest, responsible, being true to your lights and what you think, personally, is right.
It's about keeping the law ourselves even though our prisons are jam packed with criminals who have broken the law.
It's about, if you want a less greedy, selfish and violent world to actually, yourself being more thoughtful, sharing and non-violent yourself.
Just because violence and warfare is so popular does not mean that you have to be joining in the revenge, the anger and hatred we see in Gaza/Israel since 7 October '23.
It's about standing up for what you want in building a more responsible, sustainable, socially just and other regarding world instead of the gung ho, live it up today and to hell with tomorrow; never mind the poor and future generations mentality.
I can take all I want for my own happiness and well being.
I only live once, anyway so why not be selfish and greedy and live for myself, alone?
SPECIFIC RESPONSE:
A bit of car racing in Scotland is peanuts when compared to global Formula 1, which in turn is minor compared to the industrial emissions by China, India, etc. UK was the workshop of the world first and for a century. Now its China producing many goods for us as the workshop of the world. India was under the heel of the UK for a century and suffered much. It also wants electricity to run a similar rich lifestyle to ourselves. Who are we to stop them after our century of material excess and a century of ruling over India as the British Raj and, over so many nations, so unjustly?
I'm an optimist by nature but even I fear the human race has left it too late and is not acting in a concerted way - so don't get too worried about your individual emissions It has to start with individuals, with you and me, John - I'm not 'cos it's governments who need to work together to solve things. NO! We, as individuals have to live and be, in order "to solve things". Governments are made up of you and me! You and I are the leaders, not the failed governments of the world who can only govern if we let them. Prisons only operate with the consent and co-operation of the prisoners.
But oil & gas reserves running out would surely be a good thing in the prevention of global warming? YES! But no point in hastening it. Instead, minimise gas/oil burning and use renewables fully and living more simply so that others may simply live. Oil is more important for 101 vital things than wasting it in burning the stuff in racing round and round in circles. You can't drive or fly using coal!! Might cause chaos in developed countries but so what if it saves the planet? The planet will go on its merry way without us arrogant humans!
Cheers
John E
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