BBC Panorama - 'Britain's Wild Weather'

Thanks, Rosanne.  You are completely right.

The problem is this.  When the good people of Stourbridge cannot even rise up in anger at the foolish destruction of your second mainline railway between Worcester and Derby through using it for Metro, a Very Light Rail test track and an extended cycle-walkway between Brownhills and Lichfield, there is really no hope for humanity.

I have just been watching 'Panorama' with Justin Rowlatt.  Very alarming.  But people and politicians don't get it.  More £s = more fossil fuels burnt = more greenhouse gases = more deteriorating life support systems.

One Green Party 'Manifesto for a Sustainable Society' in the 1980s put it very well:

"Either, we get our numbers and our activities into harmony with the powers of the earth to support life or, collapsing ecosystems will do the job for us."

Last month, my two youngsters each delivered a grandchild for Linda and I.  I am truly sorry for my own unfortunate contribution to the world I am leaving them to take over from us oldies.  We are both cutting our own personal impact and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions from the 200 greenhouse gases that I clearly remember being told, in a BBC 'Tomorrow's World' programme in about 1980.  Live simply, so others may simply live.  Tread more lightly on the planet. But, it's all about complacency, consumption and living it up, as we sleepwalk into a nightmare entirely of our own making.

Best wishes

Sustainable Society or Growth (and wrong growth!) Society

Haven't all the parties in power, over the years, found land for some use or other to cope with rising/growing expectations, standards of living, population growth, hyper-mobility ... ?

The Greens are unique for pointing out that this cannot go on for ever and a day.  Hence our 'Manifesto for a Sustainable Society'.  Living for tomorrow, living within our means, our limits and our boundaries.  Living for others.

Don't be impressed by 'Combined Authority' or 'Enterprise Zone'.  We have seen it all before.  There is nothing new under the sun.  Always more of the same - unethical and aggressive foreign policy, more for us less for you, fortress Europe!