Live simply to simply live

Individuals, like me, are nearly off-grid, except in the darkest days of winter, by living more simply, frugally and cheaply and using the sun's nuclear fusion to give us electricity.  No gas for my home (except for my wife's personal washing)  Everyone needs to live like good ol' ME!!

WHY USABLE CYCLE-WALKWAYS ARE ESSENTIAL!

One day, there will be no oil and no gas worth pumping out.  And, honestly, every drop needs left in the ground, NOW because of deadly greenhouse gases to give us the runaway greenhouse effect.  We will then have to go back to walking, cycling and horse riding to get about.  I am trying to postpone that time for my descendants.

WE ARE ALL ON THE MAKE - BIG TIME!

It is all too easy to get indignant and sound self-righteous about MPs expenses. We wouldn't dare to do such a thing, of course, would we? The problem is that many of us do have the opportunity to claim expenses. Are we always beyond reproach?

Even if we don't claim expenses, we are all living so unsustainably that we are making the most of the system - as much as the MPs - to live it up today and to hell with tomorrow. Ripping through our one-off geological inheritance of oil, coal and gas to leave a most uncomfortable future for our descendants later this century.

I think it is only a question of degree. The richer you are, the more you are on the make, the more you are responsible for leaving less for your children and grandchildren. The more money you make, in a finite world, the more poverty you are creating for future generations. That is the uncomfortable reality for those who have to inherit the planet we are all busily trashing today with no thought for tomorrow and others!