Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts

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!

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Over-bearing, over-here and everywhere - and nature nowhere!

Margaret Thatcher, when she was Prime Minister, in one of her three environment speeches said that we had begun a massive experiment with the very life support systems of the planet itself. She never spoke a truer word!

Yet, she did nothing to modify our behaviours that are threatening those ecosystems. Indeed, the problem is we are living unnaturally in a natural world and, we are part of nature. We are living infinitely in a finite world, convinced that money and energy grows on trees! We are living as God when the result is so far from God - so far from paradise.

We think we can increase our numbers infinitely and exponentially and that there will be no repercussions. Quite extraordinary!

A Green Party publication had: "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."