Sometimes people turn the argument around and for an instance you see a different slant to a story, here it is told in the tale of the grey - red squirrel conflict, and makes clear it wasn't all the fault of the grey squirrel...taken from this link
"During the early part of the 20th century, gamekeepers and others viewed red squirrels as pests and a bounty was offered on their tails. In Scotland alone, between 1903 and 1946, 102,900 red squirrels were slaughtered."
Someone attacked Greta Thunberg as a 'naive and pathetic little school girl' on a forum yesterday. rather than go in and get cross, my only reaction was that she had done more for a movement than many others. And of course how we read others and the terrible mistakes we make when first we choose to comment makes the written word so much stronger than the facial smile you would see in real life.
So how do we react to 'Climate Change' I wonder? Is 'Extinction Rebellion' a jumped up protest group of ne'er do wells, did the senior element and the children not impress those who would castigate the foolishness of people stopping the traffic. Terrible nuisance of course but how do you fit all those people into one basket, they are scared of the gathering gloom. Can it be that in this country with a media so in love with the word 'B***** we have forgotten to look elsewhere in the world for news, for the Amazon forest destroyed at a terrible rate, for islands overcome by typhoons and hurricanes, our country complacently contemplates itself and ignores the wider issue.
To be quite honest I am not sure where all this will go, 1.5 degree rise means that there will an awful lot of fires around, experienced here on the moors of course, after a very dry winter.
I am being gloomy again, my only recipe is that we must plant more trees and protect those that are still with us, it may not save the world but at least it will give our hands something to do. Came across this on F/B this morning, very surreal of course but a message I suppose.
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| Remiodos Varo - Spanish/Mexican painter - 19th century |
What a commanding and frightening painting. I am always surprised and intrigued by the visions of artists that capture those thousand words.
ReplyDeleteThe broken circle, the trees, all symbolic of today of course, art is a direct form of expression that speaks to us. On F/B there is a History of Women's Art group, it is surprising how many there were!
ReplyDeleteMany people like stories with happy endings. After the angst, the suffering, the dramas, everything turns out well. However, I fear that "Climate Change" by Hugh Manity will not follow that fictional pattern. Whoever said that Greta Thunberg is a 'naive and pathetic little school girl' is a complete buffoon. Greta has told it like it is.
ReplyDeleteWell the truth is slowly being arrived at too late, fairy stories are for children of course and most have happy endings but there were plenty that didn't. The 'buffoon' (actually he is very erudite, that is why he is so scary) went onto to malign the hippy element of the week of ER protest, again unfair, they are the ecowarriors that take the blunt edge of the police.
DeleteMany don’t want to hear the real news because it is too difficult to comprehend, and they assume others will take care of it. Climate change is affecting us all and each of us must do our part, no matter how small it is.
ReplyDeleteHi Arleen, true and as you say it is the individual that makes the change. There are small rays of action by the government but then they get distracted by making money through rogue businesses.
ReplyDeleteMighty oaks from little acorns grow springs to mind. The only thing we can each do personally is to play our small part. Whether it is enough we will probably never know.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Pat, it all takes effort.
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ReplyDeleteA good talk in Bristol
https://youtu.be/daRrbSl1yvY
Also this certainly encourages the tree planting! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/02/this-report-will-change-your-life-what-zero-emissions-means-for-uk
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