31st July 2022 - just jotting down thoughts.

"We are declaring a climate emergency. Everyone can, in whatever place on Earth they call home. No one needs to wait for politicians any more – we have been waiting for them for decades. What history shows us is that when people lead, governments follow. Our power resides in what we are witnessing."

Fight the good fight don't give up is what Rebecca Solnit and her writing companion are saying and that is precisely what we should be doing.  Not giving up and slinking back into some hole of hopelessness. Only yesterday I came upon a thread in the Tod Chat of someone saying why don't we create our own energy, surrounded as we are by wind and energy.  Over a hundred replies.  Vertical Axis wind turbines were mooted, smaller than the horizontal wind turbines, they could be used individually on houses and of course along motorways to generate energy.  

Other countries are addressing the crisis, building their roadways to generate energy, making the cost of train fares small to encourage people to use the trains more.  Though in this country the trains are often overcrowded at peak times.  Why the hell  are we spending all that money on HS2, when it could be so much better spent on the infrastructure of revamping existing train services.

We are at this precise moment in time witnessing a government that does not know what to do, so we follow two people vying for leadership, both unsuitable for today's crisis. Take the media hype off them and concentrate on what needs doing urgently now.  We have been lulled into a feeling of doom which will do little to help future generations in their battle to survive.  

For years I have watched the 'sustainable' people craft, individually and selfishly in their own cause though, many ways of producing energy and wondered what about the rest of society when the day of doom arrived.  To be quite honest they used more stuff to create and invent, than was necessary too adding to the piles of waste we already have.

When we talk of using the natural energy around us there is obviously problems when it doesn't work, the wind stays still, the water in the rivers goes low in times of drought and the Archemides Screw will not work, and perhaps James Lovelock is right to defend nuclear power.

James Lovelock was like Rosie in the above video, an engineer/scientist trying to solve problems, they are human, Lovelock now recently dead.  Nuclear power of course is somewhere in the distant future, taking ages to build the great silos that house those dangerous materials.  But scientists are beginning to worry at the speed of climate change and the rise of temperatures, that are setting off fires all around the world.  We have to start doing something now and not put it off whilst two clowns caper in front of us trying to be  leader, perhaps the time is fast approaching, and I don't mean the coming strikes, when we should turn away from government and start addressing these problems ourselves.