A swiss village was devastated when a huge chunk of glacier nroke off causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock. One person was reported dead. Is this a start of a trend where melting ive and reduction in permafrost releases ice and rock? Already this year we have serious consequences of our warming climate. The Northern Hemisphere is affected more due to its greater land mass, but we are seeing an increase in temperatures in the Atlantic with resultant changes to marine life. But Farage and the Lunatic Party want to stop a move to net zero, Trump wants to decrease electric vehicles and drill for gas and cut down more forests for lumber. Absolute fucking madness!
Why should the UK pay for mitigating measures when China and the USA continue to pollute the atmosphere. Firstly China is developing a greener energy production market but it will take time. They are also leading manufacturers of EV’s and solar panels. The USA will catch up after Trump ‘s his clogs. Can we get a world lead. Martin told me of the Oxford University battery that had worked since 1840. A great deal of research is going on and I can be hopeful that a solution will be found. Burning fossil fuels is just plain stupid. London passed a Clean Air Act in 1956 after several thousand deaths caused by burning coal. there are about 34 million cars in UK, of which less than a million are EV’s. This has almost trebled since 1970 (13.5 million). No wonder our cities are polluted and breathing problems increasing.
It made me think about supermarket deliveries and air pollution. Firstly they should all have EV’s but even so a delivery van could have 10-15 deliveries and be I would guess at least 8X more efficient. Home delivery of food is probably no more efficient as they teand to be 1 x 1 although a moped/bike delivery will be cheaper. Which makes me realise that we all/most use cars too much.
Tate brothers will face rape and trafficing charges if they return to UK. This again made my poor brain think! Has the world become more misogynistic since I was young. Whist the macho male dominated society has changed in the work place (out of necessity?) and the man as the bread winner concept, al but disappeared. The attitude to woman per se seems to have deteriorated. The Tates have millions of followers who revel in their masochistic attitude to women. Pornography on the net is freely available, and is often not nice! In my childhood smut was finding the sexiest advert in the Economist magazine of the National Geographic. Institute never thought myself better than the girls I knew. I think ambitions for girls may have been lower – but no one I knew would mistreat them? I even remember going into a pub in Scarborough (under aged) and being told that women were not allowed in the Public Bar. Times have changed but I wonder whether for the better.
