I have family up in flood-devastated Gloucestershire. I've rung them of course and been pleased to hear that, except for battered blooms and rather soggy cats, they're all ok and existing on copious amounts of home-made Bredon Hill plum wine.
On dry land everywhere, the prophets of doom gather daily to use the phrase "global warming". "It's all mankind's fault" they chime, waving packs of low energy light bulbs. Please, let's get common sense back into all this. The emphasis is in all the wrong places. My family recycle to cut down on landfill sites, not compete against the world's farting and burping cattle or Co2 released by the oceans. I have signed petitions and sent letters to supermarkets begging less pointless packaging... more for health and safety issues than environment. Try opening any blister pack of batteries without nearly decapitating your thumb and forefinger.
I also believe that a few dedicated vans delivering fresh local, seasonal produce is far more efficient financially (and environmentaly) than people leaping into cars to sample the already turning fruit selections bulging in the supermarket fruit and veg aisles. Again, it makes basic economic common sense. Perhaps because I was once in advertising and marketing, I cringe at new bandwagon campaigns, along with this misleading, so-called moral claptrap from politicians and Government-appointed scientists. "Carbon-footprints". Now there's a marketing phrase if ever I heard one.
"Oooh dear missus...mustn't leave your carbon footprint". Actually, what needs to be said in the current climate is, build proper houses and gardens again, preferably not on flood plains and just maybe these blips can be better contained. Also...dodgy subject this...can we please remember that we are an overcrowded Island. Politicians mumbling about new legislation to control our carbon emissions is a smokescreen for a failed, collapsed immigration policy. So how are we doing on the Common Sense front? Recycling paper, for example...makes perfect sense. Stopping the tide of unwanted mailings and door-drops bundling through your letterbox...suddenly you realise, the whole system is having a laugh at your expense. There's a limit to the paper you can recycle. Most plastic coated papers are unsuitable for recyling. But it all helps to fuel your local council tax bill under the guise of "we're getting greener". There's an old saying that says "where's there's muck, there's brass". And holding the eco-friendly ticket is currently earning big business extra billions.
Continuing on the common sense theme. Just about every processed food or household item you buy contains chemical cocktails designed to promote amazing allergies, rashes, toxic overloads.. yet suddenly, the eco-warriors see the cartons as the enemy. Read the labels:...and before you buy any more Coke...or any fizzy drink, look for a nasty chemical sweetener called Aspartemane, banned just about everywhere except in the UK for its suspected carcogenic properties. Mankind's undoubted contribution to world-wide catastrophe actually has very little to do with global warming. Think about it. In the meantime I think I'll open my own bottle of Bredon Hill Plum Wine.
I more than welcome a flood of comments...
7 comments:
The trouble with you eco johnnies is that you have no idea about honest labour. How else are we going to employ our vast illiterate and, for the most part, imported workforce if not in getting them to wrap and pack goods to within an inch of thie lives. Do stop trying to save the world by saving on packaging you know it doesn't make sense!!!
What's an eco-johnnie? Those Islamicative extremists are getting everywhere.
How much Co2 was there rumbling around the atmosphere after WW2?
The last big floods in the UK were in 1947, just 2 years later.Coincidence or what?
The war in Iraq must be generating masses of greenhouse gas...and I'll bet it's all sweeping across to The West Midlands.They also got it from Chernobyl.
The West Midlands always get it.
Unfortunately, its where they are. I reckon they should all move into Wales, and Wales should disappear into the Irish Sea.
"Glug!..."
All this saving the world malarky, how do we make a bob or two out of it, that's what I want to know?
How about a rock concert for the humble Carrot, (surely threatened with extinction if temperatures continue to climb) T-shirts 'Save the Carrot' flog 'em off E-bay for a fiver. Maybe get Madonna to write a song about carrots or George Brown to wear one...c'mon let's go carrot and at least we'll all die rich.
It's 2010 and it seems little has changed,and Wales is still there.
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