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16/01/2007 by Poz.

Where do I start?  Another grey day; still too warm for the time of year; glabal warming?  The only real solution is to wipe out a large percentage of the world population.  This may be a tad impracticle.  But think about it.  The planet took millions of years to lock all that CO2 into coal and oil and we are now relentlessly undoing all this i a matter of a few hundered years.  And we wonder why the planet seems not to be coping too well!

Sadly we in the west have had many years of prosperity brought about through using all the carbon deposits we can lay our hands on; forests, oil and coal.  Others now wish to emulate this and destroy the remaining forests, dig out the coal and pump out their oil.  Can we blame them?  Probably not.  

Even now we do not set good examples.  We drive when we don;t need to - why do people drive to work each day round the M25.  We fly for business meetings when there are perfectly good video conferencing systems and we travel the globe to get a tan and eat fish and chips in some foreign place.  We buy goods make in sweat shops in China which are then transported thousandes of miles.  Most of these end up in the bin a few days later.  Even food like chicken is mass produced in shitty conditions, ripe for avian flu, and shipped thousands of miles.  People in Kenya grow green beans so we can eat them in December whilst large numbers of people die of starvation close by.

Depressing isn’t it?  Perhaps I will cheer up when we get some real winter weather. 

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