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Stuffing our environment
too slow, way to slow at present rates I believe to turn round the mess we have made. Sure, people are becoming aware and efforts are being made to clean up some of the damage we have done but that doesn't counter balance the continuing degredation going on around us all. I am more aware than many and I am changing basic things but my lifestyle is masisvely unsustainable. The lack of significant change frustrates the hell out of me. My wife brings back fking plastic bags from the super market by the truck load and doesn't even think about it despite all the times I tell her not to. Its ingrained in collective psyches. It makes me want to throw a brick through someones window. rob rob I was recently on a World Cruise and called in at Port Kelang in Malaysia to visit Kuala Lumpur and the road from Port Kelang to KA, the journey takes about an hour, 'was' lined on both sides with Rubber plantations. I say 'was' because for as far as the eye can see, these have been grubbed out, the land built up and houses and houses, and flats and flats and factories and factories are being built. The UK is no longer the manufacturing nation of the world, hasn't been for a long time and what was left, Maggie Thatcher destroyed, the manufacturing is over on the other side of the world and that is why they are ripping the place up to build houses, factories and accommodation. But think on a bit, all of these rubber plantations ripped out. Synthetic unbiodegradeable plastic to replace it? Adding to your concerns? and Sacha says we are now considering the environment more? To coin an ex net nannies favourite expression, "I think not" Look around you in this country. Houses going up on virgin soil and rain which 'did' land on said soil and soak into the water tables, now down the inaddequate drains and into rivers and after flooding the low lands, and the house which have been built on them, out to sea. I wonder why we have a hose pipe ban in force in April ??????????????????? Solution? Get rid of money. Mike |
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