Thoughts on climate change
At the weekend, amongst other things, I went to see An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary by Al Gore about climate change. I would recomend it as something you might want to go and see, even though you might think, as I thought, that a film by a politician is inevitably going to be incredibly dull, or that you know what you need to know about ( Read more... )
In some ways I do well - cyclist, low energy bulbs, minimal use of central heating (and double glazing, loft insulation) - although the real fire is probably bad in other ways. I'm not as good as I could be on electricity use, and of course a single occupier house isn't great, although that's changed to some extent recently. I haven't flown for about eighteen months. There are changes I could, and should, make.
The boat? Would be fairly low-impact if it was my main home, but as a second one - complete indulgence. What I have found this year though is how happy I am to be outside, out in nature, and that's important to me. Being happy, as I'm sure you'll agree, is an essential component of it all.
I haven't seen the film, but I do want to. I'm reminded though that nearly twenty years ago I wrote a feature about the greenhouse effect for the student paper. The features editor added a fairly scathing headline & sub-head, as if it was some crackpot theory - which some people think it is now, let alone then.
The future scares me, but perhaps not enough. I suspect one of the main uses of An Inconvenient Truth is that it does wake peope up, scares them. But still mainly preaching to the half-converted (which is still far better than not doing so).
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thanks for the reminder about the demo - should be a good day.
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