Same ol' song
Well, I haven't been keeping up with the news over the last few weeks. Infact there's been quite a few days when I haven't read the papers, listened to the news. More that I haven't than I have I guess.
Still I come back to the same old song. The EU isn't meeting gas reduction targets. Not really a surprize.
I don't think anyone thinks that it's an easy thing to do. What is annoying here is the lack of information out there for most people. The government certainly hasn't made an effort to tell it how it is. The only thing I've seen that has gone towards to explaining the situation in a kind of pull out and keep for future reference is The Independent's series of little magazines and map about things that can reduce power consumption in everyday life and explaining how the planet and the systems that keep the eco systems stable are being destroyed. The scientific magazines on sale here cover it too but how many people read them.
There's nothing that can be considered a major effort by the government.
Personally I don't think it's going to be very long before the issue is unavoidable and then I expect the population to take more notice. Just watching what is happening makes me think that the reality of the situation is going to become apparent in everyday life in the not so distant future and then maybe people will want to devote some time to trying to find ways to improve the future.
I know how important is to try and keep the economy bouyant for a lot of reasons. That means trying to keep industry going while reducing pollution. There was an article in American Scientist or Scientific American, can't remember which one which described what some US firms were doing off their own backs, without bothering about what their government was doing, to try to make their businesses less polluting. I remember the article saying that the changes were very cost effective too. It said one of the reasons that firms were reluctant to make changes was that they considered that it'd be very expensive. What the companies were doing was actually saving them money in the long run.
The issue should be seriously out there in the public forum. Trouble is I'm not sure if there is a much of a public forum here anymore. Society has become so depoliticised. Once there would have been a structure which would have naturally gone into being interested in these events. People used to sit round and talk these issues out as a natural part of the culture.
It actually became fashionable to more or less sneer at people interested in these kind of issues rather than wanting to be a part of a culture that was interested in designer clothes and the other interests that go along with that kind of culture.
It's not going to change what's happening to the planet.
Still I come back to the same old song. The EU isn't meeting gas reduction targets. Not really a surprize.
I don't think anyone thinks that it's an easy thing to do. What is annoying here is the lack of information out there for most people. The government certainly hasn't made an effort to tell it how it is. The only thing I've seen that has gone towards to explaining the situation in a kind of pull out and keep for future reference is The Independent's series of little magazines and map about things that can reduce power consumption in everyday life and explaining how the planet and the systems that keep the eco systems stable are being destroyed. The scientific magazines on sale here cover it too but how many people read them.
There's nothing that can be considered a major effort by the government.
Personally I don't think it's going to be very long before the issue is unavoidable and then I expect the population to take more notice. Just watching what is happening makes me think that the reality of the situation is going to become apparent in everyday life in the not so distant future and then maybe people will want to devote some time to trying to find ways to improve the future.
I know how important is to try and keep the economy bouyant for a lot of reasons. That means trying to keep industry going while reducing pollution. There was an article in American Scientist or Scientific American, can't remember which one which described what some US firms were doing off their own backs, without bothering about what their government was doing, to try to make their businesses less polluting. I remember the article saying that the changes were very cost effective too. It said one of the reasons that firms were reluctant to make changes was that they considered that it'd be very expensive. What the companies were doing was actually saving them money in the long run.
The issue should be seriously out there in the public forum. Trouble is I'm not sure if there is a much of a public forum here anymore. Society has become so depoliticised. Once there would have been a structure which would have naturally gone into being interested in these events. People used to sit round and talk these issues out as a natural part of the culture.
It actually became fashionable to more or less sneer at people interested in these kind of issues rather than wanting to be a part of a culture that was interested in designer clothes and the other interests that go along with that kind of culture.
It's not going to change what's happening to the planet.
posted by Zeb at 11:22 AM
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