As we're all doomed the best decision right now is to retire to a wind farm.
You don't have to get up early to milk 'em, feed 'em or muck 'em out. What could be simpler.
Ok, retiring is probably a bit of a way off for me, and as the pension pot has a hole in it retirement is getting further away by the minute.
So what's been happing in the world of environmental fuck-up denial.
Well there's been the recent climate change conference in Paris, where it was agreed that everyone would have a good old think about trying to improve on climate pledges by April 2017. No commitment to do anything substantial right now but let's see if we can make our pledges closer to that recommended by science, and we have almost eighteen months to sort that out.
No commitment to actively do anything positive right now, it can wait, we've had billions of years and we have about a billion left.
So fracking is to go ahead, without consultation. Known to be environmentally damaging. And with the shrill argument that "well we need to get the energy from somewhere."
Well how about this. Use less energy you fuckers. Or if you really need to use loads of energy then get it from sustainable sources that don't create even more problems.
Maybe don't remove subsidies from wind and solar power.
"Yeah but subsidising those areas is like communism, hell we don't like that shit, they need to be able to stand on their own, to support themselves." Bloody hicks.
Of course they do, so let's apply that to the nuclear industry, which is subsidised up to its eyeballs, even before the cost of cleaning up the bits of the mess it makes that can be cleaned up have to be accounted for. None of that will be paid for from the private companies fleecing us all for our power costs, it'll all land right back on the public purse. Remind me, what is the point of these utilities being privatised.
Ok, let's all get in our cars and burn more fuel. Let's all look forward to the day when we can sit in a traffic jam in our driverless cars while we play angry birds or pacman, yes that's as up to date and hip as this rant is going to get. Never mind the endless ethical dilemma, the trolley problem*, whatever, we're missing the point. There should be fewer cars clogging up our towns and cities, killing people with pollution or direct physical impact, and draining our resources in innumerable ways.
The environmental cost of travelling by car can be ten times that of travelling by train, almost as high as the environmental cost of travel by plane. Are we all mad? I've got a car outside as well, what an idiot I am.
Where are my sources for this finger in the air and rather vague information? The internet, there's loads of stuff on there - just make sure you understand how impartial the author is, there are plenty of peer reviewed papers available if you can access that type of resource. And anyway, this isn't meant to be a fully researched piece of work, it's a quick hand job tossed off in between staring at cats and cooking.
So what are we going to do?
Well, people are trying to make a difference, they are out there, you might even be one of them. So don't get depressed and downhearted. Even though we are governed by fools whose only concern is that this shit doesn't blow up in their face during their term in parliament, and before they can cash in on all the conflicts of interest they are up to their ears in, some of them that is. There are people that are concerned, and we can all do something, consume less, recycle your socks - I don't know why are you asking me for goodness sake just get on the internet - do research, find answers.
And if we make it through the potentially humanity ending period of climate change we only have to make it for another billion years before the sun gets so hot the surface of the planet will be stripped of life and an atmosphere.
No problemo!
*Just put "the trolley problem" into Google, in fact I just did it for you there.
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