Environmental Graffiti

You present a sad and big picture. I did the post below for another site that explains some of my views. The politicians and media have got hold of this soundbite ‘climate change’. There is a disproportionate amount of coverage and too much simplification. Change a light bulb and the planet is saved. Stories like yours don’t get the coverage. This isn’t just global warming its ecological life support system collapse.

There are solutions but too involved to cover here. The solutions nearly got implemented in 2001. One of those all or nothing projects. It was so close, but lost out on a probable political decision.

Anyway talk is cheap but whisky costs money. If there are any large organisations reading this that want a serious attempt at resolving issues like this please contact Celtic Lion. We have the solutions we just need the resourcing to implement them.

I have some work to do in the next few weeks, I will try and assist in the most appropriate and safe way.

Post on Climate Change and the Greater Global Environmental Challenge.

When I heard Barack Obama quote Martin Luther King, “The fierce urgency of now” I made the connection with the global ecological challenge.

Its my concern that the climate models are correct. But they are only looking at climate change. if other factors are brought in the tipping point if global ecosystem collapse will come far sooner. exponential plus exponential= super exponential collapse.

There were 3 important pieces of work I had to do in December 2002. With everything else I was going to be working at maximum capacity.

Then we had premature still born twins, my Uncle died and my father was taken critically ill 400 miles away all on the same day. Suddenly everything hit me like I wouldn’t be able to cope.

Now my girlfriends in hospital. So I am visiting her and looking after her children on top of the a triple family tragedy and what I had already planned.

I attended a conference on London at the Dept Trade and Industry to set up the next generation of UK climate models. This is post 9/11 London and all these climate scientists are being guarded by machine gun toting anti-terrorist police.

It was the first time in my life I had ever seen a machine gun, only the second or third time I had ever seen a gun. I found it a strange juxtaposition we were there trying to save a planet, which includes would be terrorists. yet we would needed to be guarded against those were trying to protect.

I was still in grief but holding everything together because I had to, there was no one else in that insane December. There was this build up to a war that I thought was wrong. This strong feeling that bombs would drop on other children and other parents would be grieving.

So in one of my submissions to a UN report I wrote that climate change was more important than terrorism. As an antiwar stance. In the context of all the work I did for the report, it would mean climate change is an example of the whole planetary ecological challenge.

Somehow when it all came out in the open it was only the climate change part of the global ecological challenge that got the focus.

I feel now that I have let everyone down, like I have lost control of what I said. Like I nolonger have the voice for that one brief time was heard around the world.

I want to say climate change was just an example written in an emotive way. It is the whole planet we must love and care for, not just the climate.

This notion of global change and transition we must achieve in 5 years so babies at least have a chance of attending school.

We have a broken planet. Can we fix it? Yes we can!

My thanks for your reply, your article affected me quite profoundly and I have been thinking about it for a few days. I realised in a way it was something like what I had written on a post for Environmentalism 1666 when a comment asked why Britain wasn’t re forested.

The Great Caledonian forest of Scotland has all but gone. The hillsides are burnt to produce new shoots of heather for the game birds to eat for shooting.

Is there really any difference between the UK and Thailand? We keep open tracts of land where forest once grew. You can’t hunt foxes in woods on horseback.

I’ve put this elsewhere on the site but this is what I wrote after the babies had died. This is where the 2005 G8 agenda of climate change and Africa came from. This is where the climate change is a greater threat than terrorism assessment came from. The UK government’s Chief Scientist gave it global publicity and it was heard around the word. Al Gore even used it when he was told of his Nobel.

http://www.mp2.worldfriend.com/sustainable_development_forum.htm

To me it’s about control of the agenda by politicians. They only like to refer everything back to what they are comfortable with. Fiscal policy, tax incentives etc.

How can 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution and the complex ecological dynamics of the functioning be internalised into economic policy.

If a child needed neuro surgery a politician would not consider themselves suitable to do a brain operation. If a suspension bridge was to be designed and constructed over a river a politicians would not take the responsibilty to do the job.

Suddenly politicians have woken up to the environmental imperative and think they have become the experts in running the ecology of a planet. In no other field of knowledge would this be permitted or accepted. The most important decisions for 6.5 billion people, 60 million species of animal and plant and the ecological dynamics of a planet are being taken by people who until recently never had any interest or grounding in the knowledge required.

If a Prime Minister is in his comfort zone with traditional economics, then is confronted with a global ecological challenge. He tries to bring the situation under the terms of reference of his long held understandings. Similar with all politicians.

Prince Harry and William say the want to serve their country so the join the armed forces, hundreds of years of tradition. Surely in the 21st century they should have decided to become ecologists or climatologists. Barack Obama is crticised for having no military background. Yet Katrina did more damage than two jets and the planet is on fire, but not from terrorists.

I really thought I had got there when the proposal to use the Millennium Dome as a global environmental centre was shortlisted in 2001.

http://millenniumprojecttwo.blogspot.com/2007/01/millennium-dome-2001-proposal.html

The screens inside the Dome and the media network linked to it would have been running the satellite images of the burning of the planet so billion would have seen what was happening. Once it came to attention, action would have been taken.

You should listen to the song This Planets on Fire by Sammy Haggar. One of my 70’s rock heros. Very prophetic.
Chris may have it. On Street Machine or worth a download.

I’ve just done an article for an influential economics magazine, read by Cabinet Ministers, politicians, development professionals etc.

That one went down very well and I have now been given editorial freedom for the next, so I will be using burning of global forests as an example.

Thanks once again.

Roger
Celtic Lion Ltd