You need to travel to the places not on the tourist trail to see what life is like and how things are done and have been done in some cases for thousands of years.There are things that pollute and destroy on a massive scale, much if which need not and much of which is not because of the industrial world but age old means of survival but for a growing population. Slash and burn is on a biblical scale in many places and has to be seen to be believed.Lithium mining and extraction though is rocketing for Electric vehicles and has far more serious consequences than fossil fuel detritus. Whole lakes in china are now so toxic that just putting a hand into it can make you sick.And yet the stampede to go electric ignores this.And then put into context what nature can do. Sometimes in a matter of hours, not years or decades.Fact is developed areas of this planet are increasingly over populated. Does that ever really get discussed? Not properly.But the developed world has been steadily reducing pollution, over use of unreplenishable materials for most of our lifetimes and this is increasing even with overpopulation.Even though we have Covid, people live much longer and healthier than at any time in history. The biggest jump is in the last 70 years.There have been all sorts of climatic changes all over this planet in it's entire existence. We are a tiny part of that existence. We also become more and more responsible but have to remain pragmatic. The excesses and greed have been the causes of catastrophes and some is part of the learning curve. We have probable reached the peak of that and the impetus has changed, no doubt these will continue but well get less and less.Nature though, might have other ideas.There have been long periods in these islands, of hot dry conditions, long wet conditions and cooler conditions, flooding and freezing, all post ice age and within the lifetimes of our oldest vegetation - trees. The climate shifts all the time. It's just that it has not done it much over the modern age of communications and industry.It's how we have hills, mountains and lowlands, peat bogs and marshes, sand mud and gravel, erosion, Ox bow lakes and almost everything we stand on.It also gives us the means to heat, eat and create. And expand on natures shortcomings. It's why we have medicine, and economies.Doing a bit helps, and in reality we do. We don't need fines and blockades and dividing community districts up and authorities screwing us for money under a banner of climate emergency.it's all part of our latest trend toy, Social media and communications which are abused to the point of manipulating and panicking the masses. Muddying the waters purveyed by salaried experts who have very little credibility apart for an eye for fiscal and career opportunity
Raymond Havelock ● 1805d