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As Bayleaf the Gardener might say: complain all you must but you can grow bugger all without water.
For Your Information. You may or may not find it of interest. I came across this Youtube video which is in the territory you deal with and which uses drawings. They don’t have anything like your following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRFbKvV0u04
Ian,
I liked that video very much, the style is entertaining enough to capture an audience that would not read a long blog post. It only started in June this year so is still very young. Like you I have added a comment mentioning this website. Some cross-pollination would do no harm.
I get very frustrated at supermarkets’ unwillingness to do more about excessive packaging. My particular bugbear is toothpaste tubes inside cardboard boxes. Similarly breakfast cereal in plastic bags inside cardboard boxes. So much waste and presumably additional fuel to transport goods bulkier than they need to be.
@ Adam Furness
Cardboard is recyclable, plastic tubes are not.
If you don’t want the cardboard box, the manufacturers will probably have to increase the thickness of the plastic tube to protect it from accidental puncture when being carried home.
Same principle applies to thin plastic cereal bags inside cardboard cartons.
I agree with the points here but I also agree that we should make the investment to grow more crops in the UK for the purposes of food security. In essence we need to do both together.
Food security is about more than just climate change as the world is entering a worrying period of instability generally. In addition, even if the UK hits net zero this will not instantly make it easier to grow crops at home.
We still have sufficient rainfall in the UK as a whole to collect and distribute water as necessary but this will require massive investment to achieve. Given that we have now damaged our environment so substantially, and this will not reverse overnight, we really have little choice but to take this medicine no matter how painful it might be. We also need to be looking into advanced scientific ways to desalinate water on a massive scale.
The truth is that the powers of capitalism have made a huge mess and are now in a situation where we must tackle both the underlying cause and the immediate consequences simultaneously.
It is rather obvious however that the great powers intend to pay lip service to the first and do a minimal amount about the second until people begin losing their lives on a large scale. Even then their response will be insufficient.
Why would those who have already built their underground bunkers to protect themselves from the devastation their capitalism has wreaked on this world worry about the worker ants that they no longer need. They will soon be off to Mars in any case won’t they.
From what I can see there appears to be very little concern about the current very poor crop yields due to the current drought in England and Wales. It appears that climate scientists talk about increasing extremes of climate not increasingly erratic changes. This might suggest that we are in for a period of very wet winters and droughts in the summer which might severely adversely affect farming in the long term.
It is odd that no-one seems to be talking about the impact of this. The assumption is there will always be food.
What if there isn’t?
Precisely and it could also affect large parts of Europe quite apart from problems elsewhere caused by the Gulf War.