Good morning.
Sunny again. Maybe we can cast off our winter garb and pull out the summer frocks.
My thoughts. . . . . .
This is the Britain that I would like to keep. Fields and villages with plenty of space to roam freely. No windfarms, no solar, no concrete. I have always said we cannot stand still we have to move forward. But when you can look into the future and see which direction it is all going the prospects are looking pretty grim.
Those with all the money are on a mission to change everything. I now think we should be backtracking. Restoring things to how they were. It will be messy, but we have to try or there will be nothing left for future generations.
This is an interesting post Ilona. I share your concerns, but I am more optimistic about the future of the countryside of our beautiful country.
ReplyDeleteI don't envy those in power who have to make decisions about where we get our energy from. Regardless of what anyone of us thinks about global warming, the present situations in Ukraine and Iran illustrate that we shouldn't be dependant on foreign powers to supply us with what we need.
Wind farms and solar farms might be cutting edge now. Technology moves on. In 50 years time they might all be gone and the sites returned to nature. When I was a child the Thames was a 'dead' river and you took your life in your hands if you attempted to walk along the collapsing bank of a disused canal that was choked with silt and thick with shopping trollies and rubbish. Today dolphins swim up the Thames and canals are leisure areas for families and corridors for wildlife. Two of my favourite nature reserves used to be heavy industrial sites. Today they are beautiful, peaceful, quiet places. Kestrels had almost been wiped out by DDT and red kites had been hunted to extinction in this country. Today I can stand in my garden and see both.
There is hope for our countryside, Ilona, although sometimes (given the way it is currently treated) it is very hard to feel that way about it.
Whilst I appreciate what Tracy is saying, the adverse impacts of wind and solar on so many aspects of "nature" mean that pursuing it the way that Mad Ed is, is insanity when there are far less destructive alternatives.
ReplyDeleteWhy, for a government claiming to be so desperate for tax income, is North Sea oil and gas being deliberately run down, when it could generate substantial tax revenue, and avoid the additional CO2 costs of imports? Why isn't nuclear being fast-tracked as a dense, land efficient electricity generating technology with a much lower CO2 footprint that either wind or solar?
Why are we being driven into the arms of the Chinese for so much of our infrastructure (wind turbines and solar cells predominantly come from there) when the claim is a need for security?
One can only assume that the powers that be have been captured by enemy forces and are acting as fifth columnists?
Agree with you Will.
DeleteTrue ilona 💯 I'm fed up of politics 😒 especially trump sik to the back teeth of hearing about him.. we have to be in our own Bubble world find ou own Happiness 🫧 🫧
ReplyDeleteLevi xx ♥️ 💕 ❤️..sun's out today mother . ENJOY 😉
They just want to wreck our country. We have to try and stop it. Just say no, I ain't doing it.
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