SmartLeatherbag "Planet is fucked anyway. Seriously, we've had it. Greens can't reverse it now."
So that's it, you're just gong to lie down and die?? Do you have kids?? I''d guess not.
The situation is dire yes, but there is still hope. We could yet, if there was enough will, turn this around. I am actually seeing more grounds for hope now than I have for a long long time. The UK is certainly not playing the part which a) I would like it too and b) it really morally ought to, we are going to be left as a morally corrupt backwater owned by foreigners and our own beautiful island fucked, but thankfully although Britain bears more responsibility for this age of the world than any other single nation imo it is not itself the world.
Consider: the price of renewables is comng down. It is becoming more and more financially viable to install panels on individual roofs. And more people, admittedly in shitty unequal UK only the rich,have done so and are considering it. I've even heard my family consideringit on cost grounds and they're as capitalist as they come! In Germany there have been drives from cities to take back public ownership of energy grids in many cities, so that they can shift to renewable, and the are doing so. On one summer's day last year there was enoughrenewables to power their whole country. China, of all nations, the one we owe so much to for our past exploitation, is investing heavily www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32119463. I am always disgusted by those who would blame Chinafor the worlds' ills, it is the worlds workshop because we have exported our shit there and we should be doing everything in our power to repay our debt, but they're doing it all by themselves anyway (and in the process will claim a richly deserved world leading position). There are grassroots movements to divest stocks of oil and gas - the major cause of global warming - among universities and towns in the US, even a few here,and communities around the globe are fighting fracking, tar sands oil extraction and other extreme oil and gas extractions as hard as they can and are frequently winning. They are dong it to protect their local environments, but with all of those little protections they protect the whole.
The problem is the central governments and their total disconnection from reality, from what most people actually want, continuing to enrich themselves no matter what the cost to both other people and the planet (yes those two agendas are irrevocably tied together).
And we have this chance now in May to start turning Britain around. If this is not the world you want to see,i if you want an improved ecosystem left for our children and a better fairer more supportive society then get out there and bloody vote for it.
I share the concerns of others about the greens and the status of women, but my own conclusion right now is that we need need need more of their views in in power now and we could all join the green party tomorrow and work for change from within. They do seem the group most inclined to. listen.
It is vital. The next 2/ 3 years are going to be crucial. I've seen research that says we have two years to really pull down the damage we're doing, to keep the global warming at no more than 2C. Two questions: do you want Britainto play a part or continue to destroy itself? Or are you just going to lie down and die?
Well that was long and excitable. All true though.