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Of course there’s a totally different way to look at it , when we get an illness we take medicine to cure it , …. So what if the actual planet falls into the Gaia theory and is a living entity and we are irritating it , so we get heatwaves , earthquakes ( more and more frequently of late ) volcanic eruptions, storms ,hurricanes etc etc . It’s almost like the planet was trying to get rid of a virus … humanity
 
Can we do anything positive?

Personally I am vegetarian, not primarily for environmental reasons but reduction methane production is a good thing.

I'm very careful with recycling. I make sure what goes in the green bin should go there and it is clean and not mixed material things like removing plastic from window envelopes, no take away pizza boxes etc.

I do drive to work but I see that as being on my employers shoulders as I word work from home by choice. But I keep my car well maintained and it's an order car. The longer a car is in use the more the carbon cost of making it is mitigated (other opionons exist).

I don't buy the cheapest electricity I use a 100% sustainable supplier. They actually pin the price to the major supplier in my area so it's no more expensive.
I use Ecotricity (I also use Ecotalk for my cell phone contract) if you would be interested in using Ecotricity and you pm me I have a referral code which would save us both a small amount of money.

When I lived and worked in places suitable I cycled and used public transport. I also did a week long training course on bike repairs and volunteered at a free to use community workshop for a few years which was fun.

In summary you might want to consider
Eating less meat
Checking what can be recycled and how to "prepare" it.
Maintain your car fully
Perhaps cycle
Help out at a grass roots project to keep old things working cheaply especially if you have skills
Switch to a sustainable utility supplier

One thing you can do today is put a shallow dish of water out fir the garden animals, maybe not green but it's nice to be nice.
 
Tringa said:
And we also cannot ban entitlement.

Dave
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There was a phone -in on LBC today. about that 7.00pm government SMS .??... alert re not having BBQs,bonfires etc and whether it should have been used because ,it seems, it's for serious threats. Considering that several homes in Stourbridge have been destroyed by what started as a grass fire it seemed an appropriate use to me.

Anyway, I'v responded to your post because a caller said that police had received 999 calls reporting neighbours who were having a BBQ and one had a bonfire going where there was a large area of dry grass quite close by. Someone else was setting off fireworks in their back garden .I think your point re entitlement is a very good one. I hadn't thought of it like that. My thoughts just extended to idiots ,the irresponsible and an afterthought..those who just don't give a toss. fire expert said that embers can travel on the wind up to 23 miles and can still initiate a fire after landing on dry grasses or in woodland. Another caer said that yesterday, he was stuck in traffic on the rosd from Swindon to Plymouth snd people in cars were throwing cigarette ends out of the car window..not just the filter but a piece of burning tobacco. In Australia a caller said that despite its terrible record of fires people were still careless. Firework displays,other than official ones at particular venues are banned as are BBQs at certain times.
 
My view on where we are with entitlement/carelessness.

It's a bit disconnected.

2022. 18 houses lost in Wennington, to fire.
"Oh my god, what is happening, those poor souls."

2026. 38 houses lost in Stourbridge. 5 houses lost in Caerphilly
"Totally shocking! Something must be done!"

202x. Fires, blah blah blah. Some homes burnt. Blah Blah Blah.
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