Climate Rant

Please excuse me a a rant on the same subject as yesterday's post, but that's what blogs are for isn't it? Partly?

Anyway, if the scientists (except Bellamy) are right, then it's bloody important. More important than any issue facing the world today. More important than famine. More important than terrorism. More important than the type of pretzel that George Bush chokes on. That's bloody important.

If they're not right, then we can all relax and go back to squandering the fossil fuels. All we have to worry about are the wars when the stuff runs out. The Americans will be on our side. And they'll win.

Personally, I think the scientists are right. I also think there is absolutely bugger-all we, or anyone else can do about it. Things have gone too far already. That's not to say that we shouldn't try, but nothing seems likely to succeed (including mass installation of wind farms. I actually agree with Bellamy on that point).

I have kids and like any parent, want a decent life for the ungrateful bastards, but it doesn't look hopeful.

So we make gestures: recycling our bottles; selling our cars; changing our lifestyles so that we're seen as cranks . Maybe, just maybe, this will wake people up. A pitiful hope.

At least we'll be able to say "I told you so".

I wish I was wrong, or had someone to convince me I'm wrong.