I like the ‘think globally and act locally’ catchphrase and I like the idea that each of us can make a difference. We’re all thinking human beings who can control our own destiny and I believe that we can also make a positive contribution to the environmental future too.

1. If the rapid change to climate we are witnessing is due to human activity and we fix it, we’re OK.
2. If the rapid change to climate we are witnessing is NOT due to human activity and we ‘fix it’ we’re still OK and as a bonus we have cleaner air, sea and soil.
3. If the rapid change to climate IS caused by human activity and we DO NOT address it, we are in deep doo-doo!

The cost of becoming carbon neutral is unknown, but I feel that if we directed all the energy and resources we found to face up to political threats like Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Saddam, the Taliban, you name it, we could be carbon neutral within a few years. But we won’t. Why?

Because we are being told constantly that the economy must take precedence over such concerns as climate change. That should not surprise us. For most of us, we now live to serve the economy where logic tells us the economy should exist to serve us!

Billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent and will be forgone in carbon taxes as we prop up big polluters like coal miners, aluminium smelters and oil burning car manufacturers while we starve emerging green industries.

All we can do about that is write and vote, and I am delighted that you, as a writer, have kicked off this vital debate in your blog at the personally achievable level you have. Well done.

Implied also, is a recommendation we partially withdraw from the industrial economy in small ways to recapture more natural, healthy and socially rewarding ways of doing things while reducing our carbon footprint. ‘Thinking globally and acting locally’.
Amen to that!

Re climate change, maybe you’re right and nothing much can be done about it now. But I like to think that there is hope and that the sum of many small changes by people all over the world could make a difference. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain for our children and grandchildren.

The suggestions in this post for small lifestyle changes may be personally beneficial and are appreciated by this follower to that extent. Not sure, however, if the natural timetable for geologic cycles of worldwide heating and cooling can be significantly slowed or accelerated for a long term by manipulation of any existing human activities. Still, we are divinely inspired to be good stewards of the land

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