While counter terrorism police waste their time investigating known Extinction Rebellion supporters and school strikers reported by their teachers, the real terrorists travel into the heart of London, mingling unnoticed with ordinary commuters on buses trains and tubes. They wear no badges and carry no placards. They do not have suicide belts spoiling the shape of their smart jackets. These hidden terrorists spend their days working for the breakdown of society, by investing people's savings into the fossil fuel industry. The "terror" of the risk of one's bus being diverted because of a crowd of school strikers demonstrating for action to slow climate change, or a few extremists padlocking themselves together or gluing themselves to things; is a minor and short lived "terror". The terror of advancing climate disruption bringing drought, fire, flood and crop failure, with the resultant starvation, mass-migration, and wars over water and food; is a real, intense and ever-pervasive terror.

Changing Modern Diets Joel Baccas and Madeleina Kay (written in 2018)

More and more people in the EU (particularly the youth) are adopting a healthier and ethical approach to their eating habits. It is therefore, entirely reasonable, that food producers/retailers adopt a mandatory simple labelling system that indicates the suitability of food products for different dietary types. Alerting consumers to the type of ingredient, animal or plant based, will allow them to make better choices. This is especially important in light of the multilingual nature of the European continent.

I have a serious issue with beans; soybeans, fine beans even vanilla beans. I know what you are thinking and contrary to popular belief the issue I have isn't with the effects of eating additional fibre. No, my issue is about how green an option they really are. To be fair my issue doesn't solely rest with the legume family, they are just the better known of the criminal enterprise that can masquerade as 'good for us'.

COURAGE

Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion at World Web Forum 2020 talks to 5% of his audience,
the outliers who have courage -
"Values dont mean shit: what counts is courage, the courage to put values into action, unless you act they dont mean anything."
"Courage is not 'not having fear' but deciding there is something more important than fear , this massive headfuck beyond imagination threat we have on the climate."

Not taxing carbon is a bit like trying to reduce smoking without taxing cigarettes.

A comprehensive carbon tax on all fossil fuels, collected at the point of production or
import, uses market forces to go to the root of the problem of CO2 emissions. Raising
the cost of carbon is very cost-effective at reducing CO2, encouraging both energy
efficiency and the use of low-CO2 energy. It applies to all sectors, including heating,
industry, electricity generation and transport. To keep this document relatively short,
some issues have been omitted.

Extinction Rebellion say we must become carbon neutral in five years, but the Centre for Alternative Technology propose ten years, while the Committee on Climate Change say thirty years is good enough to avoid seriously damaging climate change.

Officially, the UK has reduced Carbon emissions by about 40% since 1990, but Greta Thunberg says the true figure is only 10%. So, what is going on?

CAT 's report on Zero Carbon Britain was updated in October 2019.

There's a new Zero Carbon Britain Hub and Innovation Lab at CAT to help communities, local authorities and policymakers to create Zero Carbon Action Plans, and to provide support for the development of innovative solutions.

They hold many great weekend courses, Architecture, EcoRefurb, Permaculture, Buiild a Bird Box ,Build a Shed, etc, and are open for day visits with many exhibits and a bookshop.

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What will we say to the child at the gate ?
We knew what to do but we left it too late.

For decades came warnings of how things might be
If we poisoned the land and the air and the sea.

But very few listened or took a world view
And many just argued and said "it's not true"

With data uncertain and room for debate
Few would agree it might soon be too late

Oh yes there were meetings and many words spoken,
But what they produced was merely a token

The goals were not binding, the targets too low,
Despite urgent warnings "we'll reap what we sow"

Now the window is closing; the time we have left
Is so close to midnight - our world is bereft.

Just what will it take to get leaders to act,
To all work together - a vast global pact.

For all other problems will rapidly pale
If our life support system should falter and fail

It's bold action that's needed, so send out the call,
Each country must help from the big to the small.

I'm sat here writing this on Tuesday the 18th of February 2020 as my account of the impact of flooding on Worcester as I have seen it, living on the St John's (western) side of the River.

To give a little bit of background I live in a modest flat in a converted merchants town house which overlooks the River Severn and the Pitchcroft Racecourse which I moved into in 2011. I have always felt very lucky to live here, but never quite so grateful as now, given that the building I live in is well above the river levels brought by the flooding. This has obviously given me an excellent vantage point to observe the river and racecourse which is, in reality, a flood plain used most of the time for leisure activities including our annual beet festival, circuses and other activities as well as racing.