Honey I Broke the Planet

[Matblack]

So, as we head into 2007 with flagship companies promising to completely change the way they do business to become carbon neutral an undeniable increase in UK tempretures, a decreasing polar ice cap and one of the largest countries in the world opening a new fossil fuel fired powerstatin every week, are we finally ready to admit that we have broken the planet? Can we turn around the changes we have already made and repair the damage or is it spiraling out of control?

I've been following climate change for a while, Heather and I recycle what we can, we use energy efficient light bulbs, we only have one car and I walk to work, we're probably average in the concientious stakes, but is it enough? It takes a lot of contientious yuppies to off set China opening power stations left right and centre, but then do we have a right to ask developing countries where having electric power in the home is a luxury to stop building powerstations? Can we really make a difference?

If I'm honest I'm not really THAT worried after all I don't have an electric car, I pay more in tax to keep a nice fast car which spews CO2 (I wonder if this is one of the causes behind the increase in inflation, as people pay more to keep what they have whilst knowing it polutes?). I can't be that worried can I?

What I wonder is what are WE i.e. the BD members willing to do to save the planet? Will we be the final generation who can live in the knowledge that we don't have to find a way off this planet which we have abused for so long. Have, behind the continious comments from the US that global warming is a load of old bull, they been developing a way to get off the planet or are we stuffed?

My opinion? I'm begining to think we've fluffed it, I suspect that our childern will have to make compromises because we can't do it, we're too self endulgent and love our big cars too much, we have the 'somebody elses problem' syndrome, after all what difference can just me having a 4 litre BMW X5 rather than a Honda Insight make in the grand scheme of things? None, right?

MB