The guy with the spliff says…
Occasionally, I post up comments which deserve a wider audience. Here’s Sid Whitworth, talking about why we need a recession to combat climate change:
“I will be campaigning at this year’s Big Green Gathering under the banner: Global recession - the only solution to global warming.
I have been campaigning on environmental issues for three years and have come to realise that government and local council efforts to curb carbon emissions have totally failed. Renewable energy and fuel efficiency initiatives have also failed. Friends of the Earth are now a corporate-friendly group with few ideas other than continuing to extol the good of recycling (waste continues to grow) and using low-energy light bulbs (energy demand continues to grow).
Past experience has shown that it is only during recessions that emissions dip.
You cannot build your way out of climate change. You can only cut back and use less. Sorry guys. It’s a fact. But what politician is going to promise you less, hard times, unemployment, other than Churchill?”
This is the guy last heard of standing for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. We’ll trust his remedies for the big problems of our day, then, eh?
