'environment' Category
Products… do we have too much choice?
The Nurse has been watching a lot of telly recently. And she’s been amazed by the sheer choice of products available for consumers to choose from.
She’s wondering whether there’s a connection between all this choice and climate change?
Here are two off the cuff examples. Do we really need:hundreds of different kinds of shampoos, conditioners and hair products?
countless different car marques?
Viewed objectively, [...]
No Driving License or Passport? In the UK, You’re a Non-Citizen!
You’d think with global warming continuing apace, a person who didn’t drive or fly would be respected. Not so.
The Nurse applied for a loan recently, only to find that everyone thinks she’s dodgy as fuck. A criminal, money launderer, illegal alien, ID thief or worse. She has experienced all sorts of hitches, running the gauntlet of suspicious solicitors, edgy lenders and paranoid financial advisers.
Why? Although The Nurse’s [...]Good News About The Environment – Six Top Eco Stories
It isn’t all eco-doom and gloom. Here’s some good news about the environment…
Although fascinating, The Nurse’s weekly copy of New Scientist magazine rarely brings positive news about humanity’s rapid descent into global warming. But last week’s issue was different.
It looks as though things might be changing. The Nurse wonders if we might look back at the first ten years of this century - with the benefit of [...]Politicians Won’t Go Green…
… it’s our job to slow climate change
As the global warming tipping point looms closer, The Nurse becomes increasingly pissed off with politians.
They’re procrastinating like people possessed. All over the planet.
On reflection she acknowledges that politicians will never be willing to sign up to strict environmental targets. Unless we make them.
Politics is all about popularity. Strict environmental policies require big cultural changes. Fundamental things that hit almost everyone where it hurts most. Not necessarily [...]The Nurse goes imaginary walking
Some people have imaginary friends. The Nurse goes imaginary walking.
Before being banged up The Nurse was a keen walker. She’d stride the South Downs Way twenty shining miles at a time, drowning in the spiralling song of skylarks. She’d push her lithe body up the soaring crags of Langdale Pikes. She’d wander the Cleveland Way collecting owl pellets and smelling sun-dried heather. And [...]Levy a Carbon Tax on fossil fuels? Yes!
FREE MONEY
The Nurse likes the sound of free money, even though there’s bog all to spend it on in a Secure Unit. And doing the environment a big favour at the same time makes carbon tax sound even better.
A carbon tax taxes the use of fossil fuels. So the user, whether they’re a business or an individual, pays for what they [...]
