Has it really been six months since I last posted here?
I have been really busy lately, writing training manuals, answering queries from fellow cleaners and in between running my carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I have also been getting increasingly annoyed at hearing comments like "Me recycling a few bottles is not going to save the planet".
How can people be so blinkered?
It's not about saving the planet. Planet Earth will survive the current trend of climate change. It has survived far worse in the past - including the cataclysmic event that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, a few ice ages and sundry other major upheavals.
Whether the undeniable changes that we are currently seeing are part of a natural cycle or not, we do, at least partly, understand the mechanism of change. We do know approximately the quantities of greenhouse gasses that human activity is contributing, and logic dictates that whether that contribution is a causal or contributory factor, continued pollution at the same level is not the wisest course.
There are vested interests commissioning misinformation about what is happening and the probable prognosis. Yet even if the propaganda of the 'Just keep burning that oil' lobby is partially correct the inescapable truth is that the effects of the changes are already upon us. As sea levels rise the threat to low-lying land massed increases, threatening a reduction in the inhabitable and food production areas. At the same time human populations expand - the world population has about doubled in my life-time. The demands for food and living space will become increasingly difficult to satisfy. Perhaps we could turn to the seas to satisfy some of the increasing demand for food but increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is leading to raised oceanic acidification, the impact of which is already being seen on marine life.
So "......recycling a few bottles" is not needed to save the planet. nor will the best efforts of an individual will not halt nor reverse the changes that are already all too obvious. But cumulatively the efforts of many cannot fail to at least slow the progress.
A wise man once said that when finding yourself in a hole where you do not want to be, the first thing to do is to stop digging!
I have been really busy lately, writing training manuals, answering queries from fellow cleaners and in between running my carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I have also been getting increasingly annoyed at hearing comments like "Me recycling a few bottles is not going to save the planet".
How can people be so blinkered?
It's not about saving the planet. Planet Earth will survive the current trend of climate change. It has survived far worse in the past - including the cataclysmic event that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs, a few ice ages and sundry other major upheavals.
Whether the undeniable changes that we are currently seeing are part of a natural cycle or not, we do, at least partly, understand the mechanism of change. We do know approximately the quantities of greenhouse gasses that human activity is contributing, and logic dictates that whether that contribution is a causal or contributory factor, continued pollution at the same level is not the wisest course.
There are vested interests commissioning misinformation about what is happening and the probable prognosis. Yet even if the propaganda of the 'Just keep burning that oil' lobby is partially correct the inescapable truth is that the effects of the changes are already upon us. As sea levels rise the threat to low-lying land massed increases, threatening a reduction in the inhabitable and food production areas. At the same time human populations expand - the world population has about doubled in my life-time. The demands for food and living space will become increasingly difficult to satisfy. Perhaps we could turn to the seas to satisfy some of the increasing demand for food but increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels is leading to raised oceanic acidification, the impact of which is already being seen on marine life.
So "......recycling a few bottles" is not needed to save the planet. nor will the best efforts of an individual will not halt nor reverse the changes that are already all too obvious. But cumulatively the efforts of many cannot fail to at least slow the progress.
A wise man once said that when finding yourself in a hole where you do not want to be, the first thing to do is to stop digging!
