Suburban Chimp is an eco-blog and eco news source, which likes to throw out an inconsistent voice about eco issues. Why so inconsistent? We believe that there are two sides to every issue and we are prone to change our minds, go with the wind and basically show to the world that we aren’t stubborn or set in our ways. For example at the moment we’re dead set again certain issues, such as nuclear power, gm crops and the expansion of Heathrow airport to name but a few things that matter to us, but show us some consistent, decent information based on facts and figures that do no solely revolve around money generation and then we will show you a wavering voice from an eco-perspective. This is good and bad for us all, but it is the way it is right now, but again we may change our minds when it comes to this too. Lets just wait and see, shall we?

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We hope you have come here to get some stimulating eco news and opinion, and what’s more we welcome your views on the topics we write about too. Disagree with what we’re saying, think you have some decent facts to back up your opinions, then we say, bring them on and let the party commence. One thing we are sure about is that humanity is at a crossroads and there are some serious decisions that need to be made to maintain the future of us all. Whether any decisions will be made by the people with power remains to be seen. There are an awful lot of people out there who are thinking only about themselves and how much money can make, they are surly the most hedonistic if not selfish among us, and unfortunately the ones with the say and the cloud. However, just like ‘pester power’ can get mummy and daddy to buy young Wayne a new toy, so can the pester power of the masses nag our governments to sit up and listen to what we have to say. The beauty of the Internet is that it allows us all to have a voice, and if that voice is important to a lot of people then it becomes something that cannot be suppressed.

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Once it was a surely difficult task to discover anything about anything, you had to go to a library, you had to do serious research, you had to buy magazines and ask people. Basically, information wasn’t such an easy thing to get hold of, we were told what we were told and we believed what the large media organisations had to tell us. Now, there are a 15 millions blogs in the UK alone, each with a voice, each probably not attracting a great many visits, but some cut though, some become something more than just one of the 15 mill. Maybe Suburban Chimp will get there; maybe it will just be a collection of thoughts of a few like-minded individuals that remain online for a bit and then evaporate into the nothingness. Maybe. If that’s the case, at least we’ve stood up and slung a bit of mud around and we can feel self righteous, and all be it equally doomed when the world around is tears itself into little bit sized chunks of processed nothingness.

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Suburban Chimp loves the environment, it likes the world, it isn’t so keen on all the people in it, as for the most part the Suburban Chimp is just as it says, a creature that people find amusing, set in the confines of an urban/suburban environment. Why doesn’t Suburban Chimp like people? Well it does, it just doesn’t like nasty people who are selfish, which is the crux of the problem, 99.9% of humanity sucks. My cat also has its moments of being a bad cat, but since I only speak 10% pigeon cat, we guess things get lost in translation. We speak 100% people and therefore we are continuously being disappointed. Occasionally there is a glimmer of hope, a glimmer of niceness from a stray person who has nothing to gain. You know, one of the most selfish people Suburban Chimp ever met was a religious man whose faith’s doctrine seemed to go against exactly that. Go figure though the Suburban Chimp. Cutting to the chase- we’re going to say things that people do not like, well for us that is OK because people say things we do not like, and then we write about them here and have a good laugh, or cry about it. Mostly cry. Mostly cry indeed.

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Welcome to Suburban Chimp environmental blog, with a splattering of social commentary, we’re all here. We’re all here for now; long may it remain the case.

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Have you noticed how the longer someone talks for the more insane they sound? Generally people sound fairly normal at the start of a conversation like, ‘Hi my name is Paul and I’m an environmentalist.’ all perfectly normally talk unless you are a politician, and then they follow on with, ‘and I believe that global warming is going to melt the ice caps and the sea is going to rise, we’re most likely going to drown, and even if we don’t then the northern hemisphere is much more likely to turn into frozen tundra and then we’re all going to need more than a fleece and a woolly hat…’ and you all think he’s a nutter. Why is that exactly? This environmental blog is the same, the more we write, the more outlandish we become. If there is one mantra that we would like to be regarded as: we put the mental in environmental.