Looks like they are building a coal powered power station in Kent. Greenpeace labelled it “dinosaur technology” which is bang on the money. That’s another dim idea from the bunch of idiots that run the UK. Coal really isn’t the future and if this government wants to tackle climate change they are going to have to ‘think outside the box’ and not come up with nonsense like this.

At the moment I am fairly partial to chocolate ginger nut biscuits. They have become somewhat of a Sunday treat. Trouble is, I stuff them down my throat in about ten minutes and then all the biscuits are gone and I’m sad. It’s a classic case of over consuming, and the problem with Sunday where I live is that all the shops shut early so once the biscuits have been eaten I’m left without. I guess it’s my own fault for being too greedy and I have nobody else to blame. When I was young my mum told me not to stuff my face, but did I listen? Heck no. Anyway, what am I banging on about then, where is this leading to? Oh yeah, what are we going to do when the oil runs out?

A term that is bandied about frequently is ‘peak oil’. What does this mean? Basically peak oil is the point when maximum petroleum production is reached. After this point the production rate starts to decline and the price starts to rise if demand is not met.

Now, all these rather optimistic people who say that climate change is a myth and isn’t going to happen could have a point, because as we as a global audience stick our heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t going to happen, we also seem to be doing exactly the same thing with regards to how much oil is left. Any then what? No oil means no cars because nobody seems to be making much effort to find a replacement fuel, and no cars means a massive reduction in CO2 so that’s global warming ‘fixed’.

Back to Peak Oil, some pessimistic people say that we have already reached peak oil production (which would be bad), and the most optimistic people say that that we ‘could’ have another 100 years until we hit this point. The general consensus is that we will reach this point at about 2020 – 2030, but we don’t really know for sure. So, I ask again, what are we going to do when all the oil runs out?

For humanity it’s crunch time, and it’s going to be this century that is going to make or break us as a species, because if we do not start taking some responsibility for the environment and the way we live our lives and if we don’t put monetary gain second to social responsibility then we’re pretty much doomed. The oil is pretty much gone, but nobody seems to mind.

Bandwagon jumper or eco-evangelist Tory, David Cameron, (you decide) has announced a new idea, initiative, what have you, to (if the Conservatives came to power) encourage home-owners to make their own energy and sell it back to the energy companies.
All good in theory, but industry experts say that we are at least decades away from this in the UK, although apparently other European countries seem to manage this. Basically the cost of providing the equipment to allow home owners to do this is expensive and the return on investment takes many years so we in the UK do not really have the stomach for it, where as in many European countries the individual attitude is different and they routinely recycle and have a better grasp on environmental issues.
What I would like to see is the current government and any superseding government take the initiative and come up with a solution to make, solar power, wind power more economically viable for Joe Public, who can’t at the moment afford a couple of thousand pounds to stick a wind turbine in their back garden. Frankly in the UK many of the population struggle to do any recycling at all, let alone can comprehend generating their own energy unless there was a seriously good incentive for them to do so and frankly with so many people struggling to pay rent/mortgages/council tax it’s a big leap of faith to presume we’ll all be able to rush out to buy a windmill, whether we would like to or not.