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- East Dartmoor, Devon
It should be noted of course that if wood became a commonly used fuel again we will see the soils in wooded areas become chronically depleted of nutrients as people wont think to put back what they take.A good and worthy post JP, and it's a relief to see other folk are at last waking up to this great green movement which has far more to do with preserving and multiplying the profits of big business than it has to do with saving the planet.
I have been banging on about the futility of electric vehicles for long enough now. They are another obvious sign that it's not about the environment at all, we are being conned into cars that are likely to have just as large a carbon footprint as conventional vehicles without a minute's thought as to alternatives to fossil fuels or highly damaging batteries. They are out there as I have repeatedly shown, but nope, it doesn't accord with the agenda of big money and big technology, which are pretty much one and the same thing.
Politicians are a lost cause, totally hopeless when it comes to assessing and and evaluating the conflicting interests within society. Their major skill set is in getting elected and progressing their careers rather than serving the interests of those who vote and pay for them.
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to talk to Sean Kelly, an Irish MEP, at a farm open day where the main item of interest was the use of forestry thinnings as a bio-fuel. He was rather boastful of the fact that he wants to see home heating oil outlawed, but when I put it to him that carbon can be recycled as a liquid fuel as much as it can a solid fuel he, for a brief second, looked stunned, the thought had obviously never crossed his mind, nor, presumably had it been discussed in the corridors of Brussels or pushed by the various lobbyists. The following day I put this all into a polite email along with one or two other concerns and have yet to receive a reply.
As you say, the west faffing about with windmills and batteries will have no effect other than to line the pockets of big business. Every protocol has failed, if we are serious about anthropogenic climate change then we need to start extracting carbon, I'd go further and say we can recycle some of that carbon as fuel, it's how nature has managed energy for billions of years, why should we know any better?
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