- Robert McLean
Posts on our Beneath the Wisteria blog have just
passed 3000, with the first being posted early in 2012.
Much, but little has changed since then.
In that relatively short time, the climate change
conversation has gone from being contested, in many cases vigorously, to now
being broadly and widely accepted.
There have been significant advances in terms of what should
be done – international agreement arising from last year’s Paris climate talks
is an indication of that – but the way of life in the developed world which is at
the root of the trouble appears to continue unabated.
Many scientists and academics have spelt out where it is we
are going wrong, why and what we need to do in response, but the world’s
leaders appear to lack the courage to make the necessary changes needed to
preserve humanity.
However, I suspect the trouble, the reluctance, rests not
with just our leaders, but the wider population for any serious effort to
counter climate change will demand that we (and that is all of us in the
developed world) willingly opt for significantly different standard of living.
Ideally, contentment will not be guillotined, but many of
the comforts we now take for granted look to be threatened.
And so although we can recline in comfort arguing that until
our governments act, we will do little, but sadly that is a falsity that leads
only to sweeping difficulties.
Our governments, of whatever persuasion, will not act until
you and I step forward and tell them we want them to act and plan to counter
climate change.
Below is the first post on our Beneath the Wisteria blog:
Tom Blees has a
Prescription for the Planet.
He recognises the
fact that the earth is ill and in a privately published book has put together
his prescription.
Writing in praise of
the book, the Director at Plasma Research in the US, Louis J. Circeo Jr., Ph.D.
said: “Tom Blees has embarked on an important journey to launch a Global Energy
Revolution. This book brings together the most important technologies of the
day to counter the effects of global warming and looming energy crisis”.
Blees book is
accompanied by the website that helps readers understand what he says is a
painless remedy for energy and environmental crisis.
On the book’s back
cover it says: “Global crisis, like climate change, pollution, and resource
wars simply cannot be managed by the same systems that created them. The
unprecedented severity of these problems demands a new world paradigm that
actually offers solutions and promises a better life for all.
“Prescriptions for
the Planet offers real remedies for all those dilemmas-and more. Impeccably
researched and lucidly written, this is a must read for anyone concerned about
the health and well-being of Planet Earth and its inhabitants.”
