Earwicker wrote:

simmo wrote:Whatever you do - don't mention global warming!

It has struck me that through hours and hours of footage of old people and dogs in boats I have heard hardly a mention of why this might be happening with more and more frequency.

Now I know there is much talk of Global Warming in the press - I'm sure there was some pop concert harping on about it a few weeks ago - but you'd think amongst the hours they have to kill wittering on again and again about the absence of anything happening - beyond the initial storm - they could fill it with some debate about who is primarily responsible for this sort of thing.

That is - large scale industry and - drum roll - ourselves. It'd be instructive to go round all these flood victims and asking how many of them do anything - at all - to try and minimise their carbon footprint. And if not will they now?
And if any of them protest about renewable energy farms (this goes on a lot, I believe, in the South East) and will they continue to do so now?

This would make for interesting telly. Much more interesting than asking someone where they're taking the cute little puppies they're carrying.

Who gives a flying fuck about that?

daniel robert chapman wrote:These floods in southern England have been all over the news, almost constantly, since Friday. It's only two weeks since floods of similar scale in Hull and South Yorkshire, where people died, were bumped off the news after a day so that coverage could be given to the threat of rain at the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

I'm not imagining this, am I?

A woman, presumably carrying a hockey stick wrote:"Liana and I were trying to get into Oxford, we had to abandon our Volkswagen we just couldn't drive any further; but we got picked up, we were going to stay in this huge barn in Shrewsbury, but we ended up in the humongous, random, mansion somewhere! It was legendary, and such an experience!"

daniel robert chapman wrote:On the radio right now:

A woman, presumably carrying a hockey stick wrote:"Liana and I were trying to get into Oxford, we had to abandon our Volkswagen we just couldn't drive any further; but we got picked up, we were going to stay in this huge barn in Shrewsbury, but we ended up in the humongous, random, mansion somewhere! It was legendary, and such an experience!"

I'm not sure how many more reports I can stand from this 'disaster zone' from people who are "fine, actually!"

Tommy Alpha wrote:Although you are right about individual carbon usage, it all pales against that of the industry of nations. The fact is that unless governments and businesses make real changes, the majority of the public wont as very few people view it as an individual responsibility (rightly or wrongly). An event like this will always highlight hypocrisy and ignorance but its the hypocrisy of industry and big business that is the most shocking and profound. I don't believe there'll be anything more than vaguely concessional changes while we live in a system of global capitalism, and if that is the case then people's own carbon usage (or lack of) and new sustainable energy sources will make nothing but a small dent...