Wind turbine

We have one in the village. It's the only one at the moment and organised by the community - or at least part of it at least. I'm neither for or against it - and certainly don't go as far as Mrs Up Yours does. I mean, I'm from Bath Spa don't you know.

However, what with the biosphere's highest CO2 measurements just been recorded and mans production of CO2 constantly increasing, we have at the very least to be seen to do something. My argument - complicated as it is - is based around the fact that we have a totally unsustainable over-consumerist capitalist society which, as it currently stands will aid its own destruction along with the biosphere's ability to sustain us. Yes, there are too many people of the planet. Yes, we all use too much energy, expect to fly from here to there at will, eat non-seasonal food all year round and so on. I could go on but I won't since you'll all be clicking off this post soon. And no, I don't think the soviet state had the answers. And no, politicians in the main are more interested in their own careers than this subject - and have to be by the nature of our British system. Particularly where economics is supposedly the most important aspect of life by far.

But I do think the Dalai Lama talks a lot of sense.