The momentum builds!

For as long as I can remember (and being nearly as old as Adam that's long!), people have been discussing the finite & delicate nature of our planet's resources. There never really seems to have been any genuine momentum, but is that changing now?

Whilst I look out of my window and still see people whizzing by in fossil fueled cars, my TV reports on another famine in Africa or some other distant part of the globe, and I still ache to help, and still feel as powerless as I did as a child. Power stations still burn coal, or do some scary magic with Nuclear pluto-unobtanium rods!

So, since my childhood in the sixties and seventies what's new? The cars look slicker, more modern, break down less, and are more efficient (although, thankfully, they don't look like the psuedo-rocket cars my imagination forecast aged seven!) we even see the occasional hybrid petrol-electric or the even rarer electric only car. Live Aid came along and Sir Bob and Midge helped us all to at least FEEL like we had helped a little. The TV I watch the news on is the one thing that looks most radically like what was envisaged for the future in the seventies. Wind farms have become a more common sight across the countryside, and coastline, but is momentum gathering?

A worldwide downturn in economic prosperity, it seems, has turned our thoughts towards saving resources. We are all looking to save money where possible, and energy costs being a principal household expenditure, it needs to be minimised.  A lot can be achieved by an adjustment to the way we go about our daily routines, you've heard it all before of course: turning lights off when not needed, not leaving TV, digi box, computer on standby. A well insulated home helps, it all does, saving a little here and there adds up in the long run. But how about a real change in speed, engaging second gear and feeling the momentum push us toward a less fossil dependant future.

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