THE PLANET SPEAKS

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What’s on: A post inspired by a ReadWritePoem prompt. Have you had a go yet? … PLUS … Lots of links to posts of interest. After reading the main feature, why not come back when it’s quiet? This is a magazine, not just a post!
SAVE THE PLANET - Or you’ll be sorry!

THE PLANET SPEAKS

I am! I exist! There was light and all,
and then there was life, bold and tall;
Maybe it was God, or a primeval stew,
that placed the heavenly breath in you

No matter how I really exist,
I’m here to thrive, and always persist;
You think I’m a mother, caring and true,
but I’m also an avenger, it’s true

I thrive because of diversity,
for every which way, life will be,
From oceans to land, and air you are,
creatures and plants, with nothing to marr

The beauty of this jewel in an otherwise dark space,
an expression of life as a delicate lace;
Always in balance, as it should be,
expressed as being in harmony

Until those damned humans began to build,
technology; and to run it, for oil you drilled;
Then came pollution and CO2
turning the air into a putrid glue

Sunlight trapped, warming the sky,
and slowly the life I love begins to fry;
Your industries spew their heinous brew,
weakening life! Oh! do I hate you!

My diversity you attack. No restrain,
everything wanting to be the same;
From society, to religion, and nature, too,
nothing can be different, or good, or true

But there may be a simple shock in store,
for sameness and pollution, I abhor;
I get even! I survive, I always do,
in the end you’re only harming you

Of that there is absolutely no doubt,
slowly, slowly, you WILL die out;
I might even start to degrade your sperm,
after all,
that’s the best way,
to treat a germ

(c) Anthony North, March 2008

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GREEN SCENE

INTRODUCTION

Green Scene is an occasional magazine post on the environment. Here, you will find links to some of the posts in my archives. Always relevant, it will feature the latest news comment and theories of mine on the environment.
We are told that we must save the planet. This is, infact, totally wrong. The planet, and nature within it, will always survive in some form. The danger is not to the planet, but us. Being eco-friendly protects ourselves.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Pollution - The facts behind the problem, and what it means.

The First Spirits - An examination of ancient religion and nature.

BIG BIZ

The main threat to the environment comes from Big Biz. Slaved to fossil fuels and big ’systems’, the culture they produce is ravaging the planet, and leaving us with lives that are little more than serfdom.
There is another way. Encourage smaller businesses. As well as being more accountable to you, they could use ‘new tech’ which is friendly to the environment. Big Biz, we all lose. Small Biz, we all win.

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THE WEATHER

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What’s on today: A poem inspired by a ReadWritePoem prompt. Have you had a go yet?
… PLUS … a few essays on Green issues from my archives. Enjoy.
SAVE THE PLANET - or you’ll be sorry!

THE WEATHER

We love our weather, it’s no joke,
without it we’d most likely choke;
There’d be no air without the weather,
best to keep it, for our endeavour

In many places, it’s taken for granted,
usually where the same climate’s planted;
but in my Britain, it goes from sunny to bleak,
that’s why about it, we often speak

The atmosphere is the key to it all,
Earth has gravity so it don’t fall;
It orbits the sun, our friendly star,
not too near, and not too far

If closer the air would burn away,
animals and plants wouldn’t be able to stay;
Further away, and the air would freeze,
that would be chilly, if you please

Forecasters tell about the weather each day,
although at times I think they prey;
We’re often suspicious of what they’re selling,
it’s no better than fortune telling

Climate can affect our mood,
when electro-magnetic waves intrude;
they affect our mind, can make us morose,
it’s no coincidence in storms we see ghosts

The weather gets worse as the planet warms,
bringing those evil, vicious storms;
Cars and factories spew carbon out,
of climate change, there’s little doubt

Apocalypse can be our eventual fate,
beware of this before it’s too late,
comets and bombs, those nasty things,
nuclear winter comes on angel’s wings

So know the weather, it’s our friend,
unless we abuse it, for it can lend,
a different world we can’t defend;
We’d have to call it, then,
the end

(c) Anthony North, February 2008

FROM MY ARCHIVES

ECOLOGY

We are aware that we should be Green - that we are polluting the environment and heating up the world, but many people have little understanding of ecology and the science behind many green issues …
… read more …

GREEN REVOLUTION

A lot of people have heard of the Green Revolution, but few know what it is. Even when a person does know of it, it is unlikely they know the implications of the subject. Here, in the raw, are the facts, and the implications …
… read more …

GLOBAL WARMING BACKLASH

WELCOME TO GREEN SCENE - the Magazine Post on the Environment
What’s on today: Scepticism concerning man-made global warming is gathering steam - unfortunately … PLUS … a few essays on Green issues from my archives. Enjoy.
SAVE THE PLANET - or you’ll be sorry!

GLOBAL WARMING BACKLASH

A movement against man-made global warming seems to be growing on the internet, and I think it will gather steam. Reasons seem to vary.
On the one hand, many westerners fear the politics is an attempt to redistribute wealth to the Third World, whilst others think it is an attempt to reintroduce ‘collectivism’ - the new socialism.

In doing so, they’re naturally only looking to the evidence, and conclusions, they want.

Thus, man-made global warming becomes an absolute scientific lie, and we’re all being hoodwinked by a dictatorial consensus.
Now normally I hate the idea of consensus. But maybe this is the exception that proves the rule. But just what is the science? Well, it’s a concept, and a concept can never offer an absolute truth.

Global warming is about probability and long term trends.

Even the IPCC only give it a 70% probability. Similarly, long term trends have chaotic short term variations. Hence there will be periods of cooling within the trends –which are greedily picked up by skeptics.
My commonsense approach to man-made global warming is that the probability is high enough to take sensible precautions just in case. So what should we do about the skeptics?
Maybe realize that it is about politics, which has two sides. By doing so, we realize that the move against warming is more to do with countering characters such as Al Gore, who certainly has me worried. Not about warming, but political opportunism.

© Anthony North, January 2008

FROM THE ARCHIVES

PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE

Ecology is different to science in that it is holistic in nature. What do we mean by this? And does it hold a lesson for science itself …
… read here …

VANDALS OF THE PAST

Industrialists often claim that their damage to the environment is a process people have always indulged in. Even in the past, people caused environmental havoc. Is this true? Even if it is, can it be excused? Indeed, did it have a purpose …
… read here …

FORGET THE DOOMSTERS

WELCOME TO GREEN SCENE - the Magazine Post on the Environment
What’s on today: As an anti-global warming lobby grows, let’s not let them use incorrect doom and gloom from the past … PLUS … Are we really advancing technologically? What is bio-diversity?
SAVE THE PLANET - or you’ll be sorry!

FORGET THE DOOMSTERS

I’ve recently had cause to be reminded of all the doom and gloom predictions concerning the environment and global warming from the 1970s. The reason I’m reminded is that an anti-global warming lobby is gaining ground.
Predictably, they are looking back to those predictions too, and rubbishing the entire subject because of them. And the simple fact is, those predictions of catastrophe haven’t happened, and arguably it would not be that bad anyway.

We need to rationalize just why those predictions were made.

And the first obvious point is that, whatever the subject, the fanatics and nutcases will thrive. This has been the case throughout history.
But these are the exceptions. Most people involved in any one subject are moderate, their ideas sensible, their arguments rounded and compelling. But there is one major problem regarding their message.

The media is not interested in them.

When a new idea is born – when new evidence presents itself of a major change in knowledge – the media is only interested in the sensational. This is the way they sell their product, which is their main concern.
And because of this, the fanatics always seem to rule, and the message is taken totally out of proportion. As the anti-global warming lobby grows, we should remember this as they laugh at those ridiculous doomsters.
But also remember this. The media likes the sensational. So maybe the extreme global warming sceptic is simply repeating the process, giving us only the extreme view, while the majority remain moderate, and sensible.

© Anthony North, January 2008

FROM THE ARCHIVES

STAGNANT TECH

We are told we live in the technological age. Throughout the modern world, technology seems to make life more comfortable, and inventions appear almost daily to increase our survivability and quality of life. But just how advanced IS this technological world? Further, could the entire idea behind this tech be purposely held back, and in being so, affecting our chances of survival on an environmentally ravaged planet …
… read more …

BIO-DIVERSITY

Bio-diversity is a term to explain the huge variations in nature. It is a simple fact that neither evolution nor nature could thrive if all options were not explored. Life on Earth is the result of a mixture of all possibilities …
… read more …

GREEN SCENE - Issue One

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In this issue: Counter force to man-made global warming gathering pace … PLUS … All about saving endangered species. What’s pollution all about, then?
SAVE THE PLANET - or you’ll be sorry!

HOT AIR AT BALI?

The Global Warming Conference at Bali is well under way, with the United Nations attempting to set the roadmap for the agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol. And as I take a look around the blogosphere, the counter-movement to climate change is gathering pace.
Many people are beginning to reject global warming as man-made, preferring climate change as a natural cycle, or not at all. This is for several reasons. First of all, they say the science is not good enough.

This is quite true.

Science can never prove any concept absolutely. Even the IPCC only give man-made effects a 70% probability. But to me, that is enough to provide caution, suggesting we get on with the job of lowering emissions.
But most of all, people are beginning to distrust the UN, sure that a conspiracy is afoot to place a political agenda on global warming and redistribute wealth from the Developed to the Third World.
Sadly, this IS an intention of the UN. There is no conspiracy involved. Thus, people’s suspicions are maybe correct. But surely this should mean we should work harder to remove the environment from politics, and not just reject a danger out of political spite?

(c) Anthony North, December 2007

POLLUTION

Most people think of pollution in terms of the smog of the 19th century, or low-lying ozone from car exhausts, leaving a summer haze over cities. Alternatively, they are aware of the rise of asthma, possibly due to pollution. But the problem is much worse …
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE ANIMALS GONE?

The planet is facing a massive reduction in animal species. Almost daily, some species becomes extinct. Some of our most beautiful animals are in danger of extinction. We occasionally raise a campaign or two to try to ease the problem, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much good …
… read more …

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