atomic_joe2

"If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy". - Rick James.

So last weekend the enviromorons tried again to break into one of Britain's biggest coal-fired powerstations with, one assumes, the ultimate aim of shutting it down. And then they wondered why the coppers got a bit rough with them. Wonder why that could be? Perhaps because they were, you know, doing their job and preventing criminal damage as well as saving these idiots from serious injury while trying to operate heavy machinery?

Do these planks actually understand what would happen if the world suddenly stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow? In the latest studies, the amount of people the world would be able to support due to having no petrol to get food supplies out and about and having most power-producing equipment laying idle because of a lack of fuel to run it, would drop from 7 billion people to around 2 billion people. So we can assume that complete anarchy would ensue, civil war after civil war would erupt until the world's population dropped to a more manageable level.

Countries would cease to function either as coherent units or coalitions. World War III would likely follow as the world battled for control of scarce resources. And this would only be the start. We can expect the human race to descend into barbarism and possibly even cannibalism as society broke down completely and the mayhem intensified. Humankind could simply not cope with such a radical shift to greener energy overnight.

Of course it would be great to end our reliance on oil, not least so we didn't have to appease such human rights-denying regimes as Saudi Arabia. And we can all agree that poisoning the air is A Bad Thing. We can make a start with this with technology we already have like hydrogen powered cars. But on the whole it will be a slow and boring process, going green. As opposed to a quick and horrifying one. And as for global warming...didn't these self same people also say the Y2K Bug would kill us all?

Peace be upon you,

Sir_Red_Joe.

"Some things are too important to be left to the private sector". - George Galloway.

I have noticed recently that the year 2050 is being mentioned quite a lot. Normally with regard to the alleged climate change or with regard to issues of food supplies or other apocalyptic predictions. Apparently, for example, the Earth will need an area the size of three planets to sustain the 10 billion people there will be by 2050.

So lets assume for a moment that half of these doom-laden predictions come true. By 2050 in that case happily, I shall be dead. So we can also safely assume that this generation will probably be the last to have relative luxury with regard to energy, peace and abundant food supplies.

After all, the oil has already started to run out with Hubbert's Peak having been almost certainly reached in the opening years of this century so we can expect conflicts to occur on a regular basis after about 2050 for increasingly scarce resources such as this. As we know, the world as we know it runs on the stuff.

So while things might occasionally seem a bit stale and stagnant now, after 2050 they might see this as a golden age of sorts. Strange though it might seem, this may be something of a peak for Western civilisation. The last time when everything was there when you wanted it. Weird, eh!

Peace be upon you,

Sir_Red_Joe.

"Live 8 is just private jets for climate change". - Matt Bellamy.

Right on, Matty Boy. I don't particularly like your band Muse (though commendations for filling the 'Radiohead before they went weird and stopped writing commercial songs' niche) but you're spot on. In a week where the third runway for Heathrow Airport has been rubber-stamped by the Government, we've had all manner of celebrities and professional whingers (sorry, middle-class protest groups) protesting the Labour Party's decision. Which is fine, of course. The right to protest is one that I am forever in love with for its the evidence of freedom. But not when the blatant hypocrisy of the protestors is conveniently forgotten and we're expected to be too dumb to notice.

Take Emma Thompson for example. She's one of the climate change fretters who's bought some of the land needed for the project in order to apparently stop the development in its tracks. Then she's seen at the Golden Globes. Did she get there under her own steam, in a kayak perhaps? No. I'd say she jetted into Los Angeles for the ceremony. Probably from Heathrow Airport. And all these posh dickwads from the pressure group calling itself 'Plane Stupid' (good use of a private education there you fuckheads, well worth the ten grand a year!). After bringing Stansted Airport to a standstill while they sat on a runway and bothering the Old Bill with their shallow publicity stuntage, half of them jetted off a couple of weeks later with Mummy and Daddy for a xmas in Barbados! Spot the double-standards, people!!

I love good honest protests by those who, y'know, actually practise what they preach. Like Brian Haw who's been holed up in a tent in Parliament Square since 2001 in a one-man demonstration against firstly the US and UK sanctions against the Iraqi people and then latterly the catastrophic invasion of that nation and Afghanistan. THATS believing in your impulse, walking out on normal life to dedicate your existence to highlighting injustice and the killing of innocent civilians by economic restraints, fighter-jets and cruise missiles. Not getting back in your 4X4 when the weather turns a bit nippy. We can ALL learn something from this most noble of men. Here's a link. Do yourself a lemon and check it out:

http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/

Peace be upon you,

Sir_Red_Joe.