Thursday 19^th October 2006

This evening I went to see journalist George Monbiot launching his new book Heat: How to stop the planet burning.

His statistics were terrifying, but in what for me was quite a new and exciting way. He pretty much took as read that disaster was imminent, and concentrated instead on illustrating how poor our attempts to combat it were. Did you know, for example, that of seventeen million UK homes with cavity walls, a mere six million have insulation installed in the cavities? We really are rubbish, especially when cavity wall insulation is the kind of change which will pay for itself in a matter of not very long because it’s so cheap and makes such a huge difference to a home’s heat loss.

People are lazy, apathetic idiots. We are all screwed.

By way of not being a lazy, apathetic idiot, I was incited to a small amount of activism in that I have created a climate change section of this website. It currently has an introduction, and will shortly include some articles I wrote a while ago re-hashed slightly for their new home. Hopefully my laziness, apathy and idiocy won’t kick in before it gets any further.

Talking of things deserving a nationwide campaign (or indeed tenuous links), a friend of mine was informed by a cash machine today that this week is “National Identity Fraud Week”. Since this was the first I’d heard of this (and it’s now Thursday), I feel it is my civic duty to inform you good people of this sanctioned crime spree inviting you to steal credit cards, passports and other personal effects in to criminal ends.

Just try to be carbon-neutral while you’re at it.

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