It’s the first week of April, winter sports starts on
Saturday and it’s another balmy day in Christchurch - 21 degrees, t-shirt
material.
In fact we have had close to six months of summer here.
I love it and I want to thank the countries like China, India
and the United States of America for emitting so many CO2’s into the
atmosphere.
It’s thanks to your obstinacy Christchurch is bathed in glorious
weather.
Nor do I care a hell of a lot about the future of the
planet.
I will be long dead when and if the shit hits the fan,
Christchurch becomes the Venice of the South.
The hard reality of being a human-being is we mostly have an
innate lack of empathy for others outside our immediate village.
Ostensibly we leave our money and problems to our kids.
In short: ‘why should this generation be the first one to
care about the next?’
Does anyone in Russia honestly care about New Zealand any
more than we care about them?
Have you run into anyone who has said “I worry about the
future of my great grandkids”?
The daily grind of earning enough money to eat, get shelter
stymies empathy for most of the planets populous.
They watch catastrophes from overseas on telly then switch
over to The Simpsons muttering “I’m glad it didn’t happen here.”
Only the rich, scientists and civil servants have the time
to worry about global warming.
India is building a coal-fired power station at rate of one
a week yet New Zealand has enough coal for our own entire energy needs for at
least three centuries and in a grand irony we can’t burn it here in commercial
quantities but we can bulk export it so it can go up the chimney in China!
Realistically what individual can do anything to stop
weather change?
Besides who would want to stop the weather getting better?
Not me!
I’m getting an old fridge and smashing it to release all
that ‘goodness’ into the atmosphere.
This songs sums up my position succinctly.
