Menosill8ting - A Digression

This week, I'm taking a break from the 'memoir' posts mainly because I want to move onto posts about festivals now, and the timing will be perfect then.

Anyway, I had also got this burning a hole in my 'pending' file and felt today was the time to air it.

That, my friends, is a rant from the comments thread on the subject of climate versus the fossil fuels lust of the human race, as found in The Guardian last week. Didn't keep the article; there are many such which any of you who care will undoubtedly have seen in your own preferred news sources. Hopefully. The thing is, all the articles and posts (including this one!!!) do nothing, in the end, to actually change anything. Or do they?

Could it be that each and every drop in the ocean of words helps to create a flood - a point at which the 'water of change' is inescapable and inevitable?

I loved this response (and the heated, though thoughtful, exchanges that hung from it); this is a commenter on the same wavelength as myself. Many others too, I have no doubt. A deep cultural shift is required for true change to come about. Each and every one of us who understand this need to live it in our own lives. Minimise the plastic, eliminate food waste - or if we must, at least compost it - travel responsibly, upgrade vehicles if we must own one, to at least hybrid if not full EV - but be aware too that there is still an environmental cost.

Manufacturing a mid-sized EV with an 84-mile range results in about 15 percent more emissions than manufacturing an equivalent gasoline vehicle. For larger, longer-range EVs that travel more than 250 miles per charge, the manufacturing emissions can be as much as 68 percent higher.

Food for thought...

Of course, once made, there is no denying these vehicles are better overall. And improving all the time.

This is not an advert or an affiliate thing. I was simply following my nose down the rabbit warren of the webules.  It sometimes comes to me that having a vehicle again might be beneficial to the old YAMster, so that she doesn't have to be so bound to the Hutch. However, aside from the ongoing 'stabling' costs for keeping such a creature, I really do wonder at the keeping of one standing in park for maybe 90% of the time. These are luxuries for the majority of us.

Of course, one could always live in one... hmmm... Hutch on wheels... the YAMster's wheels... spinning her wheels... but I need kitchen and bathroom space. I'm of an age, y'ken. How about a bus conversion? Love that colour. Strip it out, hook on the solar and wind generator. Swap out the diesel for full EV driving... upskill the licence...ah but remember to buy that lottery ticket you keep talking about... oh yeah, that's how the brain gets gone sometimes...