The Edge of Destruction

Watching the Green planet, about our fragile ecosystems, once so mistakenly thought to be self-correcting, and listening to the politicians, who jet to their meetings about Climate Change - and can't see the incongruity, makes me sad. 

We have no real plans for transition. Even the plans for renewable energy resources are hopeless because we have insufficient technology to store power, and phasing out petrol in favour of electric cars doesn't even consider simple things like enough charging points for ordinary people. 

Workable solutions are thin on the ground, while large scale promises are made without a realistic idea of how to implement them. What we need is the same kind of drive that brainstormed and fixed vaccines, or, in an earlier generation, the driving initiatives that allowed man to reach to moon. 

We need to bridge the gap between the intellectual argument and the practical technology needed, and that will require skill, expertise and the best project managers to take it forward, and bring everyone, or nearly everyone, on board. In the meantime, we recycle and can in other small ways do our bit for the planet.

The Edge of Destruction

Green Planet, balance, fine tuned
But when the balance is broken
As Earth suffered a great wound
We need far more than a token

Politicians, meetings, plans and talk
Jetting about over climate change
When it comes to it, they just balk
Contradictions: not perhaps strange

Land dries, forest fires burn hotter
And cold winters bite the bones
Tower of Babel begins to totter
How fall the mighty from thrones

We face the edge of destruction
And far too much obstruction.