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Climate Law

It should be obvious that to achieve an adequate reduction in CO2 emissions, we shall need to change our lifestyle. If we were able to confront that reality, we should appreciate immediately that it cannot be done by legislation.

Only by making it real to people that climate change is going to happen, unless we act to prevent it, shall we obtain the requisite desire for change, of sufficient magnitude to be effective.

One obvious way forward will be to find a sufficiently powerful motivation for change. Such as take a holiday from work. We all look forward to a holiday and if we could see a holiday as a real life saver, a holiday could be a runner, instead of Climate Law.

In order to make a national holiday into an acceptable method of reducing CO2 emissions, we must first realise that the way we live at the moment, is in the midst of a war. A war is in progress and will continue indefinitely and last for ever and no prospect of peace, unless we act correctly to end global-warming.

We all pray for peace and object to the possibility of being at war and yet we fail to notice that we are at war. A much dirtier war than armed conflict. A war of attrition, with no holds barred. No Geneva Convention, no decency, no respect for human life and with millions dying of starvation and of preventable disease. This is commercial warfare caused by cut-throat competition, inflicted upon us by being given credit as our sole source of currency. Bankers have been issuing new money as credit for over 300 years, until we are now enslaved by debt and working for the Company Store.

If we only had to work for ourselves, our family, our friends and neighbours, life would be a holiday, compared to the frantic, frenetic and frenzied rat race which we now run. When a child dies of malaria or hunger in a distant land, send not to ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. We are all in this sorry mess together, and it does not have to be. Poverty is man made, money is man made, a surfeit of one and a dire shortage of t’other are both man made.

Bring commercial peace, allow prosperity to replace poverty and we can rest on our laurels and allow the planet to cool. No pain to anyone, save to the money men and fear not, we save them from roasting in hell.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB