Sun Day.
Like all overs on these fair Isles, I’ll be glued to the screen this evening as we watch the game. As someone who was born 9 months after West Ham won the World Cup for England, I’m one of those who have waited the longest for our next trophy. But even after all these years and being so close to realising that dream, I still can’t seem to get excited. Other than dipping into the PC and mowing lawns today my mind is elsewhere and not the football.
This ‘climate’ thing.
It’s getting to be more than just a concern and we need to look at what’s going on just across the channel in Europe. I saw a clip just last week of some bloke cooking a pizza just on the dash in his car. We used to marvel at stories about frying an egg on the bonnet of a car, but cooking a pizza IN A CAR! That’s another level.
Every day for the last year, heat records have been broken at a rate that we’ll look back on and say ‘what the fuck were we doing to allow this to happen’
Keep 1.5 alive they shouted on the build up to Glasgow COP and here we are, just a few short years later having been over 1.5 for the last 12 months.
Announcements by the new government are most welcome and can’t be enacted soon enough. The banning of bee killing pesticides needs immediate attention. No bees, no humans, it’s as simple as that.
On shore wind is needed. End of. No arguments. And Yes, in my yard!
Approval for solar farms, or Solar Parks as we prefer to call them, would not need to have happen if the previous government hadn’t slowed the progress we had started to make. Failure to target the commercial roof top space of this country, which could provide 50% of the Nations electricity would have negated the need for mega solar projects.
Which brings us nicely back to football.
The stadium that the final is being played in, is covered with panels. Coincidentally, they’re SolarWatt panels, our preferred panel supplier so whether we win or loose, we can be buoyed that the signs of a new World are there. Maybe a billion people or more around the world will tune in tonight and see renewable energy at it’s absolute finest.
I can only dream of Jarrod Bowen scoring the winner, but regardless of a win or not, I’ll take a billion ppl being influenced to go solar all day long.
SolarLove in the SolarNation
