The Wayward Chronicles- And now for some good news...

https://youtu.be/qSwF-StQHSk

https://youtu.be/5HL1BEC024g

I don't know about you but I've had a long fascination with natural disasters, I know I'm not alone by the huge online community out there capturing,monitoring and speculating on them, all that science though and we still can't stop them from happening, despite our white knuckled grip on the controls.

The effects of climate change are all ready kicking us back with flooding, extreme heat, species extinction and unpredictable weather patterns. Have you noticed how wrong or vague the media weather reports are these days? It's because the weather is behaving outside of all predicted computer models making it impossible to predict ahead of time anymore.

Grave predictions of the rise of violent natural disasters such as super volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis that will drown coastal cities, are everywhere when you research the oncoming effects of climate change.

And they may well be right and quite frankly, I think we deserve a good punch in the face from the planet that most of us have thoughtlessly ruined in a very short space of time. I don't wish for innocent people to suffer the consequences but actually millions all ready are in the thick of it,
 when you look at what's really going on in the world, so more of the same before we claw it back seems horribly inevitable.

Mega Hurricanes & Donald Trump's administration aside, however, amongst all these dire outcomes, there are some huge,positive changes happening in the world right now. 

Watch the great episode of Viceland above and the TED talk by Taylor Wilson and you'll be blown away by his genius solutions to clean energy, all be it feeling like you totally wasted your teenage years...

+Elon Musk  crops up everywhere, thankfully, these days which means what he's doing is working.He has invented many solutions using clean energy that are slowly filtering out into the mainstream, may he nail them all & get us out of this mess.

The Women's march on Washington, inspired by opposing Trump, was echoed around the world when over a million women took to the streets to protest for human rights. Trump is proving to be perhaps the exact catalyst required to get people to change, almost a necessary evil, his repugnant face is like a sharp spike prodding us to get up & stand up for what we believe in. The world should not be in the hands of misogynists. Only good things come when women gather peacefully to change things. Women rights have never seen such widespread support, there is a long way to go in some cultures, but as more women get a voice it empowers others, that's how we roll.

The global powers that be are actually making clean energy changes, but being in such unprecedented times no one knows if it's too little too late.What did strike me though,whilst watching the Viceland   Clean Energy documentary, was that this situation has almost developed at the right time, if there could ever be a right time for destroying our natural resources... When Nuclear power was first touted in the 1940's we obviously didn't have the knowledge we have now, in order to fully utilise it's potential in a safe way. Nor could we pay such attention to the value of the earths resources.

 Now thanks to the information & development age we live in today we can quickly build on these discoveries ( hello,err, the windmill...) with advances in technology we never dreamed of in the 1940's and, like the Trump catalyst, perhaps it takes us a brush with some natural disasters to really consider what's best for the environment and make those changes.

What also struck me was that the argument for green energy is driven by a somewhat skewed demand for a life style that has a huge need for energy but saying that, my kettle is boiling,the heating's on and my mac is plugged in and in the scheme of things I'm low impact, so they have a valid point. 

But I can't shake the sense that actually,wouldn't it be better if we moved toward a society that just used, less? 

In another programme on +VICELAND  - 'Abandoned' Skater Rick McCrank travels round America visiting ghost towns & defunct buildings (dream job) charting the history behind their demise in an interesting way. The episode on Newfoundland resonated on so many levels but what struck me is that the residents who had voted to stay, had been forced to leave anyway, as the government had cut off their power. 

That seems more like a Hunger Games tactic than a civil right to me Canada, I always thought you were better than that...but can we really not exist off grid anymore? Millions of people do but they probably would choose power if they could afford it & had access.

The economies in these ancient fishing ports had been completely ruined in the space of twenty years by commercial trawler fishing and then the outright ban on any fishing,devastating for communities founded and thriving on sustainable fishing long before greed leapt into the water.

But today I have good news.The ban of fishing on the island has led to signs of a rebirth in stocks and now the residents are allowed to fish recreationally again at certain times of the year with sustainable fishing a reality again in years to come.

As my geography is rubbish, I did some research on Newfoundland and it turns out to be located at the most easterly point in North America, on a pretty similar latitude, from a glance to the UK.

To get to my off topic point, there are tons of empty houses sitting on the rocks on an island not dissimilar (sadly no warmer though) to the UK. It's roughly half our size and yet boasts a population of HALF a million to our 60,000 million and it's beautiful & unspoilt and I promise I'd keep it that way if the Canadian government would see fit to let me move there.

Friends, I know the Mongolian commune idea was a bust (cheap but cold) but I'd be well up for a move to Newfoundland.Google it and let's charter a boat...

Veganism has risen 350% in the UK in the last ten years, led by the 15-34% age group who cite their reasons as being a reaction to modern farming methods that are cruel to animals and the effects of mass agriculture on the Earth. I gave up eating all meat, cows milk & fish after watching +Cowspiracy  and am trying to have more vegan days than not and it's remarkably easy,even to a kitchen hater like me,in fact it's definitely improved my attitude to food & how I consume groceries.

If the whole world went Vegan we could solve world hunger five times over. ( A problem that will only get much worse as the impact of climate change ramps up.)

The terrible plight of our wildlife has never been so obvious and yet again, come on humans, it's taken us to get to a crisis to act to save the flora and fauna. Most of us could plant some kind of a bee garden, grow our own,stop eating unethical food and support those who work at the coal face in conservation. 

Another thing I realised when watching Taylor Wilson explain about energy

 is that chain reaction is an inevitable part of the make up of life on Earth. Keep being the change we need to see in the world and we are seeing results, masked away behind the convenience of fear mongering, good things are happening.

Start today at grass roots and watch how it grows.

Love & Peace.