Saving the Planet

I always feel a continuous and unenviable guilt about the lack of "green" living I undertake. Yet, now the option has been made easier for me, I do recycle, I do turn off my lights, and I did spend 5 weeks living in South Africa with endangered beasts of many shapes and sizes, trying to improve their lives. Well, that or I was counting the number of plants in a 10 meter square swampland. Tics anyone?

Even now, I am sipping water from a bottle that will eventually completely corrode in my mouth (www.belu.org), helping save the planet, even if I should die of chemical poisoning along the way.

Yet, somehow, it doesn't seem enough. How can I, one small person (mothers genes), make a difference to a planet inhabited by 6.6 billion people (see the world population), many of whom don't even know what the ozone layer is?

Depressingly, it is those living in the most poverty that cause the smallest emissions of dangerous gases. If the Western world doesn't grow a pair soon, we'll all be wallowing in a deep, dangerously toxic, cow pat like mess.

Whilst the government seems completely uninterested in approaching this at anything exceeding snails pace, luckily there are some people who seem more open and willing.

So, if in London, or heck, anywhere in the world, why not do the right thing tonight and turn off your lights and appliances from 9-10pm. Visit lightsoutlondon for more information.

Of course, when the world is decimated from a nuclear war sometime in the next couple of years, this will all be a moot point.

We can but try.