Well, upon looking through the Greenpeace website yesterday, while doing a bit of research, I was reminded of all the cool stuff they've done, and, pretty much why I'm a member. During my little forage, I can across a link to a website : www.blogactionday.org  ...
"Well" I thought "that's tomorrow!". So I decided to register and join in. So, here we go. Blog Action Day!
Basically, the idea of today is to raise awareness of our enviroment and why we should take care of our planet.
My particular musing on this was "What can one person do? Is it worth it? Have we already killed our planet?".
And, once again, I found myself reading through the Greenpeace website. Well - that pretty much answers the first question. Greenpeace is the result of lots of "one person"s put together. On Monday they took over a coal power station in Kent, in protest to Gordon Browns seeming "green light" strategy to polluting the planet. That takes some guts. Not only that, it takes a lot of care as well. Greenpeace activists put their life on the line just trying to make the world better for us all. So, maybe you don't fancy doing that? Well, there're plenty of other things you can do. If you were to replace 2 light bulbs in your house with energy efficient ones, not only would you save £30 a year, you'd create 3 cubic tonnes less carbon dioxide every year. So once again, that leaves you on your own. Wrong. Let's say 6 people see this blog, and change their light fittings, already that's 18 tonnes less carbon dioxide. Now, combined, every blog on Blog Action Day, takes around 30 million veiws. Maybe only 1 million of those veiwers will take action on what they read, but still that's a reduction of 3 million cubic tonnes. Gettting the jist now?
Is it really worth it?
I mean, by the time anything serious starts happening, we'll be dead, right?
Wrong.
In the next 5 years we WILL start drastically noticing the effects of climate change.
I suggest, along with the other 6000 bloggers postng today, that we all start taking this seriously. I mean, is it really so much trouble to switch the heating down by a degree, or turn off a light? If we carry on like we do, live will not be so convenient.
Have we already killed our planet?
I'll be blunt here: possibly.
But that doesn't stop us trying to make it better. Perhaps, when we start getting tornados ripping down the thames, or snow falling in Egypt, people might start taking global warming seriously.
People refuse to help with the effort to reduce climate change becuase of "money" (no names mentioned, America) or simply because they can't be arsed. I feel ashamed to be human, if that is indeed what the human race dictates.
Maybe tomorrow, you can walk out of a room smiling, having turned a light off. I know I will.

Yeah. Right.
I spent five minutes last week literally crying with laughter after David Camerons speech to the conservative party conference.
More specifically, his approach to gang culture and behaviour in the UK. Which seemed to be "I'm going to stop the gangs! Just like that! All you need is love! and lots of money .." .
I work for my local Childrens Rights Service, through which I end up sitting through countless meetings and seminars where some bright young spark has come up with suggestions like "If we just pump it full of money, it'll go away" or "they have nothing to do! Build the poor lads a youth group and they'll all play happily together and not shoot each others heads off!". Or even one councellor who came up with the gem of "Send them all back to Africa where they came from". I should note, that I actually asked him to leave the meeting becuase of that.
Waltham Forest (my local authority) recently commissioned a bloke from some university or other, to compile a report on the cause of gang culture in London. Yes, he did it. Came back and presented it to the council. They, and the media lapped it all up. However, when our team analysed it, we found that most of the information was incorrect. Such as gang names, the reasons people join gangs, the number of people in each gang, the amount of gangs, where they were getting there weapons from ,etc.
We were able to do that, because we are young people. We know what happens out there better than any adult ever could. Amazing, isn't it, how a team of dedicated young people can pretty much pull a 50 page report to tatters?
And, that is the way forward. Gangs won't stop being violent simply becuase some kind soul builds a youth shelter or starts a youth group. It's down to the young people who get involved in gangs, and those who know them, to gradually slow it down. Yes, authorities would never use such tactics, because it puts young peoples lives in danger. But I can tell you now, it does work. We've tried it (off the books of course), and it worked. It's time that society in general started to wake up to the fact that young people should be listened to and valued just as much as a guy with a PhD in social science (or whatever he had), because, more often than not, young people know the things that adults won't. Such as the "grass phenominom" where, the police in their upmost naivity tell young people to come forward and divulge information about gangs and drug suppliers, under the promise that they'll be protected. 38% of these young people end up either shot or stabbed within the next two weeks, a further 9% of these will die from their injuries.
That's my rant for today, in stark contrast to whinging about mobile phone masts.
Do think about it, and take it seriously, trust me, it may safe you one day.