Re: Ecocide Crimes Against Humanity

[Soo Chapman]

Brilliant headline letter today; thanks so much Jeff,

   Yesterday's Cllrs' letter in the Echo pointed out how well the Unity Alliance was managing financially before the change over to the latest embarrassing administration who seem to be landing us in Private Eye on a regular basis!    Disastrously for us all,  and despite some pretence and fine words, do not seem to be updated on the extreme seriousness of the Global Incineration Event now proceeding at enormous speed to the detriment of All Life on Earth.

 Disgracefully there is NO PUBLIC INFORMATION PROGRAMME for our safety  in place on BCP's website/ Facebook page nor on the websites/Facebook pages  of our MPs. 

 There are very many things that could now, late as it is, be put into place to give us a chance to Salvage and Survive.  Where are the necessary range of zero carbon options?  WHERE IS THE PLAN?

 Disrespectfully, despite emergencies having been declared, we all remain extremely vulnerable to the frightening pace of change visibly taking place.  Affecting farmers, growers, international harvests.

 Mother Nature continues to be bombarded by the deadly energies madly still being permitted,  adding fuel to an already incendiary atmosphere.    Do BCP really want more heath fires? This is despite the recent BBC 2 documentaries  showing how dirty energies knew of the harm they were doing to us all FIFTY YEARS AGO.

 How is this permitted? 

 It is our money being used to destroy us. 

 Reparation is overdue!

 Cretinous disrespect of our life-support systems must not be allowed to rampage unchecked as the biosphere disintegrates. 

  The public remains ignorant too of the immorality of the CFC debacle and whale industry destruction.  Both dreadful industries seeing off our planetary oxygen.  At least Mrs Thatcher was a chemist who could foresee the dangers of planetary overheating!

  I would very much like to hear back from our representatives as I just DO NOT BELIEVE fine promises about improving the environment.  Disintegration is becoming very visible indeed. 

  I include some evidence from a colleague concerning better ways to manage harvests as well as from our wonderful organic Riverford producers below. 

  And below that, some evidence about the debt we all owe to those who were insulted, gaslit and ignored as the CFC crisis threatened to overwhelm us all.  Thank goodness for Greenpeace (whales & oceanic oxygenation) , for the hardworking Rowlands team (CFC damage) and for the British Antarctic Survey (CFCs causing ozone holes). 

  And my thanks now to you Jeff and many others copied in here determined to keep dear old Mother Earth breathing despite the gross acts of incompetence and deceit to which we are unhappily subjected!

 Many thanks,

   Susan 

WATER AND FOOD PRODUCTION:   Since privatisation where have all those needed extra reservoirs gone? 

  

A return to seeing & managing the world more sensibly e.g.

https://www.treehugger.com/how-future-proof-garden-6385712

Riverford tell us: 

Crops lost due to lack of pickers

£22 million worth of fruit and veg has been left in fields due to lack of pickers as labour crisis adds to water shortages.

Read more

 

Drought lessons from Central America

Indigenous agroecological farming practices can teach us how farming can adapt but may not be enough to confront serious drought, writes Nathan Einbinder.

Read more

Minimal ploughing to combat drought

It’s a hard job to grow veg, even in a good year – but the thing that gets you through is the purpose; you’re feeding people, writes grower Leah Harris.

Read more

  The - Ignored for about 10 years- Rowlands' team evidence on dangerous CFCs. 

In addition to their Nobel Prize winning work showing that CFCs break down the Earth’s ozone layer, Rowland and Molina were key in convincing scientists, policymakers, and the general public about the harmful effects of CFCs. Their unprecedented advocacy ultimately led to the phasing out of CFCs worldwide through the passage of the Montreal Protocol in 1987. The research of Rowland and Molina brought worldwide attention to the impact of human-contributed pollution on a planetary scale. Their work was among the first to directly effect a global shift in policy, preceding the current debate on climate change.”

—Kenneth C. Janda, professor of chemistry and dean, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine

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Subject: Ecocide Crimes Against Humanity

 

"You need Cllrs and MPs one and all to come on board and be proud of an offshore wind farm - playing our part, carrying our weight, in this enormous global struggle."

The people of BCP and Dorset overwhelmingly support urgent substantial changes taking on climate change now - not in some mythic future.

No opportunity offers us more potential for bringing in huge quantities of clean sustainable energy for decades to come than an offshore wind farm.

Bournemouth Echo : Bring back Navitus wind farm ..

No country in the world could more benefit from immeasurable volumes of free wind energy sweeping our coasts.

We are so fortunate and yet we have a brigade in council circles led by Mike Green, Jon Weaver, John Beesley, MP Conor Burns, and others who prize without reservation the tourist industry - doing vast environmental damage to our towns - whilst condemning a benign clean energy wind farm far out at at sea as a "threat and danger to our towns".

This now has to be listed Ecocide Climate Crimes against Humanity : refusal to face up to and take on carbon driven climate extremes destroying our world.

Mike Greene : how can you tell us Cllr Greene that seeing-off the wind farm is one of your "proudest achievements"?



Where is the wind farm threat Cllr Greene? 2015/16 was on all the facts massive hysterical over-reaction.

The turbines nine miles out at sea will not be heard along the shore. Absolutely impossible. Why else do you think Rampion has been running eight miles offshore Brighton for five years, and another forty wind farms around UK, and tens of thousands world wide, on-shore and off-shore?

And visibility of masts - nine miles out at sea. As said so many times a matter of fact vanishing small on the horizon. And so stunning we had for over a year 200,000 ton ocean liners a mile or two off-shore swinging on massive anchors - entirely blotting out the sea-scape and horizon - and no-one in the conurbation had a word to say. But turbines - ten miles out sea - the view from Mike Greene and others life as we know it in BCP will come to an end.



And the Jurassic coast - are we to take this seriously? Cliff formations that have been in place for 150 million years surviving global geological changes are all going to fall down as we have wind turbines ten miles out at sea.

It is the deepest of regret Cllr Greene we do not have someone in your position who's "proudest achievement" is taking a lead to bring in a world class offshore wind farm. That would be impressive - a proud legacy for any Cllr or MP.

Jon Weaver - So its okay Mr Weaver to bring in a dozen and more thunderous 105bB military jets for mass entertainment pouring out vast quantities of carbon and sulphate pollution over our towns but an off-shore wind farm - all but silent at six miles less than 15dB - would be to our town a threat to life as we know it?



It wouldn't be the other way round would it Mr Weaver - not to bring in the wind farm plays a major part in destroying our world, our lives, the lives of our children and grand-children?

Take a thousand Weavers and Greenes and Burns and Beesleys in our country we would have no on-shore or offshore wind farms would we.

And some credit to PM Johnson on this one - one issue he and his government have strongly supported.

FT April 2022 : Johnson aims at five-fold increase in offshore wind energy.

And the rest of BCP Cllrs where are you all on this issue and climate?.

Change.org - petition to open up public debate for an off-shore wind farm

Well said Cllr Slade your postings on the Change.org page - spot on.

Well said Cllr Farquar your support for the petition. There may be other Cllrs

All this said the time has come BCP Cllrs in my view and I believe in the view of the general public you need to make your views known.

You are either taking climate seriously - accept we have to take hard decisions and make sacrifices - and support the offshore wind farm. Or you stand against it. The time for hiding in the "group" has to be over.

No other major project can remotely match an offshore wind farm for making a vast difference - GWatts of clean energy in the local grid for decades to come.

Costs have dropped massively the past six years. On and offshore wind energy now - by far - the lowest cost energy we can generate. And it is our energy - not under the control of other  countries.

Record low price for UK offshore wind energy - eight times cheaper than gas.

And finally Cllr Greene - Cllr Mellor - give the people of this conurbation a referendum on the whole issue.

And lets run it on facts - not wild speculation. The fact Rampion nine miles offshore Brighton and another forty offshore farms around the UK are running with no hysterical backlash as we had in BCP 2015/16.

I spent five years in the offshore oil industry North Sea. it is a filthy and of course mass polluting industry but no less I am very proud of British maritime shipping and offshore history. We lead the world and so we should. You need Cllrs and MPs one and all to come on board and be proud of an offshore wind farm - playing our part, carrying our weight, in this enormous global struggle.

And for the record EDF Navitus plans and surveys are all on files with Crown Agency and DEFRA. Contrary to the caption below the Echo photo Navitus plans were not rejected by government, they were turned down in the face of high profile BCP political opposition led by Tory MPs and Tory Cllrs.

That is not the population of our towns.

Below letter as sent in to Echo pointing out the vast damage the tourist industry does to our towns - hugely damaging industry to be protected at all costs including destroying proposals for a benign offshore wind farm delivering clean energy for decades to come. 

Jeff Williams
Parkstone



24th August - 2022

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"Well said Adrian Chapmanlaw launching a petition to put Navitus wind farm back onto public agendas.

It is deeply tragic for all our towns the prospect for this offshore wind farm - 200 turbines nine miles out at sea generating near 1,000 MWatts clean sustainable energy for decades to come - was in 2015 demolished by waves of hysterical over-reaction.

Look in detail at the many far-reaching assessments and surveys there was not one credible reason why the wind farm should not have gone ahead. I read all the lengthy Environmental Impact reports and no-where did it say the wind farm would impact adversely on tourism to the extent visitor numbers would fall.

What it did say was that during the two years installation period there would be some disruption in coastal areas.

But the huge vast benefits how can we possibly see-off a desperately needed sustainable offshore wind farm because there will be some inconvenience during the construction period, for the largest part far out at sea?

And as for the argument in general "protecting tourism" we are here talking about a mass tourist industry leaving us with uncountable tons of litter on our beaches every summer, overwhelming our towns, gridlock roads, cars in their thousands blocking whole coastal roads.

Are we saying that is not massive negative impact on our towns?

And worse again Cllrs speaking of the "tranquillity of our towns" with dozens of roaring ear splitting 105dB military jets flying over our towns every summer but low noise level 15dB wind turbines - far out at sea - the world will come to an end.

The arguments along these lines to see off Navitus beyond risible.

The truth and fact is wind farms six or more miles out at sea will not be heard along the shore. That is a proven fact over many decades. And visibility of turbine masks, vanishingly small on the horizon.

Yet cabinet Cllr Mike Green tells us on a web-site he considers one of his greatest achievements "saving Bournemouth from the threat of Navitus".

And who Cllr Green saves us from the mass tourist industry, let alone our soaring unstable climate with more and more violently extreme weather crying out for us to make large scale changes?

Every good reason on planet earth this wind farm should now go ahead, as Rampion offshore wind farm went ahead and has been running ten miles off-shore Brighton for five years. And likewise another forty major wind farms around the UK coast. Costs ever falling for the clean energy we desperately need."

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