On the seventh day of the week, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the Millenium,
BLACKOUT BRITAIN is calling for you to join in with BLACKOUT LIVE, BLACKING OUT in response to LIVE EARTH.
Do you seriously believe that an international series of widely televised rock concerts is going to save the Planet ?
No matter whether you do or you don't, it'll be good fun.
If you like the idea of a global party, turn on a TV and turn off every other electrical appliance or machine in the house.
If you think the idea of a global party is rubbish, turn off the TV and go and do something more green, more BLACKOUT instead.
TV's bad for your soul, anyway.
So, for those who party with the television switched on : after you've had the biggest feel-bad, feel-good party ever in your entire life, consider these quick and easy (are you sure ?) personal actions to get global policy on turning back Climate Change :-
1. Stop Shopping
Commercially traded manufactured goods are the main reason for economic development and environmental destruction around the world. Just keep your money in your wallet.
2. Stop Borrowing
Citizens in debt are paying back big-time in terms of interest. This is creating a massive injection of wealth into banks, and this is turned into bank loans made to private enterprises that continue the "growth model" of economy. Your debt equals environmental destruction.
3. Stop Meat-eating
Eating animals is perhaps the second largest impact that your diet has on the ecology of the biosphere. Become a vegetarian, or an ovo-lacto-pesco vegetarian at the very least.
4. Stop Travelling
Tired of arguments about train versus plane versus car ? In the end, the biggest factor is : how far do you actually travel ? Move less by machine and more by muscle.
5. Stop Burning
Cut your energy use. Full-stop.
6. Stop Importing
Cut the food miles, the product miles, the clothing miles. Buy local, live local. Grow your own - and I mean food.
7. Stop Moaning
Stop blaming other people and governments and corporations/companies and get on with democratic change.
* Issue your local council with a challenge to demonstrate sound Carbon policy.
* Write a bag of letters to MPs and important rock stars.
* Join a local allotment scheme.
* Ride with the local cycling club.
* Push some buttons. Make some noise. Be irritating and get expressing.
We clearly need an international treaty to reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and everyone and every organisation needs to do their part.
And we need to call for it.
Energy Rations are the future, people. Make that call.
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