LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fighting for viable future for generations to come

To Martin Fletcher, I don’t blame everything on the Tories, just the things they are responsible for, which are more than enough. And at 68 you are the generation to see the end of the good times, the beginnings belong to the one before.

Also, in passing, I don’t know much of our new Mayor as he was not my choice, but as I’ve written many times before, I voted in the election and so I’m entitled to complain about him. You and all other non-voters are not.

As to Clive Phillips, The only way we will settle the argument about Covid vaccinations is for me to keep taking my boosters and him his parasitic worm disease cure, and see which of us dies first (of Covid or Omicron that is, any other cause and all bets are off).

And where does he get this drivel about shoe box houses and racism? What the Greens want and always have wanted are well designed, properly insulated, cheap green energy powered housing with open spaces and adequate local facilities. The shoe boxes are already with us, courtesy of speculative housing, local council planning departments, and Conservative self regulation laws. Other housing, what other housing?

The Green party’s wishes are inclusive of all housing, planned or existing, which means all properties shall be brought up to standard,nothing less. And racism, nothing to do with housing, unless like Priti Patel you would like to house all racial minorities in Napier Barracks-style concentration camps, except of course the ones in the Conservative Party.

Next, ah yes, airports closed by 2050 — would this be the UK Fires Group idea, transferred to the Green Party in Clive’s imagination, or maybe the Green New Deal of some years ago (also not ours), which was a scenario if alternative fuels could not be made available, and is no longer on the table unless by 2050 climate change has not been controlled and no alternative available, by which time it would be too late anyway.

The next question, how would we exist without Boeing 747 cargo planes to carry our perishable goods? I can answer that one quite easily. Surface transport, refrigerated cargo ships and railway trucks as we did before the 1960s and still do, end of problem.

The next one is the real laugh. A group of idiots calling themselves “The Tyre Extinguishers”, and yes they exist, are turning SUVs into death traps by deflating their tyres and so endangering the lives of their drivers and occupants, and in Clive Phillips’ head they have to be recruited by the Green Party. Sorry, Clive, not ours, we deal in life not death, the real traders in death are your sponsors, the fossil fuel cartels and the climate change deniers, the self-made killers of the world.

Finally, he asks since when did birds have calendars? Millennia before man appeared, and even longer before the Babylonians and Sumatrans invented our calendars, hours and minutes, the natural world had planet wide calendars, clocks and atlases by which all living things lived their lives. Animals, birds and all sentient life knew the best time to breed, to hibernate, to migrate, trees and green things knew when the time was right to wake and bloom, signs no longer obvious to mankind as we have already destroyed 80 per cent of the diversity we need for our survival and from which we could have read the warnings had we so chose.

When this year desert locusts migrated 1,000 miles further south than ever known, they didn’t consult a fancy brochure, they did so because the climate, the humidity, the air currents and the atmosphere, things that we in our arrogance have by our behaviour altered, told them that was where they should be.

By our reckless misuse of the world’s resources we have turned forward the natural clock by untold ages but have left undone the checks and balances needed to control the change.

Many years ago, I was taught by my maternal grandfather how to read the signs of nature, and I still use them to confirm the data that I read from multiple sources. No “indoctrination”, I leave that to the lackeys of the climate change deniers, the fossil fuel pushers and the other future “richest corpses in the cemetery”.

My fight is for a viable future for the generations still to come.

Charles David Foulstone,       

Rotherham Green Party