Green Train – Musings from Brushbail

I Brushbail am amused and bemused by your endless machinations on this planet about green and environmental issues. Let me try to understand. Green issues are important to you so you start by writing very thick (it seems to me) reports, and the thicker they are the better they are because these issues are complex. The next stage is to hold an expensive conference and invite world leaders to fly as far as possible and spend a week in a luxury hotel. All seems fair as it is an important issue and these top people I would imagine are experts in biology, zoology, climate, chemistry with many years practical experience of the issues, well meaning people.

Next, I understand you need a strategy, then a policy and this involves many scores of hours of meetings and more paperwork, but then I get confused, as those writing the policies advising the experts are administrators. On Zog, the what you call ‘people’ running the ship are those that know how to do it, but in your world the further you are away from a subject the more you seem to be responsible for it.

Next come what you call the NGO’s or non governmental sectors (hey I am getting into the jargon) who seem to be the great and the good who have high moral authority, and who organise their own conferences and write lots more reports, which seem even thicker than the other ones.

A lot of energy and time and resources is then spent by all three sides arguing over policy and strategy, which if I wasn’t a naïve visitor from another planet, I could have mistaken as being a truggle for power and control.

Then there are the ordinary people who don’t seem to benefit from any of this…those who seem to work hard, not be able to afford well insulated homes, organic food, low pollution cars and low carbon holidays as it’s much cheaper to fly than rent a cottage for a week by the sea.
Then there are those who have very little, including food.
How do these strategies, policies, conferences, and networking help them? Am I missing something here that, as a Zogian, I simply don’t understand? Looking in as an outsider you are a planet of the haves and the have nots. If you all worked together, shared resources more wisely and wasted very little and reused most things, life could be more satisfying for you all, and if everyone was healthier and more content there would be less illness and strife.

Then there are the ordinary people who don’t seem to benefit from any of this…those who seem to work hard, not be able to afford well insulated homes, organic food, low pollution cars and low carbon holidays as it’s much cheaper to fly than rent a cottage for a week by the sea. Then there are those who have very little, including food.

How do these strategies, policies, conferences, and networking help them? Am I missing something here that, as a Zogian, I simply don’t understand? Looking in as an outsider you are a planet of the haves and the have nots. If you all worked together, shared resources more wisely and wasted very little and reused most things, life could be more satisfying for you all, and if everyone was healthier and more content there would be less illness and strife.

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