As for the end of the world, there is much thinking going on at high level, with a sense of urgency.

There was a bit of a hoo-haa today. A well-known group (who will remain nameless, as I seem to have been a bit down on them lately, despite admiring a lot of what they do) decided to hijack a certain speech. It seems it was because they a) didn't like what was going to be said, and b) were not allowed a demanded (with threats) 10 minutes to make their own speech at the same venue. Hmmn. Good job other liitle tinkers don't issue such 'or else' threats to get their way, or where would we be?

Anyway, this speech was by our PM, and was pretty important, being about the way our energy policy is shaping.

I was tracking it down when lo, it was delivered to me by the Daily Mail. I presumed in full transcript, but possibly not. Hard to say. Let me know if there is/was more than this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=370076&in_page_id=1770

So I read it, and decided to tell them what I thought.... about the speech, which no one seemed to care about, as opposed to the protest, about which a lot of folk did. I guess that says a lot in its own right. 

In case the DM doesn't fancy sharing what I had to say, here it is anyway:

"Short speech. Was that it? Interesting that so far we have about a dozen comments on the 'disruption' and few, until now, here.

 

There's a lot of passion flying about, and stances being defended, but it remains hard to judge on the numbers so far. There are a few in this speech, but nothing that helps move my opinion. 'Back on the agenda'. 'Re-thinking'. 'Sense of urgency'. 'A review of progress'. 'Publishing a policy statement'. Woo-hoo. A bit on what's stopping; not much on plain facts of what can work or how 'we' play our part.

 

All I can see is a growing population requiring ever more 'stuff', which will need ever more 'juice' to operate. Cars, planes, boilers... things with plugs on.

 

It needs a courageous politician, or one not so worried about being re-elected, to lay it out and tell folk they can't have it all, and/or they can't have it cheap.

 

Following the handling of civil service pensions issue recently, I'm not holding my breath - which I might soon be required to do :)"

I think we'll just keep on plugging away at our little bit of doing.