Global warming

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I have given this a great deal of thought.

Why blame the governments of this world when we are all guilty of polluting.

It takes logical sense.

How many items does an average household use in one year of the following:

1. fly sprays;

2. insecticides;

3. petrol cars (not including electric cars);

4. weed sprays;

5. spray paint cans.

Everything in a house is made up of toxic materials. Your chairs and couches are full of foam rubber.

You get scumbags pouring toxic stuff into streams. Some people have emptied grass clippings into streams in past years.

So everyone on earth has contributed one way or the other in this world’s decline.

Don’t fool yourselves into thinking this world will heal itself and that the ozone has healed itself. That is wishful thinking.

The young ones of today are far more for action to wipe out pollution than the ones who just talk about it and do nothing.

The evidence is coming back and kicking mankind’s butts with violent storms and earthquakes in various places around the world.

Isn’t that a wake-up call?

Yet countries still have coal fires.

Even electric cars can be an issue. Once the batteries have died is there a recycling factory to make new ones from the old ones?

Look at the issue about recyclable stuff going to the landfill .

I keep hearing people talk about it. If you want to recycle, make things out of plastic milk containers etc.

Let’s stop blaming others and start to set an example for the young children who are pushing for a clean planet.

Why use sprays to kill spiders and other insects. Children are trying to study insects and the adults are killing the insects.

Doesn’t anyone take notice of David Attenborough with his programmes?

We need insects and wild animals. They make up the chain of life. Once they go we go as well.

Man world-wide is responsible for pollution, including me driving my car. And many more are driving petrol cars because the electric cars are so expensive to buy.

Plus more and more petrol imports are flowing into New Zealand.

So don’t blame t he governments for pollution when we all have a part in killing our planet. By the way folks, action is needed. Let’s not put things off until 2050.

Action needs to be done now, not later.

The young people in their 20s to 50s must tell the world we don’t need fossil fuel for our electric power stations.

Peter Wells